Parvati Magazine December 2014/January 2015: Consequence/Beginnings | Page 23

WELLNESS
to develop YEM: Yoga as
Energy Medicine and my
musical creations.
I would remain immobilized in bed for over three
months, unable to get
up even for the most basic things. What followed
was a rearranging of everything I knew, a “karma
fast forward”. I was challenged to let go of that
which no longer served
and learn to absolutely
trust a higher power for
everything. When you realize that you may never
walk again or do the simplest things we take for
granted, your ego dies
and something else is
born.
I saw my body as floating
molecules held together
by my perceptions and
karmas. The injured area
was a energy mass that
appeared fixed due to
my beliefs. As I opened to
absolute possibility, I got
out of the way of nature’s
innate healing power.
I dove psychically inward
and traveled down my
spine. At its base, I saw the

blue whale with nearly no
heartbeat. I watched it
and my area of injury with
presence. As the whale’s
heartbeat grew stronger,
I witnessed little ripples of
life-force wave down my
legs. Eventually, I could
feel and wiggle my toes.
Over months, a blue orb
grew to envelop me from
my feet eventually to my
head, as the energy wave
flowed up my spine. I was
becoming the whale. As
the blue light and wave
grew stronger, I could roll
from side to side, then
onto my stomach. As I said
in this month’s YEM article,
there was no point where
I was able to do anything
that was not in the wave’s
flow. If I pushed, the consequence was searing
pain.
Following the wave, I
learned to push myself
up from my tummy, from
which the impulse to
crawl arose. I had grown
from ocean creature, to
a land animal onto all
fours. Four months later,
I emerged onto my feet
and had to learn how to

walk again – this time over
a whole new axis.
My recovery was considered medically miraculous. Once ambulatory, I
went into my studio and
out poured a collection
of songs in profound gratitude. This body of work
has just taken shape into
a multidimensional healing sound bath, an album to be released in the
spring of 2015.
The blue whale continues
to be a powerful presence in my life. It inspired
my trip to the Arctic, the
amazing Inuit elders I met,
the spinal injury and healing that followed, the
musical album, and my
new show. Most recently,
it sparked the creation
of Parvati.org, a not-forprofit organization that
aims to stop the seismic
bombing planned for this
spring in Canada’s Arctic
Oceans and protect our
planet for generations to
come.

Parvati Devi is the editor-in-chief of Parvati Magazine. In addition to
being an internationally acclaimed Canadian singer, songwriter, producer
and performer, she is a yoga teacher and holistic educator. Having
studied yoga and meditation since 1987, Parvati developed her own
yoga teaching style called YEMTM Yoga as Energy Medicine. Her current
shows, “YIN: Yoga In the Nightclub” and “Natamba” bring forward a
conscious energy into the pop mainstream. Her book “Confessions of a
Former Yoga Junkie” is a road map to a revolutionary life makeover for
sincere spiritual seekers.
For more information on Parvati, please visit www.parvati.tv.