My Decent into the Icy Water Tank 30 ft below into one of Earth's Sacred Sites
- Polly Behringer
- Jan 29
- 6 min read
Experiences don't just reframe how we look at the world. The elements of water, wind, fire and Earth involved may be the catalyst of an experience that changes us. This form of physiological activation that happens below the skin may activate past lives or reframe memories we have not been able to heal from as of yet. The trauma is stored not just in memories but also physically and neurologically in the body; and we are complicating our innate ability to heal.
Life Reframing Experiences
Everything about my studies in Coimbatore, Southern India still sends me into wonderment. My journey there... while there... from there to Nepal... back to India... and back to Oklahoma changed the trajectory of my life. It destroyed relationships and built a foundation of self-love that led me to hear... a place of understanding personal value.
Why I'm beginning to share my personal stories in my blogs?
I say to people, I wouldn't go to a dentist with bad teeth... or a hair dresser with bad hair. I don't take relationship advice from people that say they give great advice but I struggle to take my own advice. How do you know it's great, if you haven't tested it?
Most people that stumble across my website or into my classes, don't know that I'm living the walk... That this walk was a long and arduous one...One that brings me to a place of knowledge, training and skills. So, that I may be able to share with you what I've learned, hold space and classes from a level of expertise while I integrate my own advice, guidance and knowledge. We are all students of life, I just don't plan on repeating cycles over and over out of fear of change.
I want you to trust the process. But in order to do that, you have to trust the person leading you through the process.
Profound Experiences Shape Who we Are
One of the most profound excursions (to me) during my intensive, immersion studies in India led me to saying yes. Saying yes is also saying No to something else. I said no to fear and yes to the vibration inside of me saying...
Do it! Don't miss this opportunity!
I walked 30 feet down a steep incline of 32-tiny steps soaking wet surrounded by granite to a basin of icy waters of the Chandrakund.
I was wet, because you're required to get undressed and rinse off in these weird tiny open stalls. I remember looking at a board with all these bindis on them. After the rinse, you put on an orange hospital looking canvas gown that hung heavy and probably weighed a few pounds.
I edge down the tiny steps with two fellow students, while the rest of the small class waited along the pools edge of the basin watching us descend. Before stepping into the water, there was a moment of hesitation... my toe submerged and I felt an immediate chill move through me from the icy, icy, icy, icy, icy cold water.
An opportunity to say yes to healing my body... my heart... my mind... Well, I was all in. The icy waters of Chandrakund (or Chandra Kund) is an energized water body framed by large granite stones, a painted mural overhead on the ceiling.
In the center of the pool of water features a specially consecrated Rasa lingham (solidified mercury) submerged in 4-foot-deep, icy-cold water. I read that a dip in this pool is intended to straighten pranic (energy which flows in currents in and around the body) imbalances and enhance a person's spiritual receptivity. Only women were allowed to enter this pool of water, the Chandrakund, where if I remember correctly correlates with the moon... lunar, feminine energy in spiritual circles. Men go into a separate basin area where I've been told there is a sun, the solar energy or masculine.
Taking a dip in these energized water bodies straightens out pranic imbalances, enhancing physiological and psychological wellbeing as well as heightening spiritual receptivity. Taking a walk through this pool is said to have tremendous healing power from the waters. And thousands of people attested to this every year. And this was the main reason, I said yes...
My Life was Burning Down
I was up for any form of healing. My heart felt like it was cracking open, dried up like desiccation cracks of the desert floor. I was sleeping on average of 3 hours a night for over 25 days and I was blacking out during practice sessions. To say, the studies I embarked on was burning away the life I had been living up to that point is an accurate description... and I think my teachers knew this - as I was placed in dorm room aptly named tapas, a sanskrit word that means 'to burn'. All the false identities I was cloaking myself with to stay the same... to stay small, were burning away... and my life as I knew it... along with it.
Icy Waters is What I needed
The basin of water in the Chandrakund felt artic cold. I'm assuming the Artic is this cold, I've never been... But the cold of that water reminds me of the night I huddled sitting on the side of the mountain in Nepal. Mount Everest felt too far to touch but close enough to feel its chill.... and she was chilly. My body began to slow... my voice... blinking my eyes... It felt like I was moving in slow motion, and I was.
I've never experience water at this temperature ever; even the cold plunge I took in Mallorca, an island in the Mediterranean Sea.
The water is in the Chandrakund is used to melt away karmic blocks before entering another structure that made me feel I entered a movie between the original Blade Runner, The Fifth Element and an Indian Jones movie... surreal... mystical and life altering. (another blog, another time)
Was it Worth It?
Did I feel a difference after the icy waters? Yes, immediately... There's a large mercury structure in the middle of the waters and in order to get out you had to pass under this heavy waterfall of icier than icy water splashing down on you as you traversed up the side of the wall and up the stairs to exit...It felt like being pelted with ice. I felt the combination of ready to get out but not ready to go through the falling icy water. It's a moment of making another choice. It's a moment of redefining. It's a moment when your brain has already began to make shifts and changes; releasing stuck behaviors into a form of resilience... That's holistic biohacking!
Reframing Your Life and Self-Perception
Trauma often distorts how we see ourselves; doubting our worth, feeling powerless, or viewing life through a lens of fear. Biohacking can assist in shifting this narrative as we begin to our path to empowerment through Self-Experimentation; a difficult but worthy journey.
Whether we like it or not, we will transform... into the person we want to become... or a regression of the image we planted as seeds within our minds as children. I challenge you to tap into that inner-child and ask yourself... Who do you want to be? How would you want to be remembered as? How do others see you; are you the reflection of the version you believe you are?
The Oklahoma Biohacking Class was a Success!
Join our next monthly in-person class (held in Oklahoma) as we tap into an area 100% of us struggle with. Did you know healing this area allows you to tap into a form of freedom that will set you free? I'm excited as I've already begun this journey; and I'm manifesting the life I want... the life I put on hold for a year to heal and let go of areas that needed to be released. I'm excited about this next class, UNLOCKING YOUR BODY'S FULL POTENTIAL (Biohacking & Holistic Healing)
My Thoughts
Biohacking is how I've been living my life. I didn't know this; until I began looking at a way to define how I move through this world, why I choose to do what I do and teach what I teach. I'm coming from a holistic approach and excited to explore this path more and more!
Sincerely,
Polly Behringer
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