Chakradance™
A POWERFUL MOVEMENT THERAPY PRACTICE FOR HEALING
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Chakradance™ is a movement therapy modality. Each chakra is explored through specific music, guided imagery and your own free, improvised dance, done in a candle-lit space with your eyes softly closed. This begins to activate inner experiences.
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It’s almost like entering into a waking dream. You may see images in your mind’s eye while you are dancing or gain insights. You may also experience feelings, emotions or physical sensations. You may receive messages from deities, animal spirits, and angels. ​You will be invited to dance your unique expression of your experience.
Don't let the word dance intimidate you. There is no right or wrong way to move your body. It’s a journey of self-discovery and unique to each person; for some it may be micro-movements and for others larger expressions. This is a very safe place to explore and move however feels right for you. ​​
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Chakradance was developed by Natalie Southgate twenty-five years ago. She has taught over 100,000 women and men all over the world, including at Deepak Chopra's Chopra Center.
I am blessed and grateful to be a certified facilitator of Chakradance to guide you through a healing and powerful journey uniting your mind, body, and spirit.
Rhythm for your Soul
In Chakradance classes and courses, each of these seven chakras has its own unique body of wonderfully danceable music, resonating to its own specific vibrational frequencies.
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On one level, Chakradance can be experienced as a joyful affirmation of who you truly are. Using spontaneous dance, creativity and your imagination, it leads to an awakening, a discovery of your true self.​
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But at a deeper level, Chakradance is also about healing and balance. By surrendering to the music of each chakra, we dance from the inside out and find ourselves awakening and healing ancient hurts; expressing – often for the first time – long-blocked emotions; and opening ourselves up to levels of spiritual connection higher than we ever thought possible.
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This is what we mean when we describe Chakradance™ as “rhythm for your soul”.
Feel more balanced and joyful
Most classes conclude with participants creating a personal mandala artwork, to help ‘anchor’ their experience and for their own personal use in reflecting on the class in the following days.
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Chakradance puts you in touch with the sacred within yourself. It helps you re-connect with your own soul, unique and beautiful. Dancing the seven chakras is like dancing into seven different worlds, seven different facets of your whole self, each with their own lessons, meanings and stories. As a practice, it helps you to feel more balanced, more joyful, and to radiate your own true colors out into the world.
Why I practice and facilitate Chakradance
I was living my dream. I was happily married, had two awesome daughters, and I absolutely LOVED being a mother. I had breast cancer but no matter, I survived it with loving support, and It led me to a beautiful fulfilling career founding a breast cancer non-profit to help other women. I had roots in my hometown, family and friends I adored. What more could a woman ask for!
And then unexpectedly my life started to unravel bit by bit. My marriage hit a rocky patch, our children moved out of the house off to college and a life of their own. My job that I used to burst out of bed with enthusiasm to go to work became a painful duty of managing people instead of helping people. I was lost and drowning.
Fearful of losing my most prized possessions - my marriage, my relationship with my children, my passion for work and my sanity my husband and I decided to move to a new state. Sunny California where dreams come true.
Little did I know that an emotional tsunami was waiting for me in California. Lost in my own turmoil, my energy depleted. My once energizing positive contagious aura became infected with resentment, victimization, even hatred. My low energy spewed into every area of my life impacting every relationship.
For the first time in my life, I had lost my zest for life. Not even cancer robbed me of my positive nature. But this storm paralyzed me, so much so it scared me. I thought I was losing my will to live.
And then the universe jumped in! I had planned a 4-day hike to the Grand Canyon. My dear friend had to cancel last minute however her close friend, Kristin, was able to fill in. She happened to be a healer. On our 8-hour hike into the canyon I shared my pathetic, self-pitying woes with her. Her advice was to forget all the storms around me and focus on loving myself. She shared a meditation to create your own dream space while in meditation. I immediately went to the top of the majestic Havasupai Falls waterfall, sat in meditation with the mist upon me and found myself dancing in a flowing blue dress in a sacred immaculate white marble room. It was pure bliss.
I went home and tried as best I could to love myself as Kristin suggested, even though I was still riddled with self-hatred . I fought the hardest fight I’ve ever fought to break free from anxiety and deep depression. Every morning, I forced myself to read spiritual books, meditated, practiced yoga, and walked along the ocean. I grudgingly fed my soul day by day slowly igniting my passion for life again.
And then I found Chakradance. It was as if everything I had been doing and reading for the past 2 years prepared me for this beautiful practice. I was excited to dance and have someone guiding me through meditation meeting my spirit guides and receiving gifts and messages from angels! Little did I know it would heal my soul. It brought me peace again. It elevated my energy back to my normal joyous heights! I found my passion for life again.
I don’t think my experiences are unique. Life is hard. And everyone experiences tragedies and storms that bring us to our knees, humble us, and change us forever. I am grateful that the biggest falls can lead us to the highest peaks, and soul purpose, and our greatest connection to others and the universe.
I am blessed to joyfully dance out my emotions to find insights, uplifts, and healing and I look forward to guiding others on a Chakradance experience to bring healing and hopefully Pure Bliss!
With love, passion, and purpose,
Holly Rose