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June 8, 2023
Heart and Hustle with today’s guest Gabriel Omat, founder of the Energetic Alignment Academy #159
with your host, Paulette Rees-Denis
and with today’s guest
Gabriel Omat,
founder of the Energetic Alignment Academy #159
Hello beauties!
Welcome to another episode of Heart and Hustle! What a great conversation today with Gabriel Omat. I know you are going to love this short chat.
Oh yes, we talk about being in alignment with ourselves, morning practices, moving from the corporate world into her masculine hustling energy to make her new business run. But that of course didn’t work! She hired a coach to help her with her inner connection, regaining that connection that had gotten lost, and that ended up helping her business. Sooooo good people! We are both mixing the Woo with the Practical…
Enjoy our conversation and let us know your takeaways!
You can listen in on
SoundCloud/ITunes while you are on the run!
And don’t forget to subscribe!
Well, what do you think my friend? Did you enjoy our chat?
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More about Gabriel:
Gabriel Omat (G) is a highly accomplished life coach, entrepreneur, and mother of three adult children. Together with her partner Marc, she co-founded Energetic Alignment Academy, a consulting and coaching business that helps individuals monetize their passions for helping others.
Despite facing challenges growing up in Juneau, AK, including struggling with school, substance abuse, and becoming a pregnant high school dropout at 17, G has consistently defied the odds and achieved success.
She spent 30 years in a male-dominated corporate environment before starting her own successful coaching business, full of “Hell Yes” clients. Gabriel’s passion for personal development began about 10 years ago when she transformed her body and lifestyle.
In November 2021, she left her six-figure corporate career to focus solely on growing Energetic Alignment Academy and positively impacting more people.
When she’s not working on her dream business, you can find her traveling, exploring new places, enjoying date night every Friday with her husband of 20 years and spending time with her 3 kids and 2 grandchildren.
C O N N E C T WI T H G A B R I E L I
info@energeticalignmentacademy.com
energeticalignmentacademy.com
@energeticalignmentacademy
@gabriel.omat
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Thanks for being with us today, and sharing in all these great conversations on Heart and Hustle! With so much gratitude for being able to do this work and bring these conversations to you.
Paulette
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Make sure to check out my weekly Lively Conversations on FB and Insta, Mondays, 9:30am PST!
Here is this weeks replay…
Love you to join me every week..
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AND
BEYOND THE ORDINARY :: WRITING FROM THE BODY TO THE PAGEA SUMMER REWILDING WITH YOUR WORDSHope you can join us this Saturday for 2 hours of personal journaling time, our once-a-month writing practice…
our theme this month isBody as Temple=Temple of Lovein our magical virtual circle on zoom…
get your journals ready for some fun and magic with words!
and time for yourself…
Saturday, 9-11 am on Zoom, PST, join in my magical circle ( once a month),
Register now…https://globalcaravandance.com/product/beyond-the-ordinary-journaling-from-the-body-to-the-page/
June 7, 2023
Our Creative Processes!
Hellooooo my lovely,
My musings…thinking about the creative process and feeling good…
A famous quote from Anais Nin, one of my heroes:
“and the day came when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
A while back, and several times over the past few years, I took a retreat for myself and my writing, and it was sublime. An awesome thing for me to do for myself, and I needed time to check in with my creativity and where my writing was taking me. Some of you who have been around this blog and me for some time (so much gratitude that you are here!) and know that I have written my blogs (for a zillion years), written magazine articles, developed and produced several online courses, while teaching writing, creative renewal, and fulfillment, And delightfully I have written and published 4 books and 5 Anthologies( with contributions from many of you creative souls-so freakin cool), and even in the past, published a Tribal dance based ‘zine that in a physical format for years- any of you have copies of those vintage mags?
Along with bits of poetry that I have shared with you, I keep journals like a mad woman! And you KNOW how I am always trying to get you to write, journal, and share your thoughts and stories!
So what I want to share with you… is that I finally came out as a poet a few years back! Sounds funny, but I have written these bits for years, songs, snippets, and poetry, but never thought too much about it. But when I was at my retreat, the words flowed out of me like lava, heat waves pouring through my fingers from my heart and soul, without me stopping to pause about what I was writing. And it hit me, that, YES, I was, in fact, a poet. Lyrical prose, if you will. I continued on my own studies, receiving my Master’s Degree in Writing and Publishing, at age 50, and now I can say I have published 4 books…And now I can surely call myself a poet, and a writer, but importantly, I journal…and how cool it was to stare at my words and say, wow… this is what I write, what I see and hear and share… And it was liberating and full of freedom and soul, and ME! And how fun to say it out loud. And I am now working on my 2nd poetry book! ( The first one is : Breaking Down the Walls, available through me and also through Amazon, as are all my books)
So I write my poems and allow the connection with my soul, my angels, my guides, the powers that be, to ALLOW the words to flow freely, with deepness, meaning, and intention, but from a source deep within. And to allow it to be.
And I attribute my connection, this deeper awareness, to my feeling good, my whole being and well-being and taking good care of myself so that my highest self, my creative self can shine through, in all I do, not just my poetry, or my writing, or my dance, or my teaching, or my loving, or my friendships…ALL of what I do…
Because if I don’t feel good, none of that will happen, not with a trueness, an authenticness, a richness, a me-ness! And I soooo want that…and that is treating my body as my temple. and allowing the love to flow… the pleasure to unfold, to feel good!
You’ve heard, or read, about my self-care rituals, daily practice, and how I feel about taking care of my temple, and my body, so that I can dance, I can run, I can write, I can teach, I can love fully. I always want to share with you what I know and find to be useful, so you too, my students, friends, and coaching clients, to live up to your fullest life too. And I want to take care of myself in the simplest way possible so I do have time and space to create and do what I need and want to do.
