Posted by: ekstasisdance on: February 8, 2010
Creating Big Shifts
This past weekend I just went to San Francisco to participate in a workshop that was facilitated by my coaches at Bill Baren Coaching. I was reminded of the power of setting clear intentions, and then following through with commitment and action.
I had the wonderful experience of setting a clear intention, and then allowing the Universe to conspire to set up the perfect situation for that intention to manifest. And I know that if I wasn’t willing to fully participate in what the universe was setting up for me, fully and completly, then I wouldn’t have experienced the Big Shift that I did.
I also became aware that the shifts that happened this weekend were more powerful when I was held and witnessed by the whole group, and supported by the facilitators – than the shifts that I worked on myself.
Even for me, with the strength and dedication of my own practice – there are times I want to be held in loving presence by an outside witness – so that I can fully let go and allow the shift to happen, and then fully anchor and ground it in my whole being by the power of being seen in it.
What is the Big Shift you want to create in your life? Are you trying to do it all on your own?
I know that you can create it for yourself, and I also know that it can be easier and more powerful when you can allow yourself to be held in that shift, to be presenced into the process – and gently facilitated through it.
Its my passion to create safe sacred spaces for you to delve deeply into yourself and experience the freedom and connection that happens when you can truly let go – surrender. And to create the supportive community in which we can all hold each other in the highest vision of who we are, and sometimes see a higher vision for each other that it more than we can even see for ourselves.
That is what is happening here at Ekstasis Dance, and I am excited about the Big Shifts that are a happening now and feel the ones to come!
My current vision is a world where people (especially women) are blissfully powerful, vibrant, passionate and awake – and are truly offering thier souls gift to the world. Imagine what the world would look like…… how it would be……
I ask you to hold that vision with me….to let me know how we can work together to co-create that vision….
Then I am sure there will be some really BIG SHIFTS this year!!
all my love
Luna
Posted by: ekstasisdance on: January 29, 2010
I am on a journey of continuing to bring myself into a state of balance. A few years ago I was made aware that I was seriously out of contact with my feminine side.
I started to become aware that this imbalance was also starting to really affect my health and wellbeing – on all levels – physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. Physically I felt exhausted, out of touch with my body, tight, drained of vitality, dull, stressed out and experiencing menstrual issues. Emotionally I felt closed, depressed, and less joyful. Mentally I felt extremly stretched and over worked. And spiritually I felt like I was truly missing an important piece of my being.
And as this awareness grew – I also noticed that many other women around me also seemed to be out of touch with their feminine side. It has inspired in me a passion to deeply support myself and other women in my community and the community at large regain as sense of connection to the feminine within them.
Its now my practice to take some time each day to nourish my feminine side. The feminine energy seems to be connected to non-doing, being, play, sensuality, receptivity, the body, movement, creativity and nature.
Do you have ways that you nourish your feminine side?
Some of my current daily practices are: dancing and movement, yoga and stretching, reading, going for a walk in nature, deep belly and pranic breathing, self oil massage, writing, listening to music and hot relaxing baths.
One of my favorites is to put on whatever music inspires me in the moment, and close my eyes and then just let my body move in whatever way feels good in the moment… this might turn into stretching or full out ecstatic dancing. I deeply listen to what feels good, nuturing and nourishing in that moment. What is going to leave me feeling blissful, ecstatic and rejuvenated.
I also find that hanging out with other women deeply nourishing to my feminine side… just being with each other, connecting, talking and just enjoying each others company is all it takes.
I feel I am still on the path to discovering what will bring me more balance and deep nourishment… as I often have my moments of putting my work, my actions, my doing, my achievements before really taking care of myself.
I would love to hear where you are on this journey….
all of my love
Luna
Posted by: ekstasisdance on: January 22, 2010
“I dance to become empty, I empty to become full.”
This is the phrase that is flowing through my awareness today, as I relax into the spaciousness of just being.
I ask myself what I am emptying of….. the busyness of the mind, the hecticness of the day, the stress of life, the needing to be this or to be that, the hurts and pains my journey has brought me, the closures, the illusions…
And what do I yearn to become full of….. full of love, full of truth, full of peace, full of energy, full of radiant light, full of vitality, full of sensual pleasure, full of the divine.
So my dance becomes this practice of letting go what doesn’t belong here anymore, the things I have taken on, picked up, let stick during my day, my week, my life. And creating a beautiful spaciousness in which I can receive that which I most desire… and fill up with that.
