Returning to Source
Turtles on Ostional Beach, Nosara, Costa Rica
Awareness of the inner body is consciousness remembering its origin and returning to the Source.
-Eckhart Tolle
It’s the time of year in Costa Rica when the rain falls daily. The plants grow before our eyes, and the rivers well making the daily commute more of an adventure. The rainy season is not for the faint of heart.
I love this time of year. It makes me feel alive and reminds me that I have grit. I realize how intrinsically connected I am with the earth’s cycles, birth and death.
Last week, we decided to get up and personal with birth. I took the girls to see the Arribada. Arribada is when thousands of female sea turtles collectively return to the beach where they were born to lay their own eggs, birthing new life.
The sun was setting as we walked out on the black-sand beach. Through the sunset mist, we watched a mama turtle pull her way from the ocean onto the sand. Each of her labored movements was filled with the single purpose of cultivating her species. At this raw moment, she became a living legacy.
We walked further until the beach was covered with majestic slow-moving mounds. Two hundred thousand turtles had arrived in that single day. They swam from Baja, California, in the North and Peru to the south. Tired from their travels, these mama turtles emerge from the water in a deep birthing trance.
After the light disappeared, more and more turtles flooded the beach, moving purposefully through the sand and towards us from all sides. I felt part of a greater cosmic moment standing amid this primal communal ritual.
Each turtle dug a hole using its back flippers. Then, each laid around one hundred ping pong ball-sized eggs. As we watched each turtle, we could feel their purpose. The intense focus was palpable and otherworldly.
The turtles bury their eggs like their ancestors before them. Then, as if listening to an internal rhythm, they use their whole body and flippers in a circular dance to camouflage the nest. The drumbeat of hundreds of turtles pounding the sand with their leather flippers fills the air.
Amazingly, these turtles can carry sperm inside of them for years then choose when it is time to become pregnant. Once they choose the time, they are ready to give birth within 72 hours. At that point, thousands of turtles collectively turn their attention toward ushering forth a new generation. I am awed and humbled by the experience.
As we walk back in the dark, trying to avoid being overrun by turtles, I realize the grander connection of this moment to the consciousness of society.
We have hybernated for a few years, holding the seeds of our dreams and desires in our bodies. Now there seems to be a collective awakening. Many feel a pull toward something - even if they don’t know what that looks like. In my work with women, I have noticed a deep and collective desire to birth something new.
This time reminds me of when I gave birth to each of my daughters. There were nine months of anxious anticipation that I was doing it right. But when the moment came to bring them into this world, it was undeniable. There was nothing that I could do but surrender my body to the force of the source surging through me.
Right now, many of us are being called to return to our source, to listen, and to respond. If you feel this call, you are not alone, and the feeling can’t be ignored. This time it is not something that can be left to “someone who knows better.” YOU are being asked to usher in the new humanity and to create a legacy, unlike anything we have known before.
You are the one that is feeling this call.
Returning to your source:
Recently Patrick and I have added breathwork to our morning practice. Breathwork is transformational.
This is a lite taste of what the breath can do:
Put some energizing background music on your headphones.
Lay on your back.
Put an eye mask on your eyes.
Breath into your stomach
Breath into your chest
Let it go through your mouth
Repeat at a steady pace for one song.
After the song is complete, breathe normally in
and out through your nose.
You may feel a flood of energy or a deep presence
in the mind and body.
Follow with meditation.
Cameron lives in Costa Rica with her husband Patrick and her two girls. Cameron coaches women in connecting more deeply with their inner guidance and innate wisdom.