And THAT is my theme this week, or perhaps this month…
Body as Temple = Temple of LoveI talked about it on my Lively Conversation this week, and it will be my focus in our writing class this Saturday, did you miss my live? here is the replay:
Beyond the Ordinary:: From the Body to the Page
Join us this Saturday, to really dive into your words, letting your body express, your mind release,
your creativity blossom…
Click here for our 2 hour class this month:
Saturday, 9-11 am PST, on Zoom
We will write, we will read aloud to share, we will experiment with different styles of writing and journaling, with rambling, poetic verse in different forms, mystical and magical imagery,
and deep dives into our own lives.
Writing ourselves into being present, showing up,
and letting our muse take us to that special place of expression.
June 10th- theme is Body as Temple=Temple of Love
then two more….July 15th, August 12th
With time to really sink into yourself and your words…delicious…new beginnings… you, and me, and us, and our sacred circle of creatives…we step into your deeper Wildness with journaling prompts, poetic phrases, oracle pulls, energy shifts, with that beautiful inner breath of inquiry, letting words be your medicine as you sink into your own rhythm of writing, your ritual of being, your magic making manifestations…
let’s write together…and become the cultivator, the creator, of your life as you move forward, while you dance with your desires!
$17 for one two-hour class, by drop-in, pre-registration is necessary
Join us now! I am delighted to write with you, and help you step into more of your creativity and truth and fun with your words!
Click here, only $17 bucks for two hours of YOU time, and creating with your words!
Feeling good in my body gives me creative freedom! And energy and clarity! I could not do what I do, accomplish what I do, create what I do, step into my abundance, and coach and teach my students and clients, if I did not feel good and my body did not allow me pleasure and freedom! And to honor my temple, which is really all I have.
Do you need clarity and feeling good? You are the one who knows, really knows what you need and want. Listen to your body and give it what it asks for. I just want you to step up, with your creativity, your art. and your well-being so you can feel great and do what you are here to do, and we can cruise through this fabulous life together.
“Sister, open your heart, fling your hopes high and set your dreams aloft.
I am here to hold your hand.”
Maya Angelou
Now about that creativity!
Julia Cameron, another one of my heroes, writes in one of my fav books, The Artist’s Way, about creative spirituality! Here is a brief excerpt for you to dive into!
She writes:
“The following spiritual principles are the bedrock on which creative recovery and discovery can be built. Read them through once a day, and keep an inner ear cocked for any shifts in attitudes or beliefs.
Basic Principles:
1. Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creative energy.
2. There is an underlying, in-dwelling creative force infusing all of life — including ourselves.
3. When we open ourselves to our creativity, we open ourselves to the creator’s creativity within us and our lives.
4. We are, ourselves, creations. And we, in turn, are meant to continue creativity by being creative ourselves.
5. Creativity is God’s gift to us. Using our creativity is our gift back to God.
6. The refusal to be creative is self-will and is counter to our true nature.
7. When we open ourselves to exploring our creativity, we open ourselves to God: good orderly direction.
8. As we open our creative channel to the creator, many gentle but powerful changes are to be expected.
9. It is safe to open ourselves up to greater and greater creativity.
10. Our creative dreams and yearnings come from a divine source. As we move toward our dreams, we move toward our divinity.”
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Fabulous… “There is an underlying, in-dwelling creative force infusing all of life — including ourselves.”–speaks to my soul…how about you?
And thanks for being here…I’ll share some of my new poems with you soon…, as I am working on my next book this summer. Let me know if I can guide you with some Movement, Momentum, and Magic Life Coaching…I still have a few opening this summer for my 3 month package… click here for a free chat with me about what you are desiring to step into…
And enjoy your days and nights, may your creativity flourish!
Love you
Paulette
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Sign up now for our Saturday From the Body to the Page journaling class… see you on Zoom this weekend!
Click here, only $17 bucks for two hours of YOU time, and creating with your words!
May 12, 2023
Heart and Hustle with my guest, Sheevaun Moran, Energy Thought Leader, #158
Heart and Hustle:
Visionary Healers, Movers, and Shakers,
with me, your host and lifestyle coach,
Paulette Rees-Denis
and my guest today,
Sheevaun Moran,
Energy Thought Leader, Master Coach, and more! Episode #158
Hellooooo
and happy Friday to you,
Today I’m delighted to share this conversation with Sheevaun! Wow…She is a spiritual warrior for business success! As a Master Coach, she mixes in the “woo”! We were laughing about that “woo” thing she does for people’s businesses!
Watch and Listen here!
You can listen in on
SoundCloud/ITunes while you are on the run!
And don’t forget to subscribe!
Well, what do you think my friend? Did you enjoy our chat?
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Sheevaun Moran is a business advisor, master coach, energy thought leader, and the founder of Energetic Solutions®. Having worked with 15,000+ entrepreneurs, Sheevaun has been able combine her corporate experience, rapid growth expertise, and her unique approach using energetic techniques & principles to help innovate small businesses into big conglomerates.
https://sheevaunmoran.com/
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You, my friend, I am so grateful to be able to share these interviews with you. I love finding people in the world who are creating change, wanting to bring their expertise to those in need, and make the world a happier and brighter place. I’m so glad you are in my world too! Have a great weekend, and know that I am here for you too!
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Make sure to check out my weekly Lively Conversations on FB and Insta, Mondays, 9:30am PST!
Here is this weeks replay…
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cq3uQNLpdj6/
Love you to join me every week..
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AND this Saturday, tomorrow!
