You Shine the Sun

Inspired by Alan Watts

What if you weren’t just living in the world, but made of it?

Alan Watts, the great philosopher of interconnection, once reminded us that we aren’t separate from the universe—we are woven from its very fabric. And more than that: we are active participants in its unfolding.

He famously said, “You are shining the sun.”
Not metaphorically. Energetically.

Let’s trace that:
Plants take in sunlight.
We eat plants.
And that fuel powers every cell of our being—our breath, our thoughts, our motion.
So yes, quite literally: you are solar-powered.

THE SOLAR PLEXUS : YOUR INNER SUN

At the center of the body, right behind the navel, is the solar plexus—a nerve bundle that radiates out like the sun. The word solar isn’t poetic by accident. This is our energy center. In yogic philosophy, it’s the seat of Manipura chakra—our willpower, our fire, our light.

When we move through practice, we don’t just stretch muscles—we engage and energize from that radiant center.

Every time you lift your chest in Cobra, or twist in Revolved Triangle, or balance in Warrior III, your body isn’t just performing a shape—
It’s radiating energy outward from its solar core.

LIGHT BECOMES MOVEMENT

Here’s the wild part:
Your ability to move your body in practice is a direct result of ancient sunlight.

Every Down Dog, every breath in Child’s Pose, every deep lunge—
Is powered by food that was once a plant…
And that plant captured light from the sun.

That energy moved into your body.
And now it moves through it.

Yoga becomes a solar ritual.

RADIATING IN ASANA

Next time you hold a pose, ask yourself:
Where am I radiating?

In Mountain Pose, energy flows from crown to heel, from fingertips to feet.
In Warrior III Pose, the lifted leg doesn’t just rest—it reaches, expands, glows.
In Savasana, stillness isn’t emptiness—it’s the soft shimmer of energy, settled but alive.

Our poses are not simply held.
They radiate.

Not just upward. Not just outward.
But in all directions—from the solar core.

YOU ARE THE LIGHT

So the next time you step on your mat, try this subtle shift:

Don’t think of practice as doing yoga to your body.
Think of it as expressing light through it.

You don’t have to know how to do that.
Just like you don’t have to know how to shine the sun.
You simply allow.

You radiate.
You expand.
You are the sun, in motion.

Let your next practice be a quiet celebration of that.
You, the solar being.
You, the radiant one.