Body as Sanctuary: Rooting deeper during shape-shifting times

An embodied journey of embracing life’s challenges, falling into grace, shaping beauty and nourishing Gaia's dream

Pearls are formed when an irritant, a grain of sand or parasite, enters the oyster's shell. She responds by wrapping pearlescent liquid around it, layer upon layer - until a beautiful pearl is formed. Her body's alchemical process not only heals and protects, but births something shimmering and new. Leaning into discomfort, embodying a sacred container and shaping beauty feels like the medicine for these tumultuous times of profound change and possibility.

Life is a like a river that can offer buoyant support, gentle currents, strong undertows and rough rapids.

Over the years I've noticed that experiences of shattering, unravelling, surprise and trigger carve space in my flesh, rupturing pre-conceived ideas and the embedded 'cultural anatomy' - an opportunity to disrupt hegemonic norms and imprinted patterns that inform how we allow ourselves to move and sound.

When met with willingness, humbleness, presence, community and self-love, these carved and broken-open spaces create deep wells instead of welts. Ancestral voices sing in these wells. Whispers from spirit guides echo and are amplified. Feminine animal-body instincts ripple and bubble...

Image by transformational artist: Orly Faya

Life is a like a river that can offer buoyant support, gentle currents, strong undertows and rough rapids.

Over the years I've noticed that experiences of shattering, unravelling, surprise and trigger carve space in my flesh, rupturing pre-conceived ideas and the embedded 'cultural anatomy' - an opportunity to disrupt hegemonic norms and imprinted patterns that inform how we allow ourselves to move and sound.

When met with willingness, humbleness, presence, community and self-love, these carved and broken-open spaces create deep wells instead of welts. Ancestral voices sing in these wells. Whispers from spirit guides echo and are amplified. Feminine animal-body instincts ripple and bubble...

How does your body respond when you encounter rough waters, swirling eddies, tidal waves?

Over the years I've noticed that experiences of shattering, unravelling, surprise and trigger carve space in my flesh, rupturing pre-conceived ideas and the embedded 'cultural anatomy' - hegemonic norms and imprinted patterns that inform how we allow ourselves to move and sound.

When met with willingness, humbleness, community and self-love, these carved and broken-open spaces create deep wells instead of welts. Ancestral voices sing in these wells. Whispers from spirit guides echo and are amplified. Feminine animal-body instincts ripple and bubble.

In March

In March

Movement as alchemy

Registration

If this invitation feels resonant, your presence is most welcome! Please confirm your participation by registering below.

DATE: Tuesday August 18
TIME: 1:30 - 3:30 pm
LOCATION: Zoom @ your computer/phone/ipad
The Zoom link will be shared via email 48 hours and again 2 hours prior to our event.

INVESTMENT: Pay what you choose $25 - $65
+hst (Value $65)
**you will be charged in Canadian dollars

 

I look forward to being together! Love, Elisha

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