Saturday, 9-11 am on Zoom, join in my magical circle ( once a month),
https://globalcaravandance.com/product/beyond-the-ordinary-journaling-from-the-body-to-the-page/
May 9, 2023
Paulette’s Musings, Missives, Baby Steps and Journaling
Again, and always in my world of creation, co-creation, collaboration, productivity, inspiration, and more…
I like to consider myself a word witch!
I am a magic maker, a movement motivator, a passion instigator… and so much more…fun with how I describe myself, playing with words that help me show up as authentic and who I am…
But really, I am….
creating visions with words, telling stories, laying down beauty through journaling, planning desires, bringing clarity through the act of listening deep to my own heart, soul, body… and releasing it from my body to the page!
What I do as your coach, your writing facilitator, your crazy-ass sacred rebel, is to help you to live a life full of your pleasure, making the changes you want to see, stepping into your desires, and rewriting your story.
This starts with helping you develop your journaling practice, and giving you the space to allow yourself to step into the practice and play with your words, your writing, your creativity!
and that’s what we do in my journaling classes!
How do you describe yourself? What words do you use? Can you step into more of your wildness? Ready to unleash more of yourself?
And it is all about taking baby steps… what I talked about this week on my Lively Conversation Monday!
and if you did not see it-here is the replay…
https://youtu.be/zFdlMXn9tZM
Lively Conversation with Paulette- Today let’s talk about Motivation!
Monday Momentum… beautiful souls, how are you starting your week? Do you start with excitement for the week ahead, your work, your fun, your relationships, your personal time? Are you clear on how you want to show up this week, even just today? Even just this part of the day? Let’s talk about those baby steps out of overwhelm to really get geared up for YOU.
Who wants to spend more “me” time? We all need more me time! So for once a month over the next 4 months, for two hours join me and spend your Saturday morning ( 9am-11am PST), with your journal, writing, diving into your heart, experimenting, and adventuring with your words? Showing up and taking baby steps into more of your words and expression.
Words are so important, and taking time with yours will take you to another level of living all the you desire!
Thoughts become words become things!Join us in our sacred virtual space while we can gather in circle on zoom, to write and add color and depth to your writing. So fun.
Register here and join us!Beyond the Ordinary::Journaling From the Body to the Page
a rewilding with your words
Join us this Saturday on zoom::Not your typical journaling class! Once a month for 2 hours give yourself time to
Breathe, write, listen, write, explore your words, create, and enjoy in our magical virtual circle!
Register now for one or all four for the season…
We will write, we will read aloud to share, we will experiment with different styles of writing and journaling, with rambling, poetic verse in different forms, mystical and magical imagery, and deep dives into our own lives. Writing ourselves into being present, showing up, and letting our muse take us to that special place of expression.
Who will join us on this 4-month journey? May – June
Saturday May 13, 9-11 am PST on zoom
then again on
June 10th
July 15th
August 12th
We’re taking more time to really sink into yourself and your words…delicious…new beginnings… you, and me, and us, and our sacred circle of creatives…
Register here and join us!
With Beginner’s Mind, we step into your deeper Wildness with journaling prompts, poetic phrases, oracle pulls, energy shifts, with that beautiful inner breath of inquiry, letting words be your medicine as you sink into your own rhythm of writing, your ritual of being, your magic making manifestations…
let’s write together…and become the cultivator, the creator, of your life as you move forward, while you dance with your desires!
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Step into your practice, take those baby steps to move your forward, and enjoy!
Thank you my friend, for joining us here in our online gathering space!
See you soon,
Paulette
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and please spread the word to those you know would love my musings!!! eternally grateful for building community…
May 1, 2023
Paulette’s Musings, Missives, and New Beginnings
Again, and always in my world of creation, co-creation, collaboration, productivity, inspiration, and more…
I’ve always said I’m not afraid of change, I embrace it, I love the creative aspect of creating change, I can be the queen of new projects, they come flying into my brain, downloading from my guide while I sleep at night, or in the middle of a class, or another project…
and then sometimes…
it’s time to let those go, to either complete them, or restructure them, or just banish them from my overload…
know what I mean?
and that’s what this is about today…
new beginnings…
my musings- being a period of reflection or thought
and now my missives- a long drawn-out letter of sorts and ramblings…
and this is what I’ll be talking about again
Today, 2:00 PST, for another
Lively Conversation
with me, Paulette Rees-Denis…
take a break in your day to tune in and I want to talk about New Beginnings!
and a poem that I wrote too!
on FB at
https://www.facebook.com/paulettecoach
and insta
https://www.instagram.com/paulettereesdenis/
For those of you who love to read, and write poetry, I call these my life-shorts, and am in the process of writing my 2nd poetry book, ( will be my 5th book!) really concentrating on that this summer on my 2-month road trip across the states,
but there is so much juicy poetry and ramblings out there… who are your favs?
Who of you are writers? Journalers? Poets? Novelists? Wanna be somethings?
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Who’s wants to spend more “me” time this summer ( or
winter!) to spend a Saturday morning with me, and your journals, writing, diving into your heart, experimenting, and adventuring with your words?
I was talking last night with an older woman who said she was not, nor had ever been creative. Lies–what this world teaches us to think sometimes is overwhelming to me. Everyone is creative, and lives a new and fresh life every day. And it is what you make it, and you can rewrite it, and your can create your life the way you want. Words are so important, and taking time with yours will take you to another level of living all the you desire!
Thoughts become words become things!S
ooooo….
I will be offering over the summer a once-a-month writing intensive, on Saturday mornings, 9 am PST, for 2 hours, to create a sacred space with which we can gather in virtual circle on zoom, to write, to bounce off of my colorful prompts, and to add color and depth to your life. So fun.
