Dance With Me: A Guided Movement Experience

Join Chelsea for a 30 minute guided somatic meditation practice. Through gentle prompts and space for free movement, you’ll explore a form of moving meditation that can release tension, awaken vitality and bring you into deeper presence with yourself. No dance experience is needed, just a willingness to listen to your body and move in whatever way feels true for you.
For best results, practice with headphones in a space where you won’t be disturbed, have space to move freely - whether indoors or outdoors.

Transcript

So I just want to invite you to land, Wherever you came from, The outside world with phones and cars, Just leaving that all outside in the most simplistic, Organic way. Okay, Let's just begin with our breath, Dear ones, Simple, Relaxed breathing, Soft, Soft bellies, Allowing gentleness to take over, Taking your time. How does this body need to stretch, To open, To curl, To fold, To bring our consciousness into the body with the breath? And if there's any sighs or sounds that are wanting to come, To just gently be a part of this engine of consciousness starting up in your body, Include that, Please. It can be soft, Subtle, But just gently awakening all of us, Our vibration. Okay. Ah, Yeah. So gentle. Feeling any parts of us that maybe feel like they're holding on to any tension or they're gripping, Even in the subtlest way, Can we start to tune into with refinement, With listening, With care, With where are these parts gripping and can we soften with our breath? Ah, Inviting the breath to just come in and open and soften and melt any parts of us that are frozen, Tight, Wanting to run, Can we just welcome it all in with deep belly breaths? Ah, Softening, Softening, Softening, Melting, Yeah. Yeah, What's this body needing today? It's probably different than yesterday or last week. So just paying attention, Yeah, With care. Yeah, Maybe it feels good to put some hands on your face or your body with so much tenderness and love, Touching ourselves in the way that we really need to be touched, We desire to be touched, Offering ourselves that kind of care. Yeah, Maybe you need to tap, Tap on parts of you or just gently rub a part of you, Offering some, Oh yeah, I'm right here, I'm right here, We can move like that, Yeah. Let's expand to hold the fullness of our humanity together. Yeah, It feels good to open the body and stretch and take up space, I encourage that, We spend so much time contorting and reconfiguring ourselves for everyone else, Time's just for us, Let's start to open our lives, Petal by petal. What does waking up and turning on your natural GPS feel like? Do you need a really silly face perhaps, Some gentle rocks or shakes? The heartbeat of the earth breathing life into you on this floor, The heartbeat of your soul beginning to gently awaken, Ah, Maybe inviting in some deeper breaths, Maybe inviting in some movement and if you're feeling it, Maybe you start to just take a gentle mosey in the space, Presencing yourself all the way here. If you feel like you want to make eye contact with some other fellow humans on this crazy wild ride, Please do, Maybe you give a wave with your smile, Maybe you give a real wave, Maybe your wave is a silly face, Yeah, Maybe you stick out your tongue, Maybe you shake your booty, Yeah. What does hello feel like from your soul today? Invite that in, Let it be organic, Don't even have to think about it, Yeah, What does hello look like, Feel like? Hello to the day, Hello to your angels, Hello to your ancestors, Hello to your body, Hello to each other, Hello to the room, Hello, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, All of us is welcome here, Let's create the space of acceptance, Yes, Even that part, That part we haven't known how to be with yet, Yeah, That part too, Yeah, There's wisdom there too, So let's not leave it out, Yeah, That's right, Flowing into presence, Ah yes, Gentle, Gentle, There's such a nice beat underneath the current of this ocean, Like we're stepping into a little bit of wet, Dense sand, Feeling your feet held, The weight of your body held on this earth, Spreading out your toes, Feeling the balls of your feet, Your heels, Playing with your weight, Yeah, The roots going all the way down, High entry, Maybe there's a way to lean or to bounce that feels really good, Feeling the fullness of your body right here on this earth, Maybe a bounce in the knees, And if you feel like today, This morning, You would be really supportive to have another human with you, Feel free to make some eye contact, Make a silly face, We're all human in this crazy wild adventure, Yeah, Yeah, We're