Why?

Well, the blastocyst is incredible. We all have cellular memory of being a blastocyst trying to implant on the uterine wall.  We all have been successful in this journey - fully met and embraced by another being.  We have the knowing of how to be fully open in relationship, exquisitely met and nourished.

The pattern of containment and protection around vulnerability is similar to the embryonic stage in which the zona pellucida is present. I learned about this term while studying with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, the creator of Body-Mind Centering. The presence of the zona pellucida marks a stage of development where protection around the embryo is necessary. Its impenetrable membrane acts like a jacket for the embryo and contains the dividing cells after fertilization and before implantation. There comes a time between four to seven days when the membrane breaks down making it possible for the blastocyst to hatch out of the zona pellucida and implant into the uterine wall.

I feel like I am hatching out of the zona pellucida.

I have been stuck for most of my life in the memory of the zona pellucida stage of development (protective- separate). Drawing the blastocyst and embodying the memory of the open, porous searching for the uterine wall is creating more choice for me and a re-membered way of being in relationship to the world around me.