My once-a-week journaling class, From the Body to the Page, has now transformed after almost 2 years of weekly journaling with amazing writers, to come together into this once-monthly extended writing time.
Journaling From the Body to the Page
a rewilding with your words
We will write, we will read aloud to share, we will experiment with different styles of writing and journaling, with rambling, poetic verse in different forms, mystical and magical imagery, and deep dives into our own lives. Writing ourselves into being present, showing up, and letting our muse take us to that special place of expression.
Who will join us on this 4-month journey? May – June
Saturday May 13, 9-11 am PST on zoom
then again on
June 10th
July 15th
August 13th
This is a longer class than before, with time to really sink into yourself and your words…delicious…new beginnings… you, and me, and us, and our sacred circle of creatives…
with Beginner’s Mind, we step into your deeper Wildness with journaling prompts, poetic phrases, oracle pulls, energy shifts, with that beautiful inner breath of enquiry, letting words be your medicine as you sink into your own rhythm of writing, your ritual of being, your magic making manifestations…
let’s write together…and become the cultivator, the creator, of your life as you move forward, while you dance with your desires!
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my ramblings…new beginnings
1st things 1st
Sings an old country song
Slash
I sing into my new beginnings
Again
And again
Constantly, and consistently
Changing the story
Organizing and reorganizing
And forgetting with this bit of aged mind warp
All the gorgeous and fluent ideas
As the filter through my brain
Wafting by, or bombing me
Or twinkle-toeing in circles
Slash
I need to cut through
Using my sacred athame in my mind
So wisely passed on to the Ravyn friend of my soul
Protecting yet cutting through the shit
To stop with the what-ifs
To stand in my own power
Slash
A fresh picture emerges
Beckoning me, seducing me
With the undertones of awesomeness
I do so love to be awed
By words, songs, dances
By creatures of the night
Spirits dancing in my dreams of creation
What comes first I ask them
We’ll show you they say
But listen deep and watch closely
We won’t lie and we won’t stop
Slash
The movie unfolds
Careening through the pages
Double-exposed entities
Of layers of words over skin
Over pictures of beauty
Of scarcity
Of sovereignty
In-person flesh presides
Direction as the conductor of a
Wild symphony gone awry
Twisting and turning
Slash
Coming back to stillness
That beautiful place of space
Of allowing
Honoring the sequence of the unfolding
Stepping outside of the box
To stay in the box
Of my clearer vision of all that I am becoming
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that’s a lot of stuff for you today!
Please enjoy, take your time, and let me know what you think! Love hearing your comments…
Peace…
Thank you my friend, for joining us here in our online gathering space!
See you soon,
Paulette
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and if you did not see my Lively Conversation last Monday about how we show up and the words we use… go here to see the replay… hope to see you today!
and please spread the word to those you know would love my musings!!! eternally grateful for building community…
April 18, 2023
Paulette’s Musings, Transition, The beauty of women, Lively conversation, and more…
Today my musings are all about words, poetry, emotions, change, beauty… lots of words!
Ideas for you to journal from, use as prompts for your own thoughts on beauty and women and change! Take a few moments, grab a cuppa, sit down, and read and reflect… I love sharing these lifeshorts of mine with you…to inspire and get your writing, reading, and moving!
My theme this week is Transitions, plus a bit of how you are showing up in your world, and poetry, the Beauty of Women!
I’m so glad you are here to share in these words of exploration, expansion, change…
These are two pieces I wrote about transitions, moving forward, celebrating the past, letting go, and stuff! let me know how you move forward, what transitions are taking place in your life, and what you have celebrated!
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Transitions
Transition at the kitchen sink
It happens
My place for cooking, cleaning, gazing out toward the palm trees,
dancing and singing
meditations happen
downloads loaded up
I shimmy and scoot back and forth from the stove to the fridg
To the sink and pivot around the counter to do a few step touches, spins
Add in wailing to some old R&B
I only then realize my passion for exploration of nourishment
On all the levels of being
Of feeding family and friends
Bringing in new taste sensations
And sometimes the ‘what the hell do I do with this?’
Then most consistently and continually wash the dishes to make room
In my little space of sacred offerings and loving delight of colors and shapes
Then tastes and sustenance
Knowing that not only am I honoring my vegan values of ahimsa-
No animals come butchered to my table
But in sharing the joy of food, the old honored traditions breaking bread together
Of feeding ourselves with curiosity and pleasure
The songs play on, holding space in my memories
As the food is served on luscious platters of deliciousness
To display all the goodness that life has to offer
In feeding the body and the soul.
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Riding the bicycle of transitions
Cruising through the neighborhoods of art
With open eyes of curiosity
Filling in the gaps of creation
Allowing for the differences of opinions
Of growth and expansion
Of maintaining the visuals and the visages of the accouterments
Of living a sacred and beautiful vision of life
Pumping the pedals to raise awareness,
To raise the blood pressure,
To know I am alive
And filling myself up with the energy and the breath of riding within the boundaries
To have the allotted space, the solo lane, while desperately wanting to overstep my welcome,
Break tradition
To recreate and rewild with possibilities
To transition to the moon and the stars and back again
While keeping connection with the ground underneath my wheels
Mama Earth, mother Gaia
Spinning over and over, spiraling chaos of change,
I am always moving forward
The earth reaches up to envelope me and my octopussy map of reaching and searching divine feminine tentacles
Out in every direction, not just north or south, or east or west,
But within and without, to the ether, to the heavens, to the hells
Asking for connection with my guides for true direction
As I ride the sky homeward, wicked witch be damned,
Bound with new passionate visions of my own wild grandeur
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and then I want to share something I wrote for my dancers, but really all women…
the Beauty of Women
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and if you did not see my Lively Conversation on Monday about how we show up and the words we use… go here to see the replay…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfaTTEBLvxQ
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ok whew… that’s a lot of stuff for you today!