creatures, Remember how multifaceted, Multilingual you are, Let's put it into the body, How do you share who you are, What's alive for you, Yes, Put it, Give it to the body, Let the body talk, Yes, If no words were available, How would you let this beautiful human know exactly where you were at today, Through the face, Include the face, You're so expressive, Yes, What's true, Give it to the body, The full body, Yes, Feel each other, Yes, A sacred conversation, Yeah, Including the fingers, The nose hairs, The butt, The toes, That is, Yes, Unwinding, Rippling, Opening together, Yes, Finding that sweet balance of never pushing, Never forcing, Just listening and allowing, What a practice, Yes, Moving with what is, That's right, Open, Open, Open, Breathing down and through any tension, That's right, We hold so much in our hips, Letting it just expand with our breath, Good, Maybe you feel like you want to change up the energy, Take a walk, Move, Move, That's right, Let your feet take you on a journey, Take you to a different part of the room, Explore, Yes, Discover what's over here, What does this perspective hold for me, Yes, Interesting, A little merengue, Maybe a little salsa, Yes, You don't need to know how to dance salsa to dance salsa, Yeah, It's an energy, Yes, Feel those hips, Feel that rib cage, Open, Open, Open, Open, Yes, Those shoulders, Yes, Little cha-cha, Little play, Allowing pleasure, Welcoming in pleasure into the body, Yes, Today, What kind of permission can you offer yourself, Opening up, Shaking it out, When in doubt, Shake it out, Another delicious heartbeat, Let's catch the wave, Yeah, Put it somewhere, Put the beat somewhere, Where does it want to go, Your elbows, Your knees, Your head, Your heart, Yeah, All of you is welcome here, So let's invite in the whole 360 experience, The whole body, The whole field, Yes, Your armpits, The back of your kneecaps, Yes, In between your toes, Your eyebrows, The very top of your head, Can you presence all of it, With your breath, With your movement, Or maybe you just want to hang out with one part, Just stay there, It has something to teach you, Yes, That one part, Yes, Let your arms just take over and lead, Explore and play, There's so much information wanting to come through you, To be expressed through you, Let's let go of needing to understand, And instead just allowing, Yes, Your soul pouring through your pores, When in doubt, Shake it out like an etch-a-sketch, Come right back to the center and begin again, Yes, Feel your feet on the earth, Invite the breath to show you what needs to move, And sometimes when we've warmed up a little bit, The voice wants to get activated, So I encourage you, If there's a sigh you want to make, An opening you want to make, Let some sound out, Let go of the weak, Put it down, Put it down, Put it down, That's right, Give it to the earth, Yes, Creating space, Becoming space, Try on the craziest faces, The craziest movement, Get weird, Get funky, Yeah, Let's break up the monotony, A bank teller in all of us, Let's actually feel, Let's be creatures, Remember, Yes, You are the jungle, You are the mountain slopes, You are the vines crawling up the sides of buildings and trees, You are the antelope, You are the salamander, You are the octopus, Begin again, Yes, Yes, Good, Play, Play, Play, Yes, You are not one of these things, You are all of these things, Constantly rotating, Shifting, Becoming, So what wants to pour through you in this moment, What wishes to be created from the infinite creator being that you are right now, It's just for right now, Just play, Yeah, What will you discover, New neural pathways, New ways of creating, Feeling, Being, Communicating, Yes, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, All right, So for this wave, My loves, Let's shake out any last pieces that need to be shaken out before we bring it on down, So get your goodies, Call yourself back home, Let's bring it in, That's right, All of you is welcome here, Yes, What else needs to be touched, Yes, Bring it in, Bring it in, Is it your funkiness, Is it your swag, Is it your essence, What needs to be ignited, Bring it alive through the breath, Through the body, Let's go, Your flavor, Just right now, Because you're all the flavors, So right now, What is it, That's right, Give it to the body, Show us, Let us feel you by the way that you're feeling you, Bring it in, Go get yourself, Yes, Let's create space, Let your body go into noodles before we calm it down, Let it just open, Full body activation, Occupy your skin, Fill your field, Coming up right here with you, Yes, Allowing your limbs, Your center, Water, Water,