| True power comes from the continuity and | | | | harm them! |
| connection between mind, body and soul, which | | | | Emotions that get bottled up get stored like toxins in |
| creates an inner power that allows you to feel, know | | | | your body. They collect around fat cells, get |
| and live your purpose and express and share your | | | | deposited in trigger points and meridians that create |
| essence with certitude, clarity and love. Working in | | | | painful muscles, swollen lymph, poor digestion, extra |
| dance and healing through the emotions in the body, | | | | weight, bloating or clouded obsessive thoughts and |
| I explore how to connect mind, body and soul | | | | inability to focus, do things or simply be yourself. You |
| through creative visualization of the Ideal Body and | | | | can also lose your life vitality, libido, appetite and lose |
| how this can affect change in your real body. | | | | weight or suffer mental health issues from |
| The nature of the human body and soul is to work | | | | withdrawing from the life you are truly meant to live, |
| with concepts and beliefs about your body and your | | | | simply because you cannot feel who you are on |
| being. We live with a concept of our body (or a | | | | either the level of your body, your emotions or even |
| mental structure) and beliefs about our body (or an | | | | your soul. |
| emotional structure). You can affect true change in | | | | Movement helps the body to move stored energy |
| your real body by visualizing and meditation with your | | | | and stored emotions. Dance is movement with |
| Ideal Body. The Ideal Body is a construct I use in | | | | emotional intent. You have to feel the movement to |
| meditation and dance therapy. It's a combination of | | | | really be flowing with the dance. Dance is like |
| your mental images charged with emotional beliefs | | | | exercising the muscle of emotion. When you dance |
| that empower you. Using an emotionally exciting | | | | you are practicing what it is like to feel and you can |
| image of your Ideal Body is how I access the power | | | | release feelings that are bottled up or simply not |
| of your soul and your essence that charges, | | | | being expressed. |
| energizes and influences all your life choices and | | | | When you are dancing or in meditation or any body |
| experiences. | | | | awareness practice, ask yourself what is that you |
| The concept of an Ideal Body with the power of | | | | feel good about or what you feel bad about. Simply |
| visualization, movement meditation and guided | | | | asking your body to show you what it is that needs |
| imagery and also fantasy, daydreaming and wishful | | | | more attention or what needs to be felt, allows your |
| thinking, works on moving you beyond your | | | | emotions to surface and begin to be released and |
| perceived limits and what you see in the mirror. | | | | expressed. When you have danced or meditated |
| Playing with and visualizing your Ideal Body is a way | | | | with this question, write about your feelings and you |
| to listen to your real body, to understand you body | | | | will have another excellent way to understand, |
| from a heart-felt place and allow your feelings, | | | | express and release your feelings. |
| desires and dreams to be expressed. The real you is | | | | Sometimes you may gain a sense of physical release |
| not just a physical body. Your body and being is | | | | without moving deeply held emotions. In order to get |
| created by your life experiences (parenting, | | | | to deeper more chronic or problematic emotions, |
| environment, socialization, education, spiritual beliefs | | | | work with the INTENT in your dance of accessing |
| and relationships) and your soul experiences. The soul | | | | your true self. This type of dance is a form of |
| has both positive and negative memories. What you | | | | "authentic movement", where you encourage the |
| may feel as limitations in your life or body, may | | | | body to simply move without thinking about how you |
| actually come from your soul. As we play with the | | | | dance. You can simply use the idea and intent to |
| concept of an Ideal Body we move beyond both the | | | | access your true self in any movement form and |
| limitations of your body, mind and emotions and even | | | | your body will automatically flow according to this |
| beyond the limitations of your soul. | | | | desire. Release any expectations of what that should |
| The Ideal Body is where your emotions, your physical | | | | be, look like and feel like and simply allow your body |
| body and mind are working together to access your | | | | to explore. |
| true self, your inner power, your aliveness and | | | | Releasing emotions in a healthy way is acknowledging |
| messages from your soul about how you are truly | | | | that there is no right of wrong way to feel yourself |
| meant to be. When you connect to your true self, | | | | or acknowledge your emotions. Your emotions will be |
| who you are from the level of your soul, you are | | | | different every day and change through out life. |
| empowered with a clarity that allows your body, | | | | Dance can be fun and just for laughs and freeing and |
| mind and emotions to work synergistically. | | | | sometimes dance can access blocked or negative |
| Your emotions are vital keys as to what has created | | | | feelings that need to be understood. Simply because |
| your physical body the way it is. The clue is to not | | | | you are moving, you have the choice to allow your |
| see the emotions as who you are, but simply an | | | | emotional body to move as well, which is the |
| aspect of who you are, that is open to change and | | | | pleasure that empowers your mind, body and soul to |
| will change daily, even from moment to moment. | | | | be and feel synergistically at one. |
| Emotions need to be felt and moved through the | | | | Dance is an external expression of an internal beat. |
| body. That is why you feel different after a good | | | | The two elements of inner feeling and outer |
| cry. | | | | movement are always in dialogue. The dialogue of |
| The body you have is not good or bad - it simply is | | | | inside and out is the way the dance acts as a mirror |
| what you have - at this point in time. Your Ideal | | | | for what is truly going on in your body, your feelings |
| Body is one that allows your emotions to move as | | | | and your life. Empowerment for you will come when |
| you move beyond limits of time and conditioning, | | | | you connect this dialogue between your Ideal Body |
| allowing your expression of self to flow out of you in | | | | and your emotions and gain access to what it is you |
| a way that does not harm yourself or others. You | | | | truly wish to be and how that feels like, physically, |
| may still offend or confuse people, but that doesn't | | | | emotionally and spiritually. |