Please enjoy, take your time, journal it out, and let me know what you think! Love hearing your comments…
Peace…
Thank you my friend, for joining us here in our online gathering space!
See you soon,
Paulette
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What’s coming up in person for us desert dwellers…
**Tuesday- Global Caravan Tribal Bellydance,
another great 6 week series, all levels welcome,
AND your first class is FREE tonight!
in Palm Desert, 5:45-6:45pm
Paulette Rees-Denis, the innovator of this global dance style, for over 30 years, creates magic, raises energy, brings well-being, and community connection with this evocative feminine style of bellydance, incorporating a fusion of cultures, influences from ancient dances, with great music and wonderful moves!Physically rewarding, spiritually connecting, emotionally freeing! AND FUN! check out more about this style and Paulette at
www.globalcaravandance.com
Click here to sign up:
https://globalcaravandance.com/product/tribal-bellydance-classes/
Come and join our growing circle of healing, exploration, creativity, and joy…
AND
YOU ARE INVITED to our new women’s gathering circle!
This coming Sunday, April 23rd is our first women’s circle for the new moon…so excited!!!
Luna Body, Luna Soul
Women’s Monthly New Moon Gathering
with Leslie Gerber and Paulette Rees-Denis
Join our monthly circle for a circle of connection, healing, support, and fun with
bellydance and movement, sound healing, and journaling!
Honoring our feminine divine within and moving your body for joy, connecting with the goddess, and setting new moon intentions for each month. A celebration of YOU!
Sundays April 23, 6-7:30 pm
also May 21st
Lavender Soul Studio in Palm Desert!
74-277 Highway 111, behind the front building, parking on the street…
$35.00
****Please pre-register, class space is Limited…
https://globalcaravandance.com/product/luna-body-luna-soul-womens-monthly-new-moon-gathering/
Wear delightful loose clothing so you can dance, tie a scarf around your hips, bring your yoga mat, water, your journal, and your smile!
April 14, 2023
Heart and Hustle with my guest, Laurie Lewis, Intermittent Fasting Coach, #157
Visionary Healers, Movers, and Shakers,
with your host and lifestyle coach,
Paulette Rees-Denis
with my guest today,
Laurie Lewis,
Intermittent Fasting Coach, #157
Happy Friday,
Bringing you yet another fabulous woman, entrepreneur, author, magic maker, and intermittent fasting coach, Laurie Lewis!What is intermittent fasting, you ask? Listen to our conversation and see how Laurie brings her magic to the world!
Watch and Listen here!
https://youtu.be/EHFfrb3nrkY
You can listen in on
SoundCloud/ITunes while you are on the run!
And don’t forget to subscribe!
Well, what do you think my friend?
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More about Laurie:
For Intermittent Fasting Coach and Author, Laurie Lewis, menopause dealt a crushing blow — brain fog, lack of balance, memory loss, and the sudden gain of 50 pounds of stubborn hormonal fat. She tried everything she knew to feel better, and the methods that worked in the past made no difference.
After four years of struggle, Laurie stumbled upon Intermittent Fasting and started fasting that very same day. The menopausal fog lifted in less than one week, she had more energy and felt more “like herself.” She lost 51 pounds in 15 months and has kept it off for years!
Now, at 59-years old, Laurie has turned her personal success into the premier thriving Intermittent Fasting coaching business. As a certified health coach (Institute for Integrative Nutrition) she combines her knowledge of nutrition with deep research and practice of Time Restricted Eating. Laurie guides her clients with a dream come true — eat the foods you love and enjoy the rest of your life feeling vibrantly well.
~~~~~~~~~~You, my friend, I am so grateful to be able to share these interviews with you. I love finding people in the world who are creating change, wanting to bring their expertise to those in need, and make the world a happier and brighter place. I ‘m so glad you are in my world too! Have a great weekend, and know that I am here for you too!
Make sure to check out my weekly Lively Conversations on FB and Insta, Mondays, 2:00 pm PST!
Here is this weeks replay…
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cq3uQNLpdj6/
Love you to join me every week..
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Are you ready for some coaching with me?
Let’s step into Spring and get YOU on your calendar…
Curious about how that would look for you, your time, and your investment?
Want to talk with me to see if this could be the right next step for you to step into your desires and take some action!.
Please schedule that free consultation now with me so we can talk about your desires. Click here…
April 10, 2023
Music and Movement — Paulette’s Musings
Happy Motivational Monday, lovey,
Music moves my soul. Music makes me move my body and it is in almost all that I do and am in my life. Having started dancing and playing music at age 7, it has carried me through all my years, as I continue to dance, many styles, and to play guitar, keyboards, ukelele, and even the washboard.
As I wrote about in my book, Tribal Vision: A Celebration of Life Through Tribal Belly Dance…this is excerpted from Chapter 7, a chapter about our Gypsy Caravan music and our tribal bellydance.
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Music can rip my heart out. It can make my soul bleed, my heart sing, my voice cry, and my hips shimmy and shake. From the time I was young, I had to have music in my life. I played the organ first, starting at age seven; in my early teens, I taught myself guitar. As I time travel back, I remember sitting for hours on the floor with albums, yes, albums, spread all around me, singing along with my rock heroes while I read the poetry of their words, and sometimes complete nonsense.
