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Ch ch ch changes! (thanks David Bowie!)

Hello friend!

This is just a short email to tell you about some upcoming changes in my social media world! I always  think of the fab David Bowie song!

Exciting and a  bit of a pain, too, I will say, going around and changing all my emails, after years and years of having the same email, and I don’t want to lose you... (unless of course you want to be lost )

But it’s time for a change, I’m stepping up further into my work as a coach and leader of creative women, in all the creative fields: dance, writing, music, and however you choose to create in this world! I’m here for you…

So my new website won’t be up for another couple of months, but my email list is changing, watch for those changes to happen in just a few days…and my blogs will be changing too…

But do make note: if you want to reach me

for Movement, Momentum, and Magic — Lifestyle Coaching for Creatives: paulette@paulettereesdenis.com

For Facebook: my personal page has a new name and addy: https://www.facebook.com/paulettecoach

My business page for my coaching is also the same: https://www.facebook.com/paulettereesdenis

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for all things Global Caravan related: paulette@globalcaravandance.com

My business page for Global Caravan is the same:  https://www.facebook.com/GypsyCaravanDanceCompany

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And my Instagram is still the same: https://www.instagram.com/paulettereesdenis/

Come on over and join me there also!

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I’m excited to be making these changes, and to bring your more awesome inspirations, video podcast with amazing folk ( going on 4 years, over 105 episodes!), some new mini workshops, a writing class, and to share what my certified dancers, GC Teachers, and GC Master Teachers are doing. Don’t miss out, join my community of creatives and let’s uplift each other….

More info to follow…

as always, I am so grateful to share with you, to be part of your tribe and that you are here with me on our journey!

 

 

 

***And if you want to hear the whole song by Mr.Bowie, here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl3vxEudif8

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Heart and Hustle: with artist and healer, Deborah Epstein, Episode #115

Heart and Hustle: Visionary Healers, Movers, And Shakers
with Paulette Rees-Denis,

with artist and healer, Deborah Epstein, Episode #115

Magical Dreaming… that is what we love to talk about! Right?

So welcome to this week’s episode of Heart and Hustle, with my guest, Deborah Epstein, who is a mult-passionate creator, which is why I was so drawn to her and her work…

We talk about how pain can create change, and how she tapped into her physical and emotional pain and turned that into different forms of bodywork, energy work, and putting all that into her art and her current work as a shamanic healer. Pretty wow!

Dream space, and how we create our own reality, Deb and I talk about truth in our experiences and telling stories. I think you will really enjoy our conversation and how it may shift your way of looking at your world and what you can create for yourself too. Art becomes energy becomes matter! Our work is ever-evolving and listen to how Deb creative story has grown… and is creating a healing mythology… so much inspired action!