Its my experience that it takes a great amount of courage and SURRENDER… to truly empty myself. Sometime I think I am doing the dance of letting go, and find really its the dance of holding on, justifying, and magnifying whatever it is I really want to let go of.
And I embrace that sometimes it is about becoming more intimate with, and fully being with that which is filling my being and yet not serving me – until I really GET deep in my being its time to let it go.
And when it IS time, I fully offer my whole being into the dance and offering myself to the crucible of not knowing – and in my fullest surrender I become free – i become empty….
and then I become FULL.
This fullness come from a place of opening to the unlimited possibility that comes when I detach myself from what I think I “know” and let go into the space of the unknown. It is a vast fertile space to really CREATE from a place of awareness of the larger pattern, from universal awareness, higher self – so that I align with what I most yearn for – and let that fill my entire being.
AND when I am full of what I most yearn for – my external reality starts to mirror it, and at the same time I become less attatched to how my external reality appears, and instead am able to radiate what I am full of – letting it fill the space around me, and offering it to others.
It is this state I being that I also desire for you… as I envision a world where we can all be filled with that which most aligns with the divinity that we are… radiating from us – so that our external reality becomes just an extension of who we truly are.
namaste
Luna
Posted by: ekstasisdance on: January 21, 2010
After a long time of dreaming about it, envisioning it… I am excited to share a brand new creation!
Do you want to:
- feel more grounded and alive in your body
- deepen intimacy, and experience better sex
- live with more purpose, passion, and power
- create healthy loving relationships
- find freedom in expressing yourself
- relieve stress and experience inner peace
- stay connected to your essence throughout your day
- reclaim the divine feminine within
If your heart is yearning for any of this at this time, this is why I am unvieling my new Ecstatic Embodiment program – so that you can experience all of that and more!
Learn more about it here - http://ekstasisdance.com/ecstaticembodiment.htm
The benefits of the program are:
- 5 Months of unlimited access to all Ekstasis Dance classes offered at Village Lifestyles
- Personalalized Private Sessions to support you on the journey
- A 5 Class Series to awaken your soul’s gifts and reclaim the divine feminine within
- A Life Changing Weekend Workshop of self healing tools and techniques
- Ongoing Support by Phone or Email
- PLUS discounts for other Ekstasis Dance offerings
I want to make it easy for you to experience all the ways Ekstasis Dance can support you to truly embody more bliss and passion in your life.
Its my belief that it is our birthright to live ecstastically, that this is our natural state of being. In my experience opening to ecstatic states is deeply healing, brings wisdom and guidance, and can shift patterns deeply held in the body – even down to the DNA. It also raises our vibration so that we start to attract more of what we desire in our life.
In talking to many women, I also know that there is a deep yearning now to truly embody our divine essence as feminine beings. To be more in touch with our bodies, to soften and open, be receptive and yet still feel connected to our power. It is this new state of Feminine Power that is emerging.
I am passionate about seeing women radiant, blissful and powerful!
This has been my personal journey over the last 5 years, and I feel more passionate than ever to share my personal realizations and awakenings of the gifts that being deeply in touch with our feminine energy can bring.
What it has offered me is feeling more vital and alive in my body, attracting a loving and passionate partner, being able to experience more bliss and ecstasy in any moment, supporting me to align into the fullest expression of my essence in the work I do, learning how to love and nuture myself, and softening into my ability to just BE.
Ahhhhhhhh – isn’t that something want we all want?
In this program you will:
- Be held in a safe sacred space to explore the wisdom and intelligience of your body
- Have more “you” time, time to just be present with yourself
- Learn how to open yourself to allow the flow of ecstatic energy to rejevunate and nourish you
- Release old limiting beliefs, patterns, and emotions that are holding you back
- Experience the freedom of unleashing your personal self expression
- Be on a journey of Awakening to the truth within you
- Celebrate the joy of moving your body
- Empower your own Inner Healer, with tools and techniques you can weave into your daily life
- Find the fun in exercise that is easy and full of celebration
- Embrace your soul’s gifts and find ways to share them with world
- Deeply nourish yourself through opening to the feminine energy within you
- Create a personal practice that is fluid and in touch with you are in each moment
- Enjoy a community of like minded souls to share the journey with
So what does the program look like?
Well I am currently offering three levels of the program so you can participate in it as much or as little as you would like.