What is it about music that touches one’s heart or soul or body? For every person it can be different. The sound of the voice, whether it be male or female, or the melody line, be it melancholy or zippy, can reach in deep to touch your soul, or leave you cold. The rhythm might be played in a slow, rolling pattern that takes you walking with a syncopated step. Or it may be big and bold and heavy and loud, making you want to jump out of your skin and shake it up.
For me, it all begins with the rhythm. If we have nothing else, we have rhythm, our heart beat. In the beginning of time, our life force started with the heart beat.
For the full chapter and history about the Gypsy Caravan’s music, go to dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/6pz2tpzn1ilejlvjsyutt/Chapter-7.-copy-Music-doc.doc?dl=0&rlkey=f9xd4a52bfr2nu4dzy91ig5w5
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And seriously, we have to move our bodies. They are made for moving, for dancing, for grooving. For so many reasons. Movement brings me so much joy, from the feel-good freedom of self-expression, to structured dance forms such as bellydance, or flamenco, or salsa, to workouts such as yoga, pilates, even at the gym with free weights and the machines, I love it all. So does my overall health, my emotional well-being, my spirit, and the fitness of my body through the years. And especially as I get older. I feel great, and have remained strong and flexible, continuing almost daily workouts, whether it be my morning walk, run, and cardio, to teaching yoga and bellydance weekly, and going to the gym and working with a trainer.
Sadly as a coach, and movement instructor, I find some of my older friends ( and even younger ones), afraid to move, afraid to go back and try some dance or workouts, or even get on the dance floor at a club. They think they are too old. They have forgotten. They might get hurt. They can’t find the time to take a class, or won’t commit to their own bodies, even though they do remember the joy of the dance they knew in their younger days, and the freedom that a child experiences listening to music. As their bodies age, they are feeling the anxiety of having an older changing body, perhaps taking that body for granted and allowing themselves to get a bit sedentary. Sometimes the less you move, the more you hurt. Know what I mean? Time to work the creaks out.
I know when I don’t move, somehow, every day, I feel stuck, stagnant in my body, in my breath, and that changes how my day goes and how I feel. I’ve been getting out almost every morning for the past 8 years for a walk/run, sometimes just around the block, or maybe a 2 mile sprint. I”m not running a marathon. Just enjoying moving my body, getting outside, and it often becomes a moving meditation. Either enjoying the quiet, or listening to some tunes on my earbuds to keep me moving.
How many of you signed up for a dance or a yoga class, then felt too tired or too busy to go that day or night? But when you do go, you come away feeling high, exhilarated, and loving that you have participated in keeping yourself vibrant, strong, and enjoying your body, and perhaps the people in that class. Because you are shifting your energy, practicing movement, doing good things for your body, your breath, and your well-being. That’s the feeling, to feel great!
Music gets me motivated, inspired. Sometimes I use it to raise my energy, sometimes to relax. Instrumentals can be great to dance with or chill to. Lyrics can be emotional, exciting, inspiring too. Listening to music and allowing yourself to dance, whatever kind of movement, can just feed the soul. The music you choose can be empowering for who you are, what you stand for, and help you get moving. Certain songs can set you on fire, and others can reduce anxiety.
So, my friend, think about what tunes inspire you, for whatever mood, and allow yourself to move, to dance, whether that be in the kitchen as you cook dinner, or in a dance class, or in a club, or at the gym, or wherever.
Here you go! This is a playlist of softer, some more trancey, and some more upbeat that I have been using in my dance class, enjoy!
Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7Ia8O3oQeUbDqKdgngWvyL
What are you listening to these days? What gets your groove on? Make a playlist and enjoy…
Have a blessed week and get your groove on,
Paulette
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How fun are all the things???
In Person Classes in the Desert
:an exploration of the chakras with
a journey of self-discovery,
starting Monday, April 17th, 6-7:30 pm in Palm Springs!
Starting April 17th we will, each week, have group discussions about our 7 main chakras, wearing colors for each week to match the chakras, and add in meditations, journaling, movement, and sound baths! Yummy!
For the first week, wear something red, if you desire!
Here’s a little weekly update:
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AND ANOTHER NEW OFFERING!
a Women’s Monthly New Moon Gathering
with Leslie Gerber and Paulette Rees-Denis
Join our monthly circle for a circle of connection, healing, support, and fun with bellydance and movement, sound healing, and journaling!
Honoring our feminine divine within and moving your body for joy, connecting with the goddess, and setting new moon intentions for each month. A celebration of YOU!
Sundays April 23, 6-7:30 pm
Lavender Soul Studio in Palm Desert!
74-277 Highway 111, behind the front building, parking on the street…
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Tribal Bellydance in Palm Desert! First Class FREE!
We start a new session April 18th!
Tuesdays, 5:45pm
Bring a friend so they can try the first class for FREE- I love to offer that to new folks who aren’t sure about attending the class, or are even a little nervous, to see how much fun we have!
All levels of dance experience welcome, all ages, all sizes, all everything!
We love building our creative circle with dance, making magic with our bodies, feeling great in our skin, while we also strengthen and deepen our personal bodies and connections
$15.00 dropins or $66 for the 6 week session
please pre-register
https://globalcaravandance.com/product/tribal-bellydance-classes/
Lavender Soul Studio, 74-277 Highway 111
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VIRTUAL… Join me online…
Let’s talk about it…
Join me Mondays, at 2:00 pm PST for another Lively Conversation!
on FB- https://www.facebook.com/paulettecoach
and also on Insta at
https://www.instagram.com/paulettereesdenis/
a little chat, a poetry reading, oracle card pulling,
See you then
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Are you ready to take your journaling to the next level?