Give us a look and listen and let us know your inspirations from this conversation! I loved this so much…

~~~~~~~~More about Deborah:Deborah Epstein, LMT is the founder and CEO of Oasis Healing Arts, LLC, and Deborah Epstein Studio.She is a visionary artist, shamanic practitioner, and Myofascial Release Therapist.She received her art education from Rhode Island School of Design and studied art and healing facilitation at Salve Regina. She is a Reiki Master, Studied Theta Healing, Craniosacral therapy, is an initiate in the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition of Cross-Cultural Shamanism taught by don Oscar Miro Quesada. A licensed massage therapist, Deborah has owned her own private practice offering Myofascial Release, a healing modality founded by John F. Barnes, PT. Deborah was an instructor for Myofascial Release Seminars, and staff therapist at Therapy on The Rocks, in Sedona Az, one of John Barnes’ two clinics in the country. After working at TOR for three years, she followed her dream: to blend Artistic expression, shamanic ceremony, and Myofascial Release, and founded Oasis Healing Arts, LLC. Deborah currently lives in Sedona and offers private 1:1 healing experiences in Sedona, AZ, on-line 1:1, private and group mentoring, and in-person 1:1 healing programs using creative expression, shamanic journeywork and Embodywork (a blending of Myofascial Release and body-centered healing modalities).   ***And Deborah has a gift for you for listening in!Grab the Gift Link: Becoming the light in the shadowhttps://lifeisartsummit.com/becoming-the-light-in-the-dark/

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Stay strong and healthy and dream your magic!

 

 

 

 

**Special announcement: Please make note of my email address change!

I have a new email address: paulette@paulettereesdenis.com for my coaching work…

For all my dance work, you can use paulette@globalcaravandance.com

 

I would love you to subscribe to my videopodcast here on Vimeo!

Also see on YouTube, Soundcloud

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Would you like to join my email community, over on my website, and get my free guide for inspiration ideas or my free book! Click here…www.paulettereesdenis.com

And please forward this to your friends who would be interested in joining up and watching and reading about our gatherings and more… thank you for spreading the love!

My book is available here… and on Amazon...
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Heart and Hustle: Global Caravan dancer and teacher, Wendy Hughes, Episode #114

Heart and Hustle: Visionary Healers, Movers, And Shakers
with Paulette Rees-Denis,

Today with guest, Global Caravan dancer and teacher, Wendy Hughes, Episode #114

Happy Monday!

Welcome to another episode of Heart and Hustle! Today I am happy to have a conversation with the only certified Global Caravan Tribal Bellydance Certified Teacher in Wales! Wendy has been studying with me for 10+ years and has successfully grown her own tribe and her dance business, Her new career, is what she calls a hobby, and as an older woman and dancer, she retired as a nurse! and continues on her dancing path, and continues to invest in herself and her passion!

She really started dancing just for herself, and now realizes the dance that she loves has made such a deep impact on the other dancers she has taught and inspired.

Such a pleasure to watch how Wendy has stepped into the role as not just a passionate dancer, but a Principal Teacher in my company, following years of determined study, with several levels of certification through me!  She has traveled around the globe to dance with me as well as her dancing partners and  other teachers and students! And she is enjoying every bit of it!

Let me know what you think and how this inspired you to go after your dreams too!

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More about Wendy!

I am the director of my tribal bellydance troupe Topaz Tribal. I would never have considered myself a dancer nor a teacher, yet here I am, in this current climate of lockdown during a pandemic of Covid 19, teaching four classes a week online, from my own home, via zoom.

I discovered bellydance around 2001 and quickly became addicted. The music, the costumes, the dance, the movement, the freedom I felt when I danced. I went on to discover Global Caravan Tribal Bellydance in 2009 and once I had met Paulette and taken one workshop with her, I knew that I had to have more.

So I did! My first certification for the Collective Soul and Teacher Training was in 2011 in Milan, Italy. I had never travelled abroad on my own before. I went again for a second helping and qualifications for CS levels 2 & 3, plus TT2. I did my TT3 online with Paulette. Then the biggie – in 2017, I travelled to the USA to Florida where I got my CS4, 5 & 6. Plus I gained the Tribal Grooves teaching certification in levels 1 & 2. Another trip across the blue a year later in 2018, I gained Teaching Levels 4 & 5 plus Principal Teacher Status. My life couldn’t get any better. I have been to Morocco to teach, I visit Egypt every year with my husband on holiday and stun them there with the earthy moves and grounded technique.

