Tangled Threads: Ropes, Ritual, and Reclaiming the Body
Tangled Threads: Ropes, Ritual, and Reclaiming the Body Lately, I’ve been noticing a shift, women talking more openly about desire, embodiment, and the reclamation of pleasure. Not in the hushed tones of past generations, where sexuality was either whispered about or dissected clinically, but with a raw, unapologetic hunger for something deeper. Recently, I came across a woman teaching a course on sexual freedom. She spoke about ropes and binding, not as a tool of submission, but as a practice of awakening. Of feeling held, of surrendering control in a way that is chosen rather than taken. The idea sat in my mind like a stone in a river, slowly being shaped by the current of my own experiences. In Ayurveda, the body is sacred, a temple. But like any sacred space, it must be entered with reverence. Too often, we are taught that desire is something to be repressed, ignored, or, at best, controlled. We are conditioned to shrink, to tighten, to silence the natural pulse of longing th...