From the Body to the Page
You can join my weekly class, Tuesdays, 3:00 pm PST on Zoom and write with us for an hour of inspired prompts and profound sharing! truly a magical hour you can have every week…
just click here to join us…
https://www.paulettereesdenis.com/product/from-the-body-to-the-page/
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Are you ready for some coaching time with me?
Are you wanting to create some new changes?
Let’s step into this new moon time with some magic,
self-care, and your desires!
and get YOU on your calendar…
Curious about how that would look for you, your time, and your investment?
I want to talk with you to see if this could be the right next step for you to take new action!
Please schedule that free consultation now with me so we can talk about what you are wanting. Click here…
Hope to see you on the road somewhere, my friend! Again, thanks for being here…
Paulette
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How fun are all the things happening for spring???
In Person Classes in the Desert
:an exploration of the chakras with
a journey of self-discovery,
starting Monday, April 17th, 6-7:30 pm in Palm Springs!
Starting April 17th we will, each week, have group discussions about our 7 main chakras, wearing colors for each week to match the chakras, and add in meditations, journaling, movement, and sound baths! Yummy!
For the first week, wear something red, if you desire!
Here’s a little weekly update:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
AND ANOTHER NEW OFFERING!
a Women’s Monthly New Moon Gathering
with Leslie Gerber and Paulette Rees-Denis
Join our monthly circle for a circle of connection, healing, support, and fun with bellydance and movement, sound healing, and journaling!
Honoring our feminine divine within and moving your body for joy, connecting with the goddess, and setting new moon intentions for each month. A celebration of YOU!
Sundays April 23, 6-7:30 pm
Lavender Soul Studio in Palm Desert!
74-277 Highway 111, behind the front building, parking on the street…
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Tribal Bellydance in Palm Desert! First Class FREE!
We start a new session April 18th!
Tuesdays, 5:45pm
Bring a friend so they can try the first class for FREE- I love to offer that to new folks who aren’t sure about attending the class, or are even a little nervous, to see how much fun we have!
All levels of dance experience welcome, all ages, all sizes, all everything!
We love building our creative circle with dance, making magic with our bodies, feeling great in our skin, while we also strengthen and deepen our personal bodies and connections
$15.00 dropins or $66 for the 6 week session
please pre-register
https://globalcaravandance.com/product/tribal-bellydance-classes/
Lavender Soul Studio, 74-277 Highway 111
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VIRTUAL… Join me online…
Let’s talk about it…
Join me Mondays, at 2:00 pm PST for another Lively Conversation!
on FB- https://www.facebook.com/paulettecoach
and also on Insta at
https://www.instagram.com/paulettereesdenis/
a little chat, a poetry reading, oracle card pulling,
See you then
~~~~~~~~~~
Are you ready to take your journaling to the next level?
From the Body to the Page
You can join my weekly class, Tuesdays, 3:00 pm PST on Zoom and write with us for an hour of inspired prompts and profound sharing! truly a magical hour you can have every week…
just click here to join us…
https://www.paulettereesdenis.com/product/from-the-body-to-the-page/
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Are you ready for some coaching time with me?
Are you wanting to create some new changes?
Let’s step into this new moon time with some magic,
self-care, and your desires!
and get YOU on your calendar…
Curious about how that would look for you, your time, and your investment?
I want to talk with you to see if this could be the right next step for you to take new action!
Please schedule that free consultation now with me so we can talk about what you are wanting. Click here…
Hope to see you on the road somewhere, my friend! Again, thanks for being here…
April 7, 2023
Spring–Paulette’s Musings
Hello there, Happy Friday to you,
You know what? I am so glad you are here, here to share the journey, here to show up, here to be part of the tribe, here to be inspired and inspire… I have so much gratitude every day that I get to do what I do, that I get to have you as part of the story, and to share my stories with you, too. So thank you, from my heart, body, and soul.
Spring is upon us, and how does that feel to you? I love the freshness, the light changing, the buds popping up. It lends me to lots of journaling and poetry-making, so today I will share some of that with you.
I’d love it to inspire you to write/journal more too, think of this as a prompt for you! Then you can share with me, too…
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April 7, 2023
I must have a mind of Spring to regard
The freshness of what every day has to offer
A curious mindset of growth and the new possibilities
The emerging of opportunities showing themselves,
Sometimes shyly, peeking out from spirit
Sometimes in your face robust
Saying “Take me now, do it”
Sometimes the downloads are fleeting
One must hurry to gather, collect,
and sow the ideas quickly
Before they pass on to someone else
A spring-like regard to stepping up and stepping out
Participating in the blossoming
To show off the individuality of me
The quirky, the beautiful, the ugly, the glory,
The power, the desires
The downright action of standing tall, and still-mountain
In the early morning glowing sunrise
Often blinding in sky beauty
You are most observable
Whispering good morning and listen now
Coming with new beginnings
Sprouting aliveness and opening the petal doors
I am forever awed, never tiring of the whispering
The knock on my shoulder
Eyes wide open
Heart, body, and soul ready to receive
And then allowing myself to unfold like the buds
Then to dig out of the ground
Either difficult with the thick wet mud-like tenacity of comfort
Or the ease of loose desert sand leaping forward with the high wind energy
Ever bulldozing my path and leading the way
Some inspirations take me instantly
I can’t act fast enough
Even sometimes without thought-out actions
But with creative excitement
And others say “Here, but wait, keep listening”
Learning to listen is an act of art
With the power of creation
And that inquisitive light brightens
Getting sharper, hotter, burning, shadowing, then
Reclining, then softening back into darkness, saying
“We will begin again tomorrow”
Paulette Rees-Denis
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Since in my last class, and also always here in my SM, I’ve been talking about planting seeds, and making change for your desires…these ideas are continuing…
Here’s a great quote too, from Dakota Earth Walker:
So… journal time…
what are you planning for spring? why?what beginners mind can you bring into your dreams?what/who is inspiring you? why?what action can you take to move forward, baby steps?~~~~~~~~
Alright my love, thank you for taking the time to read and listen deep to your heart and body this week…
Have a blessed week,
Paulette
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How fun are all the things happening for spring???
