Hi,
My name is Dieke and welcome to the Femme Embodiment Quest.
Today is day number 11 and the word is alive.
That means we're working with the theme of aliveness.
Now our aliveness is really connected to our creative essence,
Our creative energy or life force energy,
Or we even call it our sexual energy.
And it's also really linked to the feminine because the feminine is all about life itself.
And when we look at the word alive,
It's about life.
Now our aliveness roots in our hips.
So when we're looking at the body,
This is where our aliveness,
Our sexual energy,
Our creative energy comes from.
This energy that gives us a spark.
And it's also really connected to our spontaneity.
Now when we're looking at what stops our aliveness,
It often comes from us repressing and shaming and blaming this part of our body.
And specifically when we're looking at emotions,
Which are energy emotion,
Which also gives life,
Specifically the emotion of anger,
When unrepressed,
When stuffed away,
When ignored,
It basically stores and clogs in the hips.
And our anger is basically on the other side of our creativity,
Our aliveness.
So if we cannot express our anger,
We cannot necessarily feel very alive either or feel very sexual or creative.
They're basically going hand in hand.
And so specifically in today's embodiment practice,
I want to look at this topic of anger for a moment.
And we're going to play with basically activating and expressing and finding a healthy way to connect to our anger so that we can release some of that stored tense stress,
Like repression in the hips.
And naturally we can snap into our spontaneity,
Into our creativity,
Into that feeling of like,
Whoa,
I'm alive.
Now specifically anger serves a really important purpose because basically what it does,
It protects our aliveness.
It protects our spontaneity.
And so basically it creates this sort of like,
Hey,
No,
Until here and not further.
And so basically today we're going to also be working with like,
No,
This is my bubble.
This is my creative,
Alive space.
This is what I want to protect with my no,
With my anger.
And in that way you can hopefully come out of this practice,
Also seeing your anger as something really important,
Really powerful and really necessary in your life.
If you find a healthy way to connect with it.
Okay.
For now,
Just sitting down as I am as well,
In a cross-legged seated position.
One bell marks the start,
Three bells marks the end.
And let's tune in with that topic,
That theme of aliveness.
Beautiful.
And from here,
We're going to actually place the soles of the feet together.
Like a butterfly.
You can give your feet a little squeeze and grab your toes.
And I just want you to just sort of like flap your legs up and down a bit.
So we're opening in the hips.
So our aliveness,
Our spontaneity,
Our creativity,
It's all rooted in the hips,
In the pelvis.
And so let's open that up.
And so the same goes for anger.
That is the protector of that aliveness inside.
It gets stored if unspressed,
Unexpressed in the hips.
So it's really amazing to sort of open your hips,
Stretch your hips.
And at the same time,
I want you to pay attention to what's happening in your jaw,
Because that's another part of the body where we tend to store anger or frustration.
So while you're flapping your legs and stretching here,
You can move a little forwards or backwards,
Just exploring a different way of like,
How am I able to really stretch my hips?
I want you to,
At the same time,
Relax your jaw.
Maybe take a deep breath here.
Beautiful.
And then from here,
Stretching your legs out in front,
Giving a little shake and shimmy.
And then we're going to do another hip stretch,
Crossing your legs,
Rolling forwards,
And then placing one foot forward.
So we're coming into this so-called dragon pose.
So it's a really big hip opener.
You can place your hands on the inside of that right foot.
And you can play around here,
Exploring your own hips,
But you want to open that right hip and also left hip flexor.
And again,
Relaxing your jaw.
And I want you to tune in for a moment with that image of an actual dragon that spits this fire that is really clear about its no.
And I want you to see if you can sort of like,
Like growl a little bit,
As if you're spitting fire yourself,
Connecting to that no,
To that anger,
To that animal inside,
That protector inside.
This can feel really new or a little weird or uncomfortable.
That's totally all right.
Or maybe it feels really normal.
That's amazing too.
The breath in and on that exhale,
Letting that dragon out.
And one more time.
And then switching legs.
The other leg comes forward.
Stretching,
Opening up the other hip.
And sometimes it can actually be that this pose brings up irritation or frustration.
So if that is the case,
Amazing.
Let that arise and arrive.
Using that exhale and that growl to let it out to be expressed.
So in general,
Animals are a really beautiful example of how they connect to their sense of no.
They just growl or walk away.
Only we humans,
We create a bunch of stories of what's appropriate and not.
We get ourselves stuck and therefore basically kill our aliveness.
Okay,
So from here,
Kind of come up to sort of standing,
Taking your time to do that.
Maybe stretching your hips in any other way.
Gently finding a way to come up to standing.
Maybe rolling yourself up.
Rolling your shoulders back and down a few times.
And really taking in a powerful stance for a moment.
And we're going to say no three times.
So really embodying,
Embracing your no.
And connecting to that power,
That power that really comes from the base of your body.
Taking a deep breath in and then you say no.
No.
Another deep breath in.
And another deep breath in.
No.
You can even imagine or move your arms as if you're creating this beautiful bubble around.
This is your space for your aliveness,
For you.
Another really great example of aliveness,
But also of how we are naturally actually connected to our anger until we're not and conditioned not to,
Is kids.
Because they just throw a tantrum when they're not happy with something.
And so that's actually what we're going to do next.
We're going to throw a little kid's tantrum of sort of like no,
No,
No,
No,
No.
Not being happy with something.
And really activating that through using your body.
So let me give a little demo.
And then we're going to do that all together.
And then we're going to just be in stillness for a moment to see what happens,
To feel that fuel,
That fire within that comes from really embracing and embodying and unlocking your no and the anger that's stored with that and comes with that.
You need a very short amount of time to feel that aliveness being activated in your body.
What's important here before we're going to try is just allow yourself to use breath,
Movement,
Sound.
Use your body.
Tap into that angry kid as if you really want to make candy and it got taken away.
So let's give it a try.
Only about 30 seconds here.
So let's see how much aliveness we can activate by embracing that no.
And let's go.
No,
No,
No,
No,
No,
No,
No,
No.
No,
No,
No,
No.
Feeling that aliveness in your body.
And letting your hips,
Your body sway a little.
Feeling that energy move and circulate through your entire body.
Let it transform into this creativity,
This spark,
This yumminess,
This juiciness inside.
Maybe even caressing or touching yourself,
Whether you're standing,
Lying down or sitting.
Breathing.
And then from here,
Placing your hands in front of your chest,
Thanking yourself.
That's the official end of this embodiment practice.
Enjoy this alive day.
Thank you.