I am retired now at 66. I spent 30+ years as a Registered Mental Health Nurse, a pretty hectic and all-encompassing career. High spots – people get well and go home, lowest ebb – I was seriously injured which started my decline to my retirement.

Apart from my family of husband, four children, 11 grandchildren and my elderly mum at 91, I also have four cats, my furry friends.

I love sewing, make as much of my costumes for myself and for the troupe as I can, plus regular daywear.

I love to bake and can easily lose myself for an afternoon fluffed up in flour. I’m looking forward to the day we are released and I can have the family around.

Life is good for me. I am truly grateful for everything I have, everything I can have. I have worked hard to have a very blessed life and I will help anyone/anywhere I can. I am so so lucky to be in good health and surrounded by true and wonderful friends.

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Enjoy my friend, thank you for being here… be well!

 

 

 

 

Special announcement: 

I have a new email address: paulette@paulettereesdenis.com

 

Please subscribe to our video podcast!

Also see on Vimeo, YouTube, Soundcloud

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Would you like to join my email community, over on my website, and get my free guide for inspiration ideas or my free book! Click here…www.paulettereesdenis.com

And please forward this to your friends who would be interested in joining up and watching and reading about our gatherings and more… thank you for spreading the love!

My book is available here… and on Amazon...
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So delighted to share this new class from Cinzia,a magnificent woman!

hello love…

If you have been around me at all, you know how I love to share others’ stories and work, my client’s successes, to network and help you find your tribes, to coach you to be the best you, and inspire you with great bits…

Well …today, I am incredibly proud and also just dang excited to share a long-time student, friend, client, and one of my Global Caravan Master Teachers new course…omgoddess, this is so amazing. Combining dance and yoga and divine feminine empowerment with so much, meditations, breathing techniques, as well as body strengthening, and so much Cinzia has to offer you to make you feel like the goddess you are!

Cinzia Di Cioccio, who some of you may know, from Milan Italy, has been dancing ( GCTB) and teaching yoga for 16+ years. She has developed a signature course, called Adi Shakti Flow, that starts next Monday…

And I share this with you, not only because I want to help support her, and also introduce you to this couse because it is incredibly innovative, informative, and a magical style that will make you feel like the divine goddess you are! I love to dance and move, and I always want you to experiment with movement to get your energy rising and feel the love in your body.

This class is about the divine feminine goddess within you, and is a monthly or subscription-based course to learn about the mythological goddesses and the movements to bring that energy into your body…

AND not only the course, but she has a FREE Masterclass on Sunday… to give you bits and pieces what this new concept is about! On Sunday February 28th at 12pm Italian Time Cinzia will give a free presentation lesson. Different time zones around the globe, so sign up to get the replay if you cannot make it in person!

If you want to participate, register here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0ld-6upzoiHNAEYCRnS8K9qYxTdu7ypkBS

Cinzia says:

I have long wanted to combine Yoga and Dance in one practice and Adi Sakti Flow is the answer to this quest. Adi Sakti Flow is a fluid workout inspired by yoga and dance. Adi Sakti Flow is an effective and restorative practice that gently builds strength, flexibility, endurance, but also releases mental and emotional tension through breathing and meditation. Adi Sakti Flow is inspired by some stories from ancient Indian myths about the different expressions of MahaShakti, the female creative energy. It is a sequence of movements to celebrate the female body that will allow you to deepen your connection with your inner female creative energy.

Check out two presentations of her short presentations here…

Https://vimeo.com/514311353

https://vimeo.com/437377889

Adi Shakti Flow Program starts Monday, March 1st 2021 for 5 months, ( or month to month) , with each month a new sequence. It‘s a Do It Yourself program available online, so you can do the practice at your own pace, with the freedom to put it in your calendar for your self-care time. There will be lots of activities for you: videos to learn and drill the sequences, meditations, breathing exercises, pdfs, sequence charts plus weekly connections, Q&A , homework and a private FB group where we can connect.”