Embody Ecstasy Ultimate Package
5 months of unlimited Ekstasis Dance classes (PUR-Ekstasis, Alchemy Dance, Bellyfit™)
5 personal sessions with Luna (bodywork, energywork or dance – 1.5hrs each)
Awakening The Priest/ess Within Series (5 Saturdays – 6hrs each)
Alchemy Dance Weekend (aka Kundalini Dance)
Discounts on other Ekstasis Dance offerings
Unlimited Email Support
Monthly 30 min. Phone Check Ins
Find Peace Package
5 months of unlimited Ekstasis Dance classes
5 personal sessions with Luna (1.5hrs each)
Alchemy Dance Weekend
Unlimited Email Support
Relieve Stress Package
5 months of unlimited Ekstasis Dance classes
2 bodywork/healing sessions
Want to know more about this program, and how it can support you can create a life of bliss and passion, then please contact me for more information – luna@ekstasisdance.com, 780 619 7638
OR
Register Online Here! http://ekstasisdance.com/ecstaticembodiment.htm
Posted by: ekstasisdance on: September 16, 2009
I was reminded this morning, that in the practice of Kundalini Dance we spend a lot of time working with the upflow. The upflow is purifying, and evolutional. It helps us to let go of the past, the old patterns, the stagnant energy.
It is really important however to spend as much time working with the downflow of manifestation and re-creation. As we dance to let go of the old karmic patterns, we must create new patterns to take their place – otherwise we may find the old patterns re-emerging.
This takes time and practice to really anchor in and ground new patterning.
Leyolah, the creator of Kundalini Dance, has offered us a beautiful way to spend time in the space of re-creation and focusing on the downflow of source consciousness from the sun. This is called Morning Prayers, and I can send you a copy if you email me.
In essence, spending time each day – especially in the morning – focusing on the light from the sun or source flowing down and filling, radiating through each chakra. As you do this, call in the new codes, new patterns, new thoughtforms, positive affirmations, or visualizations of what you want to create in your life. Spend time working with the back and front of each chakra – I often touch the chakra with my finger tips to bring my attention there.
For me this is grounding spirit into my body, and I ask that the light of source illuminate each chakra aligning it with divine consciousness.
As I often ask myself and my students in the crown chakra class – how can we live as the divine on each level of our life, grounded in the here and now on earth??
We are the ones to bring heaven to earth, create heaven on earth…. the time is now. It takes this daily practice to trancend the old, and raise our vibration beyond the collective trance that most of society lives in. Re-create your life today!
all my love
Luna Astraea
Posted by: ekstasisdance on: May 18, 2009
My greatest moments of breakthrough in the dance is when I have witnessed myself looping in patterns of movement – and then been curious enough to try something new.
Sometimes the ego keeps us in a comfort zone – a safe place – by find ways to cope. So many times emotions arise or are triggered by life – and maybe we don’t feel safe or its not “appropriate” to express them in the moment. The body/mind stores these feelings – imprinting them in the body. Holding and tension is created to stop these feelings from flowing, resulting in body armouring and chronic tension. We development patterns of movement that move around these areas, holding them in a place of contraction in order to not “feel” them.
To move beyond our comfort zones – and explore news ways of moving – is risking feeling something, allowing these feelings to flow. This is why its wonderful to create safe containers to allow the purification (or movement) of the stagnant or “stuck” emotional energy to flow again… to be felt to be freed. The full bodied expression of the feeling or emotion allows it to find its way home.
The dance of chaos, breaking up patterns, becoming asymetrical, moving beyond our edges and comfort zones, is the greatest way to “empty” ourselves of thoughts and feelings that have become trapped in the body.
I remember this one dance I had – exploring the throat chakra. I was using the dance of flow, circles and spirals, from my hips and using that to open my head and neck. I witnessed myself only spiraling in one direction in my dance – noticing the pattern of safety – and became curious about what would happen if I started to spiral the other way. I tried it out – and all of a sudden a scream and intense pain came from my throat. I grounded and allow the body/mind to feel and allow the stuck emotion to move in whatever way it needed to. It felt very deep and very ancient. Tears flowed, and a feeling of forgiveness eventually emerged from my heart – allowing the loving energy of acceptance to rise from my heart and vibrate through my head and neck. When it was all over there was so much more freedom, relaxation and energy in my throat. All because I made a choice to break a pattern – a pattern I found that was keeping me trapped in the past.
