As you move through each exercise in the Honoring Your Belly practice, your body configures and animates an ancient symbol of the Sacred Feminine. As Marija Gimbutas illustrates in The Language of the Goddess, women and men have incorporated these seed symbols—the glyphs shown here—into cave paintings and engravings, bone and clay figurines, and ceramic designs since the beginning of human consciousness.

Once you've learned each of the belly-energizing exercises, this spiral of glyphs will show you the order in which to practice the moves. It will al so link you with all the women through time who have activated their belly's sacred power with movement and breath. And it will remind you of the timeless wisdom concentrated in your body's center.