See her website at: https://cinziadicioccio.com/

Make sure to sign up for her free masterclass and see how this lovely and profound movement course can feel so good in your body, mind, and spirit!

Register here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0ld-6upzoiHNAEYCRnS8K9qYxTdu7ypkBS

I can’t wait for you to experience the beauty, grace, skill, generosity of Cinzia and what she has created for you… Let me know how it goes!

And enjoy your weekend… thanks for being here,

 

 

 

 

And please forward this to your friends who would be interested in joining up… thank you for spreading the love!

www.paulettereesdenis.co m

My book is available here…, and on Amazon...
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Heart and Hustle and guest the Artemist, Joyce van der Lely, Episode #113

Heart and Hustle: Visionary Healers, Movers, And Shakers
with Paulette Rees-Denis,

Today with guest, the Artemist, Joyce van der Lely, Episode #113

Today Joyce, my inspired guest from New Zealand, and I talk about art, travel, escapism, shadows and opportunities, pattern interruptions! What about those earthquakes she experienced and how that moved her forward, off of her hamster wheel of sameness, wow!

She is an artist, photographer, and a dreamer. And her alter ego, Pippi Longstalking-how many of you remember that little girl with the crazy pigtails… she always wanted to have fun in life, a great possibilitarian. Nothing like keeping childlike curiosity in life!

Enjoy our conversation, and let us know your takeaways! So fun… plus Joyce has gift for you, see her link down below…

Have a watch and listen:

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Thanks everyone for watching, please subscribe to help keep these interviews happening,

and here is to being a thriving artist ( not a struggling artist)!

 

And Joyce has a free gift for you! Explore your five senses….

Click here: https://theartemist.com/theGift/

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More about Joyce:

Joyce van der Lely is an Art Alchemist, Shamanic Creative, Guide, Teacher and Mentor. She helps Creative Entrepreneurs and other Magical Misfits to make their mark and bring more of their dreams into our world.

Born in the Netherlands Joyce moved to the opposite side of the globe to New Zealand and has been living there for about half her life now. She had a really big awakening experience losing almost all in the 2010/2011 earthquakes in Christchurch. It truly transformed her life and how she chose to work from then on: Using creative expression as medicine and weaving the magic of this into everything she does.

She’s also a mum to two highly creative teenagers and her soul mate is always in the wings or backstage supporting her wild wanderings. Some fun facts: Pippi Longstocking has been her sidekick/heroine ever since she was a little girl. Joyce loves licorice and avocados, spicy food, blue cheese and black coffee.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/theartemist

https://www.instagram.com/joycevanderlely/

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Enjoy my friend, thank you for being here… be well!

 

 

 

 

Also see on Vimeo, YouTube, Soundcloud

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Would you like to join my email community, over on my website, and get my free guide for inspiration ideas or my free book! Click here…www.paulettereesdenis.com

And please forward this to your friends who would be interested in joining up and watching and reading about our gatherings and more… thank you for spreading the love!

My book is available here…, and on Amazon...
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Should I stay or should I go? Heart and Hustle Live- tomorrow, the last one…

Heart and Hustle Live
with Paulette Rees-Denis,

Hello pet!

My weekly Live podcast – Heart and Hustle Live…

tomorrow, Tuesday, 10:30 am PST, here on FB

I always have some sort of theme for these weekly chats, which I’ve been doing for over 3  years! I so love connecting with you on these chats, even though I can’t see you.

TOPIC: When do you know  when to take a break?

Let’s talk about it… the question of “should I stay or should I go:?Listening into your own heart…I would love to have you on the FB Live with me… bring your questions and comments…https://www.facebook.com/tribalbellydancing/

Tomorrow will be my Iast FB Live for awhile. I’ve got lots of new creations in the works for you, including some new mini workshops!, with such great topics as creativity coaching, soul searching, writing from your body, feminine celebration, and more.  I’m working on a new website and rewriting my content pages, and what I do, as a coach, for you, and a writer, for me, and for you. Exciting stuff. I love the idea of rewriting what you desire, and how you want to change it up! But knowing when to say no is imperative, and stopping something that has become a habit!

See you tomorrow…

