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I didn't want to be in my body for a very long time. I used to think I wasn't good enough. Not beautiful enough. Not enough for the standards that I were taught to set for myself. I had deep abandonment issues from a tumultuous childhood, and profound wounding from having to prove myself over and over again in order for me to feel loved and accepted. But my journey to my own freedom, liberation and decolonisation, started when I utilised dance and embodiment to connect me to my deeper knowing and intuition. As well as my ancestors, gods, goddesses and elements that are of Love, Light and Wisdom. I now use dance to invoke these supportive and loving entities. I now use dance to commune, with forces that are both big and unseen, that have been there all along, wanting me to win in Life, and always.

Through this 3-month Program, I shall teach you tools and techniques on how to embody different archetypes and art modalities that can help you liberate yourself from childhood trauma and pain, unleash indoctrinated guilt and shame stuck in your body, as well as find acceptance, healing and empowerment in the skin, flesh, bones, body and being that you are currently in. And to truly make you feel that you are not alone in this path. They said it takes a village to raise a child. I say, it is never too late to re-raise and heal the child in you that was betrayed or abandoned or told that she can never be good enough. We will use dance, songs, poetry, storytelling and images for spiritual inquiry, and a deep sense of community.

 

When She Comes consists of  Weekly Group Zoom Calls (every Friday night 7-930PM PHT) that focus on embodiment excercises that may allow us to intuitively dance, sing, chant, draw, and share stories. Our official start is on August 7, Friday. A manual with weekly assignments and writing prompts will be given to you, and a one-on-one video call with me will be scheduled every fourth week of the month so I can personally check-in in on your progress. This path to self-inquiry and self-actualisation is through radical self-honesty and responsibility. But as your guide, I will be holding your hand throughout the process, and holding space for you and your sisters every step of the way. We will have a culminating activity at the end of the 3rd month, where we all share our story through a ceremony, highlighting your poems, drawings, writings, songs and dance. This will be on November 1-7, to honor, celebrate and ceremonialize the completion of this phase of our journey to self-healing and self-love.

 

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When She Comes out, she is Animal...

On the First Month we will invoke wisdom from the Spirit Animal Archetypes, namely, the Wolf, the Lion and the Dragon.

On the 1st week, we are focusing on the lessons and mythos of the Wolf, honoring the grief and necessity in being a lone wolf, in honoring our pains and wounds. Seeing them. Really seeing them. And coming to terms through an apology and atonement while increasing our capability to hold space for ourselves when pain comes.

The 2nd week is about the Lion and its lessons. The Lion-hearted courage needed to lick our own wounds and start again. The empowerment in remembering our inherent might and strength. Being leader, head, not the tail. The resolve to be one's own heroine. Ready to fully wake the whole jungle again with a loud roar before the sun lifts on the horizon. Awake. Born new.

The 3rd week, I will share with you the wisdom of the Dragon. Fire, does not only create or destroy. It can transmute. It can alchemise. The dragon represents the master of the flames. With it we can transform the negative to positive, or the traumas to complete forgiveness and moving forward.

On the 4th week, I will be with you for individual Zoom meetings where you present your assignments, your artworks, dances and songs, that signify the resonance you have with these animals. that signify how a story of healing shared, is a story of empowerment on its own. I will be all ears. There is magic in stories of pain turning into stories of triumph when they are shared, and released. 

 

 

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When She comes over, she is Childlike..

 

On the Second Month, we will play with childlike wonder and awe. We will hear the inner child sing and dance with wild abandon and play. With cheekiness, with delight and humour. She is no longer a victim. She is renewed. She is new. Now with an even stronger back and softer heart, she trails back to feelings of innocence. Fierce, yet soft. Trusting that the Universe got her back. Her ancestors, Earth, and everything else comes together to support her fully. That she will never be a victim again, and she can claim her birthright to fun and abundance.

1st week is about Music. About relishing the breath until it forms beautiful, unique, intuitive sounds that both heal and balance her from within. Musical instruments are to be shared and played with. And she will be guided to concepts of rhythm, tempo and speed that are wise internal structures on their own, guiding her to her own personal rhythm as an artist-child and woman.
 

2nd week is about Food. The earthly delight of tasting good, well-prepared, healthy and life-giving food. Meditative exercises on eating, tasting and digesting food will be shared. We will talk about food as our most natural medicine from any and all dis-eases, as well as share stories and vulnerabilities as to how our relationship to food had been distorted because of societal conditioning around youth and beauty and outward physical appearance. We will enjoy and empower ourselves through organic act of eating and nourishing ourselves via food.

3rd week is about deep massages and physical movement that reminds us of our ability to self-mother and care for ourselves in a profoundly healing way. Touch is the first knowledge we knew as babies, when we first went out in the world through our mother's womb. It is via touch that we knew we exist. It is our first language. Even our relationship with our mother inside her belly is through the tactile sensation of being inside her belly. We will also discuss the concepts of doing and non-doing, physical activities and stillness, and even sleep, as well as  mindfulness and meditation as ancient practices that could be sources for deeply caring for ourselves.

4th week is where we meet for individual calls. How has the inner child played? How has the inner child remembers that she is whole and complete unto herself? And that she is capable of fully nourishing herself thru various, accessible, everyday techniques? What is her relationship now to Abundance and Joy?

 

 

When She comes through, she is Heavenly..

 

The Third Month is about Expression. How can she be in alignment to her highest truth? How can she express her truth in words and in actions bravely and unapologetically, without shame, guilt or fear of being outcast or being misunderstood? How can she learn to stand up for herself at all times? How can she say No when it is a deep No? And say Yes, and with a full embodied, committed Yes, when she means Yes?

The 1st week is about the Voice. This is about empowering the voice to the connection and enlivening and balancing of the sacral chakra (seat of our pleasure and creativity) and throat chakra (seat of our honest expression). This offers the chance for her to let go of any residual shame in her body, and be open about her desires, her longings, as well as her boundaries. Through song and poetry, she will be encouraged  to come through with what else have been shamed in her, and shed light on how she wants to be free. 

The 2nd week is about Dance. This will allow her to express the sensuality in her hips, her legs, her arms, and all parts of her body where she may have still been worried or afraid to express. The pleasureable movement that only her body can uniquely do and feel. She will be taught to own her own pleasure. This is a time to get sober and purge some more from the shame pill she have been given.

The 3rd week is about Divine Union. She will be challenged to do exercises that will lead her to love everything about her. What does it mean to marry the polarities within her or to move through the chaos and irregularity that sometimes ebbs and flows within her body? How can she accept herself fully and totally? How can she make love to every inch of herself, and appreciate every nook and cranny of her body? To be super in love with every aspect of herself. This is liberation.

On the 4th week is celebration. We will have individual calls to check in, and congratulate each one on her progress, and her path. And make good, yummy plans for next week's culminating activity -- a Special Ceremony where everyone shares a bit of their healing journey.