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If we exclude your birthday, when was the last time you celebrated you?
When was the last time you threw a party, or bought a gift, for a non-birthday related milestone?
I’ve just wrapped a huge month of celebrations for myself. August is my birth month, so a birthday party is always on the cards (in this case a long lunch with friends).
This month I felt a new identity emerging, a new inner season that I also wanted to commemorate with celebration.
Most of us celebrate the ‘big’ milestones – birthdays, marriages, anniversaries. Perhaps even we ceremonialize first bleed, matriescence or divorses. But generally speaking, the personal milestones such as:
- Starting a business or charging career
- Increasing your income
- Clarifying a new identity
- Shifting an inner season
Are treated as invisible markers as busy life passes by.
From an embodiment perspective, celebration is an important way to catch up with ourselves. To shift our self-perception and solidify the foundation of who we’ve been becoming.
Here are some pics from my recent Sensual Embodied Dance self-celebration retreat!
Ceremony is a way to cement new identities.
When we celebrate ourselves (or better yet, allow others to celebrate us) we are SEEN in ways that shake our cells into the NOW. Shedding skins to further become who we truly are.
Yet celebrating yourself can feel a little self-centered.
I often have feelings of guilt or ‘showing off’ that shadow my deep, human yearning to be SEEN.
So in today’s podcast we’re exploring:
- The under-used art of self celebration
- Why self-celebration is an important part of an embodiment practice
- What I’ve been celebrating
- 4 of my favorite ways to celebrate
- What to do with the ‘show off’ feelings when they arise
- What aspect of you wants to be seen & celebrated?
Self-celebration is a very necessary requirement for adults.
I wish we would all do it MORE.
Let me know what you’re celebrating by dropping me a line on Instagram here →
Resources
- Sensual Embodied Dance Faciliator Training →
- Sensual Embodied Dance Retreat →
- EcoIntimate Lingerie →
- Excellence In Coaching Event →
- Primal Feminine Flow – An at-home, feminine embodiment movement practice to resensitize the body
- Feminine Embodiment Coaching – an emotional embodiment & vulnerability-based professional training for coaches
- School of Embodied Arts
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