Oh, and later this week, on my video podcast, Heart and Hustle: Visoinary Healers, Movers, and Shakers, will be with my amazing guest from New Zealand, the Artemist, Joyce van der Lelly! She is a creative strategist for multi-passonate women, and we have an enlightening conversation… Watch for it here…

Thank you for being here… see you tomorrow, here…

 

 

 

 

Make sure to sign up on my website, and get my free guide for inspiration ideas or my free book!

And please forward this to your friends who would be interested in joining up and reading about our gatherings and more… thank you for spreading the love!

www.paulettereesdenis.co m

My book is available here…, and on Amazon...
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Are you feeling soulless?

Are you feeling soulless? I think it is going around….this pandemic time is straining so many of us.

It’s like feeling empty, and like you don’t know what to do next? Which way to turn? Which project to focus on? I feel like this sometimes, in my continuous business building as well as my personal life. It happens. I question what I’m feeling or what I’m working on. Which means it is a good time for quiet time, reflection, and often asking for some guidance.

It’s good to ask yourself what has changed? Which direction do you need to go next? And who are you working for? Is this work meaningful anymore? Is there something I would rather do?

For me, as a coach, I always want to work with my perfect clients — called your ICA, or your Ideal customer avatar. This could be your students, your customers, the ones who want what you do, and who want  and are ready to do the work to make the changes. You want to make sure you are reaching the right people with the problems that you help solve. The right customers for your shop, the right clients for your paintings, the right dancers for your class.  Right? Because if you are connecting with people who have no interest in what you do, then it can feel like you are spinning your wheels and abusing your time and skills. Who wants to waste time like that? 

I want to make sure what I have to offer is of value, to the right person. In my work as a creativity business coach, I help women creatives release the old stories that are stopping them from moving forward, and guide them to rewriting their desires into their lives. From that soulless feeling to stepping into their creative abundance ( as I write about it my latest book). This can be in their personal life, and also in their creative business dreams. Many of my clients have started their own businesses, successfully, changed careers to feeling more fulfilled, stepped into their money making skills, and super focused on their self-worth and how to create what they dream of. And that feels so good, for both of us, rewarding them for taking the time and steps for themselves, and for me doing the work that I’m really good at.

So… what do you do when you are feeling low, soulless, even lethargic? 

First, I say, move your body! 

You want to take that first step. You want to shift your energy, get off the couch, take a deep breath and move your god pod! That‘s what we are focusing on over in my Dance with Desire women’s private group this week. Changing up the way we move. Trying something new, or creating a new workout habit. It is about uplifting yourself, and creating an energetic and vibrational shift through your being. No one else can do that for you. You make the decision…which means paying attention to yourself and your body and asking yourself what you are wanting, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. 

You know how you feel after a dance class, that maybe you did not even want to go to, but afterwards you have a glisten on, and your spirits are raised! Or getting outside and taking a walk, a run, a bike ride, pumping up your heart rate and juicing up your joints. Or how about a lovely quiet and slow yoga type stretching session….ohhh delicious…

And then notice, acknowledge the shift. This is a great way to start creating new changes for yourself, feeling better about yourself, and what you can do. It doesn’t solve everything, but a great beginning to get some soul back into your life, into your work, and empower yourself. 

**Why don’t you create a new movement habit for yourself? Starting today… get outside of the box and try something different for your body and your energy… Let me know if I can help you, and what you come up with…  join us over in my Dance with Desire group too for some movement prompts this week… here…. for some support and encouragement! 

Let me know how you do. Now, I’m going out for my morning run and get some energy for the day… see you soon!

 

 

***I’d love to work with you if you are wanting more guidance and support, so I’m offering my From Chaos to Creativity Breakthrough Session, to you to see how I can help you and what is next for you, to move you into your creative abundance! Schedule that call with me here…

Join me on Tuesday, 10:30 am PST for this week’s Heart and Hustle Live...right here on FB….

