Sacred Rage

Sacred Rage is a primal scream in our cellular memory from our grandmother’s silence and the systemic oppressive structures infecting our psyche. The most common repressed energy in people socialized as women is sexual life force. Thousands of years of pulling away from nature, of religious and cultural controlling of female-born bodies, and of trying to dominate anything associated with nature, including Indigenous people and animals, make sexual life force, passion, and sensuality profoundly unsafe. 

Sacred Rage that is held in body-based awareness and consciously moved through physical movement, nature, community, song, drumming, screaming, and nature ceremonies can become sacred activism, creativity, clearing deep trauma, and opening sexual life force. 

Unlike anger, Sacred Rage is a feeling of your skin crawling, an energy of unrest that you will wake up with in the morning, and a volcanic intensity. Sacred Rage is a primal inward nagging angst that can be described as “I wanna burn down or smash anything around me and I am not sure why.” 

Anger is a vital tool to becoming aware of one’s feelings or a need not yet known. However, Sacred Rage has no direct need or feeling attached. It is an entity within itself that wants to express through, to burn off the chronic miserable withholding of one’s essential life force. 

Sacred Rage is a sacred force that burns our unworthiness. Shame, feeling broken, or unworthiness is a well known symptom of unhealed trauma. 

Steps to Moving Sacred Rage

1. Open the awareness in your legs. Do some form of squat and track the sensations in your pelvis, legs, and feet. As you feel the Sacred Rage sense, imagine letting this energy drain and compost into the Earth. It is also essential you stay in your “window of tolerance” as you feel this energy. Please reference wecoregulate.com for more information.

2. Begin to also move the energy up out of your eyes, mouth, and throat. Screaming, growling, singing along to a heavy metal song are very helpful.

3. Let this energy have a third form of expression such as breaking dishes, weights, smashing pumpkins, or punching a pillow

4. Continue to track your body sensations and stay in current time and space as you slowly move through the steps.