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4 Real-time embodiment tools mini-workshop [VIDEO]
In this very practical, but playful session, you’ll learn: – 4 real-time, immediately useful tools for deeper embodiment and enhanced sensuality – How to use your bum to stop overthinking (yep!) – How to seduce someone whilst drinking from your waterbottle #skills – How your eyes are part of your nervous system and how to use them to self-regulate. – How…
Read MoreYou’re welcome to fail
WHY DO WE THINK WE HAVE TO ALREADY BE GOOD AT THE THING WE WANT TO LEARN…? ‘I’d like to try yoga but I can’t even touch my toes.’ ‘I want to try bellydance classes but my hips are so stiff. ‘ ‘I’m not fit enough to join that fitness class.’ ‘I want to…
Read MoreFeel good for the benefit of all beings!
A little while ago some friends who also happen to be kickass business women + mums, and I went for a seaside getaway. We were chatting about how often women feel guilty for not being productive and getting more done. The belief that personal achievement & serving others = worthiness is pretty hardwired for many.…
Read MoreWhat you can do with RESISTANCE instead of pushing it (unsuccessfully) away
RESISTANCE. DO YOU HAVE IT? HATE IT? EMBRACE IT? I used to think the things I loved should always come naturally. Those classes, practices or people that left me healthy and inspired I should always feel a natural inclination towards….Lol. I was wrong!And to be honest, I have spent SO much time over the years justifying,…
Read More“be more feminine”
“Oh you just need to be more feminine / work on your femininity” “You’re too much in your masculine” …please no more of that bullshit! That just leaves women feeling bad about themselves, that they are not enough and thinking there’s yet another standard they need to meet! Embodying the feminine is an inner gesture…
Read More‘MASCULINE’ AND ‘FEMININE’ HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH GENDER
Everyone is inherently both and cultivating the embodied expression of both creates a well-rounded, integrated, high functioning human being. In Shiva Shakti Dance we explore the embodiment of both the ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ polarities within us: These are not derivatives of gender, stereotypes or cultural roles but expressions of the play of consciousness (Shiva) and…
Read MoreEmbodying Your Sensual Shakti [VIDEO]
In this interview as part of the Embodied Experts Summit with Jenna Ward, we discuss: – the journey from rigidity, numbness and being stuck in the head to sensual embodiment – experiencing arousal as a way of being – making love with life – dancing as a form of devotion – how intimacy with yourself…
Read MoreThe smooth edge of your hips
Women’s hips are a source of tremendous creativity, pleasure and power. We can literally hold life, nourish and birth a new being in our hips. Isn’t that incredible!? The waters of our sacrum are magnetic to our desires, essential to our ability to flow and receive the fruits of our yearnings. Yet, as women our…
Read MoreHow does sensuality & spirituality play together?
Do you ever have that experience of looking into the mirror and getting so caught up in the image of yourself that you become consumed with thoughts and stop feeling yourself? Or eating a bag of popcorn / tub of ice-cream / block of chocolate and suddenly there’s none left but you notice that you hardly tasted or felt what you ate.Or perhaps your were touching your body or someone was touching your body but you didn’t really ‘feel’ it. A kind of going through the motions that left you actua […]
Read MoreMind the gap!
Modern woman’s life is full, multifaceted and places us in many different roles. Mothers, wifes, lovers, business owners, carers, team leaders, mentors, students, activists…If you’re anything like me, you spend a good chunk of your day getting things done. Planning, ticking things off a list, focusing, directing people, organising, providing structure and support for others.And these are great skills to have and cultivate.The only problem is all this kind of mental stimulation squeezes the ene […]
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