This week I want to talk with you about what you can do when you are feeling empty, or soulless. Not quite sure which way to turn or what to do next… ever feel like that? Let’s talk…

Get my book here!

Make sure to sign up on my website, and get my free guide for inspiration ideas or my free book!

And please forward this to your friends who would be interested in joining up and reading about our gatherings and more… thank you for spreading the love!

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Heart and Hustle and guest women’s biz coach and uplifter, and horse friend, Kami Guildner, Episode #112

Heart and Hustle: Visionary Healers, Movers, And Shakers
with Paulette Rees-Denis,

Today with guest women’s biz coach and uplifter, and horse friend,

Kami Guildner, Episode #112

I really love this interview with Kami Guildner, she’s like my soul sister! We are doing such similar work in the world, and so great to share this conversation with you… Collaboration, feminine ways of doing business, growing and holding space for our tribes, during these pandemic times. She left the corporate world years ago and we talk about her journey from that life to her life now, which she writes about in her book: Firedancer, and has an oracle card deck called Pony Ponderings.

Kami has a great story about connecting with her horse and that helped her to find her new path. Kami is a woods-walker. A sky-gazer. A horse-lover. Raised on the wide-open plains of Colorado against the majestic Rocky Mountains, wilderness fueled her soul from an early age. With a young enchanted mind, she gained an early understanding that the natural world brings clarity, provides space to dream, and opens our eyes to views of worlds unseen before us.

She also has a podcast, Extraordinary Women Radio, and has a passion for helping women #RaiseUP their voices and shine their light, because she believes that right now women’s voices are more important than ever. She loves to weave spirit and business and help women #RaiseUP their businesses for impact. For her, it’s all about the ripple effect…Hello sister! Just what I love to do with this interview series… so exciting to hear other’s stories…

So have a watch and listen, and let me know what you think!

Good Aha moment: Let go and listen!

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More about Kami:

Kami Guildner believes women’s voices matter. She is a connector. A storyteller. A business coach for changemaker women of influence.

Kami’s entrepreneurial journey was sparked by the breath of a horse over a decade ago. This magical epiphany moment led Kami to discover her purpose of leading high vibe entrepreneurs to give voice to their most important messages and create a ripple effect of worldly impact.

Kami weaves soulful-inspiration into mindful business strategies, helping her clients up-level their business. With decades of leadership, marketing, strategic planning and business growth expertise, Kami guides her clients to master their marketing, money and mindset. Kami’s soulful spirit leads her clients to unleash their magical manifestation powers and live out loud fueled with vitality and courage.

She is the Best Selling author of Firedancer: Your Spiral Journey to a Life of Passion and Purpose and Pony Pondering Inspiration Cards.

Kami was recently named to the 2020 Twenty-Five Most Powerful Women in Business List by the Colorado Women’s Chamber of Commerce.

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Did you love this conversation? So many good ideas to ponder, and how we are being called to show up in the world!

Enjoy my friend, thank you for being here… be well!

 

 

 

 

and please subscribe to this podcast!

Also see on Vimeo, YouTube, Soundcloud

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Join me next week for my weekly Live podcast – Heart and Hustle Live…

now at a new day and time: Tuesdays, 10:30 am PST, here on FB

Make sure to sign up on my website, and get my free guide for inspiration ideas or my free book!

And please forward this to your friends who would be interested in joining up and reading about our gatherings and more… thank you for spreading the love!

www.paulettereesdenis.co m

My book is available here…, and on Amazon...
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Moving Forward with Intention! and FB Live today!

Moving Forward with Intention!

I say this all the time to my dancers and my clients. Move forward from the heart, stand tall, shoulders back, and open up the front of your body as you walk/dance forward. And really mean it! Showing up with intention. And that feels so good, so right, on point. Moving towards feeling fulfilled. Doing something that has meaning.

Today that’s what I’m talking about on my Heart and Hustle Live, and I’m switching times again, back to Tuesdays, at 10:30 am PST, right here on my FB page.

I love coming to you every week on my FB Lives, which I call Heart and Hustle Live, to connect, offer support, share insights, laughter, and even poetry. I like to talk about what makes your heart sing, what is important, and give some ideas and inspirations to guide you as your creativity biz coach.

