~ Goddess Celebration ~ Movement Meditation ~

These past few months I've been feeling this inner call to start moving my body more and getting more in touch with my senses. I had been focusing so much on my emotional, mental, and spiritual body, that I sort of forgot about my physical body.

~~ Our bodies are our temples, the vessel of our Soul. Its important to be fully present in our bodies and honor it as Sacred. ~~

Most of us tend to live up in our heads, we don’t breathe very deeply, and generally aren't really present in our bodies. 

Ive found that in my experience, dancing has been a really effective and fun way to reconnect with my body, ignite my inner fire and let it express itself through the dance. 

Over these past months I've come to really LOVE my body, and love my whole Being. Every part of it, my whole imperfectly perfect self. 

~~ My body is my temple and my dance is my offering ~~

Dance for the Universe, Dance for the Divine, Dance for Peace, Dance for LOVE <3

I decided to start practicing what I call "Goddess Celebration Movement Meditation". A practice where I can celebrate my goddess nature and heal myself through movement. One of my favorite ways of doing this is through Intuitive Dancing. I just close my eyes, put on some music and let it guide me. No rules, no thinking, just fully letting go and letting my intuition guide me. 

 ~~ Let Go and Let Love Guide ~~

I noticed that every time I do it it's never the same. It all depends on my state of being on that given day. I just listen to my body and move however FEELS good. Remember that whatever feels good for you on any given day is what you should do. No shame. No judgement. No guilt. Just come as you are and express yourself in your own beautiful authentic way.

Another one of my favorite movement meditations is hoop dancing. The circle in general is an intriguing shape. It's a very feminine shape, the shape of the moon, of the egg, a symbol of life, eternity, and balance.

Everything in the universe is constantly spinning. Galaxies, planets, solar systems are all constantly spinning. So what I've experienced is that when you're in the hoop and fully in the flow you can really connect with this universal rhythm. It's like you tune into this Macro - Micro synergy and reach this state of effortless flow, where you are dancing from your heart, from your source, from the divine space within you. 

It's also healing you on so many levels. Physically it's obviously really good for you body, but it also brings mental and emotional balance and clarity, & on a spiritual level it helps us connect to our true authentic self and express it through movement.

Belly dance is another really nice movement meditation practice especially for women. It really connects us to our feminine essence which most of us aren't really intune with. We’re living in a very patriarchial society where our feminine qualities (such as compassion, gentleness, nurturing, intuitive) are often seen as “weak” when in fact this is where our strength lies. 

Belly dancing unleashes our feminine qualities and bring to light our true goddess nature.

Belly dance has a lot of undulatiting circular movements especially in the hips and the lower chakras (muladhara, svadistana, and manipura). 

The root chakra, at the base of our spine, is where the kundalini shakti energy is stored. So through moving our hips in these very sensual fluid like movements, we activate this energy and as we tune in more this energy gets awakened and moves up our chakras creating higher states of consciousness and reaching a state of balance.

So I really encourage you all to honor your movement meditations as a spiritual practice, a way to release energy blockages, get more prana flowing in our bodies, connect to our sacred feminine essence, get in touch with our physical bodies and senses, and make us more present.... all while being in a state of JOY! :)

 Infinite Love, Gratitude, & Blessings,

~ Aida