In Person Classes in the Desert
:an exploration of the chakras with
a journey of self-discovery,
starting Monday, April 17th, 6-7:30 pm in Palm Springs!
Starting April 17th we will, each week, have group discussions about our 7 main chakras, wearing colors for each week to match the chakras, and add in meditations, journaling, movement, and sound baths! Yummy!
For the first week, wear something red, if you desire!
Here’s a little weekly update:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
AND ANOTHER NEW OFFERING!
a Women’s Monthly New Moon Gathering
with Leslie Gerber and Paulette Rees-Denis
Join our monthly circle for a circle of connection, healing, support, and fun with bellydance and movement, sound healing, and journaling!
Honoring our feminine divine within and moving your body for joy, connecting with the goddess, and setting new moon intentions for each month. A celebration of YOU!
Sundays April 23, 6-7:30 pm
Lavender Soul Studio in Palm Desert!
74-277 Highway 111, behind the front building, parking on the street…
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Tribal Bellydance in Palm Desert! First Class FREE!
We start a new session April 18th!
Tuesdays, 5:45pm
Bring a friend so they can try the first class for FREE- I love to offer that to new folks who aren’t sure about attending the class, or are even a little nervous, to see how much fun we have!
All levels of dance experience welcome, all ages, all sizes, all everything!
We love building our creative circle with dance, making magic with our bodies, feeling great in our skin, while we also strengthen and deepen our personal bodies and connections
$15.00 dropins or $66 for the 6 week session
please pre-register
https://globalcaravandance.com/product/tribal-bellydance-classes/
Lavender Soul Studio, 74-277 Highway 111
~~~~~~~~
VIRTUAL… Join me online…
Let’s talk about it…
Join me Mondays, at 2:00 pm PST for another Lively Conversation!
on FB- https://www.facebook.com/paulettecoach
and also on Insta at
https://www.instagram.com/paulettereesdenis/
a little chat, a poetry reading, oracle card pulling,
See you then
~~~~~~~~~~
Are you ready to take your journaling to the next level?
From the Body to the Page
You can join my weekly class, Tuesdays, 3:00 pm PST on Zoom and write with us for an hour of inspired prompts and profound sharing! truly a magical hour you can have every week…
just click here to join us…
https://www.paulettereesdenis.com/product/from-the-body-to-the-page/
~~~~~~~~~~
Are you ready for some coaching time with me?
Are you wanting to create some new changes?
Let’s step into this new moon time with some magic,
self-care, and your desires!
and get YOU on your calendar…
Curious about how that would look for you, your time, and your investment?
I want to talk with you to see if this could be the right next step for you to take new action!
Please schedule that free consultation now with me so we can talk about what you are wanting. Click here…
Hope to see you on the road somewhere, my friend! Again, thanks for being here…
March 24, 2023
Heart and Hustle with my guest Lee Chaix McDonough, Clarity Coach #156
Visionary Healers, Movers, and Shakers,
with your host and lifestyle coach,
Paulette Rees-Denis
with my guest today,
Lee Chaix McDonough,
Clarity Coach and so much more! Episode #156
Hello there! How excited am I to introduce Lee to you today!
Meet Lee! And enjoy our conversation on Heart and Hustle!
I so love these short chats/interviews/discussions that I share with you, networking, stepping into curiosity about others’ stories, how they built their businesses, and what they are bringing to the world! Making magic!!
More about Lee:
Lee Chaix McDonough is the founder of Coach With Clarity, a training and education company for life and business coaches. She is also the host of the Coach with Clarity podcast and author of the #1 Amazon bestseller, ACT On Your Business: Braving the storms of entrepreneurship and creating success through meaning, mindset, and mindfulness.
Originally a clinical social worker and healthcare professional, Lee has leveraged those skills into her career as a credentialed coach. Now she’s helping others change their career path trajectories by providing ICF-accredited training and continuing education via the Coach With Clarity framework, an approach that combines meaning, mindset, and mindfulness with coaching skill and business strategy.
Lee’s passion is helping coaches and clients achieve their personal and professional dreams, which she does through her training programs and one-on-one services. Lee’s empathic nature and desire to truly connect with people help her stand out from the crowd, allowing her clients and students to feel deeply seen and heard. You aren’t just a face in a crowd when working with Lee.
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https://youtu.be/R20BLQo22Rs
Also you can listen in on
SoundCloud/ITunes while you are on the run!
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Take some time to enjoy listening and watching, and then let me know your takeaways…Blessings to you, my friend, and enjoy your upcoming weekend too!
Paulette
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Make sure to check out my weekly
Lively Conversations
on FB and Insta, Mondays, 2:00 pm PST!
Here is this week’s replay…
Another Lively Conversation with me, Paulette Rees-Denis! Whoa, all the things – spring cleaning, believing, asking , allowing,
new moon, Aries sun and fire energy, bam!
https://www.instagram.com/p/CqBppOspbIN/
Love you to join us every Monday…don’t be shy!
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Movement, Momentum. and Magic Creative Coaching!
Are you ready for some coaching with me?
Let’s step into Spring and get YOU on your calendar…
Curious about how that would look for you, your time, and your investment?
Want to talk with me to see if this could be the right next step for you to step into your desires and take some action!.
Please schedule that free consultation now with me so we can talk about your desires. Click here…