I hope you can join me today and share in the conversation as we talk about curiosity, imagination, and celebrations too! Click on over to my FB page at 10:30 am PST and I’ll see you there…

with excitement on moving forward!

Please subscribe to my weekly blog, and feel free to share this post with anyone who may enjoy it and could use a little boost! Blessings…

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Freedom Friday Musings and a few easy ways to release anxiety…

Freedom Friday Musings and a few easy ways to release anxiety…

Freedom Friday!

I was thinking earlier today about making every Friday, Freedom Friday! Time to reflect, time to write, look back at the week, and what is to come. And make sure that I was honoring my values, the highest one being of having the freedom to live and work my life the way that I desire, the way that feels really good to me, and gives me the freedom to do what I truly want, serving my purpose with the highest good, making a difference in the world, and having fun while doing that… Truth… 

This last week has been a bit of a roller coaster for me, up, down, up, down, round and round…distractions, not getting things done the way I wanted, feeling low, with low energy, even sad. I did not want to kick myself, judge myself, but instead, to acknowledge what I was feeling inside and out. We all need time for a reset, right? 

And with the full moon telling me to stop work and go out and lighten up! Have some fun… so I took the morning off work, ( there’s that freedom thing!) and went for a short 4-mile hike in the gorgeous canyons that are my backyard, with good friends, in the sun… a walking meditation… soul revival, feeding my body and soul, because I was not feeling in alignment with myself. Nothing in particular, really, just, you know, off… have you ever felt that way? How often?

That icky feeling doesn’t come for me that often anymore, not as it did years ago. Because I do live every day with my values and I set my intentions, and live with as much truth and beauty and embodiment as I can. Dancing my talk. But really, we all have these days, when you are just freakin’ tired, and you are sick of working or need to breathe. Get off the couch. Step away from the office. Go outside and breathe! Ask for guidance. Dance. Meditate. Laugh. Cry. Eat a piece of cake. 

These times are still so different, even though it has been a year since the pandemic. It’s still hard to get used to it. 

How about you? Does your soul and body feel in alignment with each other? Do you feel your sense of freedom? Why or why not? What do you do to have that total feeling of alignment?

As I was contemplating this for myself this week, I wanted to share with you just a few quick techniques that I use to come back to my calm, to release the anxiety of overwhelm, confusion, sadness. I love to share tools and tips with my clients all the time. This is normal, my friend. When you get into a funk…And yes, there are lots of things you can do, as mentioned above. 

But one of the quickest is simply to focus on your breath! Come back to yourself, step away, and in just a few moments, change your energy, raise your energy, warm the body…And that is by doing some simple breathing exercises…focus on yourself.

Take time for yourself, my friend. Recovery time, self-care time, focus on uplifting yourself! 

In my Facebook live this week, I decided to share just a few breathing exercises. I teach these to my weekly Yoga Flow classes, and dance classes, too. So good, for cleansing, for energizing , and immune-boosting too- which we all need right now, to stay healthy and strong…

Pranayama…Simple breathing techniques for immune building and energy lifting:

Ujjayi Breathing- when you breathe in and then out of your nostrils while constricting the throat, keeping the mouth closedA slow inhale and exhale with 7 bursts of air out of the nostrils, while emptying out all of the airEven just a coherent breathing pattern of slowing down each inhale for 5 counts through the nose, and exhale 5 counts through the mouth (known to cause greater performances in athletes!) and get you into your flow state!

Ahhhh, so good…

I love coming to you every week on my FB Lives, which I call Heart and Hustle Live, to connect, offer support, share insights, laughter, and even poetry.

You can view the replay here, and practice along with me…I’d love to know how you do… and how it helps to shift your energy…

Oh, and by the way, I’m switching times again, back to Tuesdays, at 10:30 am PST, right here on my FB page… hope you can join me next week, mark your calendars for some fun!

So dear one, be patient with yourself when you feel low, or slow, or tired, or just lackadaisical… switch gears, take a break, go outside, and breathe!

Know that I’m here for you, and YOU, have an outstanding weekend! Take that deep breath and enjoy…

 

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