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6 Curious Affirmations for Sacred Blood

21/6/2015

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Curiosity killed the Cat and Satisfaction brought the Cat back.
We can be curious of the past and curious about the future, but to be curious of the NOW is where the power of consciousness and love resides.

A girl’s first blood and a woman’s experience of “the change” are 2 aspects of Women’s Transformational Rites of Passage. So too is every single blood cycle in a woman’s life.

As women, each month (or thereabouts) the experience of our blood cycle changes with age, after birth, miscarriage and termination. Our experience also varies according to what we have experienced in the weeks leading up to blood.

A lot of women see their blood as a dreaded curse, unclean and inconvenient, so they deny, hide or stop their blood.
Some women crave sex and remain sexually active while bleeding.
Some women practice sexual self-containment at this time, not from a place of guilt or shame, rather from psychic, Tantric / Taoist perspective.
Very few women know how to practice high magic of healing and manifestation with their blood.


Awareness is growing that during our sacred blood, women release psychic toxicity and emotional charge that has accumulated in their receptive wombs.

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Our blood is our internal cleansing system and we can clear past wounding and trauma in our own bodies and that of our ancestral line.
I have heard of some women that haven’t bleed for years and as they being to work on clearing their ancestral line, their blood starts up again to assist with this.
Our bodies are such incredible things and we all hold the medicine inside us.


While we are cleansing and releasing during our blood, we are also more “sensitive and absorbent” to our environment.
It is a magical time to connect with Divine Sources and heighten our psychic abilities.

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Our blood has incredible ‘attachment energy’, so we get to choose whether to attach to drama, ours or others, or we can attach to supportive, nurturing things like quiet time, being in nature, listening or watching inspirational and heart centred visual and written media.

Ok, so what about when we are in it? Deep in our blood cycle and we are more ‘sensitive’, our emotions are running high or low, our insecurity and doubt runs rampant, we crave for lover’s touch, care and attention and we still ‘have to’ participate in family, work responsibilities and demands.
We can’t stop life just so we can blood flow, right?

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When I am on my sacred blood I am called to be in the NOW.
My current blood cycle is what I call ‘a strong one’.
I feel like a dying cat, wondering if I will come back.
By this I mean I have been in a deep struggle of allowing myself to rest, let go, surrender and trust, verses get on with it, see clients, still write, promote, clean the house, get the job done, just do it.
A few days ago I fell into the emotional pit, crying for no obvious reason. Well, I do know why really. I still expect myself to be “functional” and I overwhelm myself with things that at other times are easy. I forget to trust my blood flow, to bask in the mystery of the unseen and unknown.

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My whisper says, “Just allow my sobs, let thoughts and old memories surface and pass. Be patient, kind with myself as everything unfolds in perfect timing, there is no need to rush or force things.”

I know all these things, yet I still seem to struggle to be with what replenishes me.
I dance with the dark and light of Sacred Blood, as they are both valuable aspects of life. Even while my little mind wants this or that to happen, I acknowledge something greater is happening that I cannot see yet.
I do love the ideal that I am a beautiful and powerful woman able to rest in the void so I may rebirth with grace, majesty and power. Living this is not so easy, or so it seems.

Still, I stand true in my curiosity to discover the secrets of Sacred Blood and how to harness it's power.

These are my 6 curious affirmations and I offer them to you.
1.     I am curious to explore and immerse myself in honouring my sacred, magical blood cycle.

2.     I gift myself the time and space to be alone, or with supportive sisters to let myself fall apart and I gradually implement the changes in my life that I need for this to be so.

3.     My sacred blood is my monthly transformational rite of passage. It is the liminal, crazy, and hallucinatory void, as well as a profoundly magical, dreaming potential for divine manifestation.

4.     I let go of my attachment to needing myself to perform tasks & perceived demands during my sacred blood. Instead I choose to attach to Divine Sources via being in nature, singing, drumming, dancing and self-devotional, cleansing practices.

5.     My Sacred Blood knows what to flush and squeeze out for me to birth anew as a replenished, revitalised woman full to overflowing with Love for all that I am and all that I do.

6.     I live life to fullest potential in the spaces between my sacred blood, so I can rest in & enjoy the fullest potential of the void.

Love Shantell Shakti
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WHY TEACH DANCE?

18/6/2015

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The other day a woman asked me if I teach dance?
I stood there blankly, paused in some slipstream of consciousness.

You see, I had just been speaking with her about a particular dance journey I co-facilitated with a mutual friend. And yes, I have facilitated many dance journeys, yet for some reason this question had me in an alternate time and space.

As a child, up to my mid 30’s, dance had been a chance to check out from a harsh environment and the woes of other people. When I danced I felt free, alive, sensual and in some way powerful. There was a part of me that could go within and disappear. I could  express my emotions through my movements no=one would know. There was also another part of me that could turn on the exhibitionist, the performer.
Yet when I reflect, I was somehow disassociated from myself as well, or perhaps I was unable to truly recognise what was moving through me.

Then I came across this incredible body of work called “Dancing The Divine”. I didn’t need to read much about it, just a few key words stood out to me and spoke to my heart …. Ancient priestess temple dancer

…. The next thing I knew I was on this profound women’s journey and I became consciously connected to my body for the first time, as the flow of “Divinity” (Spirit) danced me.
The performer ego died. Something incredibly wondrous, mysterious and ancient awakened within and emerged from my tiny, thin and curvaceous body; I had come home to myself.

So no, I don’t teach dance.

I DO however offer opportunities for women to come home to themselves to access the Divine Ancient Shamanic Medicine Women, the Dakini (sky dancer) Temple Priestess within. This so that more women can embody and gift the world with healing, transformation, restoring harmony in relating with other women, men, with everyone and everything.

I invite you, dear woman, come and journey with my offering, the Sacred Erotique Dances of the Dakini and restore your ancient feminine wisdom of life and loving power.

NEXT EVENT
Sensual Body Wisdom - dancing woman
22-23 August 2015
Leela Studios, Paddington NSW

Contact Shantell Shakti for more info

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    Hi, these blog articles may stir the pot, inspire your heart, bring you great joy and pleasure, or discomfort and enrage your senses.
    In it all, I invite you to dive into your experiences, stretch your capacity beyond what you think you know, towards the divinity that is flowing through you in every moment.
    Breathe your life awake
    Love
    Shantell Shakti

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