About last week - Soul training.

Last week I commenced my Chakra dance training. You might even ask, What the hell is chakra dance and what is she doing now? haha

For me, as I offer services of wellbeing, self-improvement and empowerment, I'm trying different modalities to see what fits for you and what fits for me.

The role of caring and holding space for others can take a lot out of a person and I'm very mindful of this. I make sure that whatever medicine I offer you also serves me, it needs to. This is imperative for a wellbeing and a spiritual carer. It is very easy for us, as the care providers, to leak our energy, leak our resources and leak our light as we go about healing and helping others.

Chakra dance is a modality I tried a few years ago. I loved it. I already know I love to dance, and move my body and play. Through my 20’s my body only really knew dance as being affiliated with alcohol. Many podiums in nightclubs, many hours and early hours of the morning had been spent dancing. Clearly now I can't do that so much and I don't want to dance that way anymore, but I can’t deny I still love the way dance makes me feel.

So I decided to do a chakra dance course. This offering will help me facilitate awakening and invigorating dances for all for all the people out there like me who love to dance, but who no longer want to do it with a belly full of alcohol, high heels and into the early hours of the morning.

Spiritually, dance is an amazing way to connect to yourself, to your spirit and to the spirit guides that are around us guiding us constantly.

Step one was about us learning about the Base Chakra. This is a space I already know lots about with my work with Reiki but to interpret it and understand how it needs to be strengthened and supported through dance was a whole other experience and I loved it.

When we think about our Base Chakra (at the base of our spine) knowing that it's the lower chakra closest to our feet, closest to the earth. It connects us back into nature. You might have even heard the term “Grounding”. Our base chakra is really imperative that it holds a level of grounding. If the Base Chakra is not grounded you will notice that you might feel panicky, anxious, flighty, not able to make a decision, not able to commit to anything, consistently never finishing a task. You might be haphazard, quick to emotion and quick to quit.

It's like an instability that exists in your core. So you can see where the value in working on your grounded chakra -The base chakra (which is the colour of red).

While doing this course we were asked to connect your spirit animals that connect us back to the land and nature. For a long time, my spirit animal has been a large Hare with big, tall ears, he has appeared in many of my meditations. I have drawn him, I have danced with him, and he's led me down some interesting paths of self-awareness.

However, with this particular session last week, I was greeted by a big gray Wolf. My protector, he was my power animal. He was by my side walking with me. He wasn't aggressive or in stealth mode or on the hunt. He was proud and noble and brave - Some of those things that I had been lacking a little bit lately, as I flipped between “What am I doing. How I am doing it, am I taking on too much? Am I giving my family enough time. I haven't seen my friends in ages. Blah La La La it all goes on and on and on.

This gray wolf greeted me in a field as my power animal - that is to show me what I need to invoke. I was then asked to call in my Animal guide - Where a big beautiful grey elephant and her baby approached me and asked me to follow.

The one thing I noticed about both of these animals that came into my fruition, is the balance between how well they do alone and how well they do herd. Helping to guide me to the realisation of the importance of balancing both. That's probably why I haven't been able to catch up with as many people as I want to. Because as I grow and unfold and release layers of myself and my old ways and my old habits, I must go within - I must go quiet and I must shut down the external noise that appears around me.

The meditation guided us to move. The music was heavy, strong with a big base beat. As I relaxed my hips started moving, and my shoulder started swaying, in my head started rocking.

And then these movements just came out of my body. At first soft and nurturing, supple almost - then stronger, bolder, braver. I flap my arms around in front of me and I realized I was dancing the way I imagined the elephant might dance with its trunk swaying around before her. This is just what came from me, this wasn't a constructed choreographed dance and movement. This was an organic flow that my body just did.

As always, through my meditation practise, I sit in the view of my Spirit Self. High above watching the movements of human Gayle and what she is doing, observing, recognizing, trying not to analyze as best that I can. Just being in the moment seeing the beauty of all that I am. Seeing how special I am.

What is the difference between egotistical special and self-awareness special? Well, while I acknowledge I am special. What I do equally acknowledge is that I am NO more special than anybody else. And that's the difference in practicing gratitude and being humble.

I hope that you will join me on some of my chakra dances that I provide later in the year, once I have finished my book manuscript. It will be a great way to celebrate and shift.

Chakra Dance is a beautiful awakening and return back to the divine and primal part of yourself. It is sensual. It is sexy. It is beautiful. It is also ugly and can be aggressive and dark.

Your body will do what it needs to in that moment. And for that we shall not judge, we just witness.

Be brave and join me.

I'll let you know when it's available.

As always, thank you for reading.

And I hope you have a terrific week ahead.