Lately everything seems to be about EMBODIMENT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About movement, dancing, Yoga, moving your emotions through your body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And yes, yes I do it too. It IS a big part in my life too, which I got to rediscover in the last couple of years. I rediscovered dancing for me \u2013 not in the sense of going out at night and drinking, but in the sense of being able to feel myself again, to feel connection to my core and inner world, to express this inner world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So yes. I absolutely dig EMBODIMENT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And yet there\u2019s worlds apart between embodiment practices and embodied living.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Embodiment practices help you to move your thoughts, feelings and emotions. Embodied living for me is a way of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s not reduced to a couple of practices a day, it\u2019s to stand up to your inner world and bring it to the outside world. It\u2019s small situations in the daily life, like when you feel grumpy, that you simply allow yourself to be this way, to not try to push it away. It is going out into nature, singing to her, because you FEEL it in your heart that this is what wants to be moved through you right now, not because you learned about it in some course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All those women-, priestess and sister circles don\u2019t shift anything, if you simply follow the practices without feeling their righteousness in your heart. Cacao won\u2019t help you, if you don\u2019t feel its\u2019 calling. Yoga Trainings won\u2019t broaden your horizon, if you\u2019re not here to receive it\u2019s wisdom, traveling won\u2019t fill your heart, if the experience doesn\u2019t call you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Embodied living is not about joining sister circles, it\u2019s not about drinking Cacao, it\u2019s not about doing Yoga, it\u2019s not about being vegan and it\u2019s not about dancing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Embodied living is to go for a walk when you feel it, it is to dance in the rain when you hear it calling your soul, it is to eat ice cream when your soul longs for it, it is joining a woman or man circle when you feel it, it is playing volleyball, it is sleeping in long, it is a 9 to 5 job, it is caring for your Mother, it is planting a tree, it is singing with the wind, lying naked in the grass. It\u2019s going back home although you\u2019d really rather stay in Portugal for longer. Embodied living is it all, when you allow yourself to step out of your own way and follow your hearts\u2019 desire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is the real priestess shit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Embodied living is not something you can learn in a course or from someone else, it\u2019s something you discover in yourself. When you allow yourself to become vessel to something greater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And it starts with feeling yourself again, your body and feeling what you need. It\u2019s the realization that a calming meditation won\u2019t help when you\u2019re actually angry or that coffee\u2019s not the way when all that your body needs, is sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So let me ask you this: if you zoom into your body right now \u2013 what is it that you feel and need?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
PS: The words for this post just came to me during a Yin Yoga practice and I\u2019m so excited now to publish it, that I actually need to follow my body and stop the session in the middle of the practice to dance\u00a0\u270c\ud83c\udffb<\/p>\n\n\n\n