Grounding the Spin: Crafting a Flower of Life Portal Rug for the Unwind Machine

I recently created an 8-foot Flower of Life portal rug to sit beneath Benjamin Farley’s Unwind Machine from Unchained Earth. The Unwind Machine is a 9-foot geodesic dome designed for suspension, inversion, and spin—helping the body release tension and the mind access new states of balance and awareness.

What is the Unwind Machine (Unchained Earth)

Here’s a breakdown of what the Unwind Machine is, how it works, and what it aims to facilitate:

• It’s a geodesic steel dome, 108″ in diameter. That’s large enough to allow full range of motion and inversion under safe boundaries. Unchained Earth Gear

• There’s an attachment from the dome’s apex: you can suspend from the top bar with your hands, or invert using gravity boots (boots not included). Unchained Earth Gear

• It supports up to 900 lbs of capacity—so structurally quite robust. Unchained Earth Gear

• It’s meant to support not just physical flexibility or inversion, but deeper somatic, vestibular, and consciousness work: the motion, the disorientation, the spin all open up different ways of being in and with the body.

  
  

In use, people report that spinning, inverting, and being held by gravity in new ways shakes loose tensions, shifts perspective, and allows subtle energetic work to happen.

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While the dome itself invites expansion and rhythmic flow, I felt the space beneath it had potential to hold intention. The Flower of Life is one of the most recognized patterns in sacred geometry, symbolizing unity, harmony, and the cycles of creation. By translating it into a large rug, I created both a grounding field and a visual compass for anyone working in the machine.

The combination has been powerful: the dome opens the body to new movement while the rug anchors the experience, offering a clear center point to return to after spinning or inverting. Beyond comfort and safety, the portal rug turns each session into a kind of ritual, where motion, geometry, and intention work together to create deep unwinding.

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  Conclusion

  The pairing of the Flower of Life portal rug and the Unwind Machine transforms movement into ritual, grounding into expansion. It’s more than equipment and more than art—it’s a portal for deep release and alignment.

  
  

  If you’d like to bring this experience into your own space, you can commission a custom portal rug from me and explore Benjamin Farley’s Unwind Machines at Unchained Earth. Together, they create a sanctuary where body, mind, and spirit can truly unwind.

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