week 6
HOMEWORK: Take your inner Beloved on a sensual creative date. You can make this elaborate and imagine what your dream date would be, and do that for yourself; your inner artist/Beloved. Buy yourself roses/flowers, dress up or down ;) get yourself a decadent treat like chocolate, wine, whatever truly delights your taste buds. Put on some sensual/favourite music and move your body, especially awakening your hips and dance with yourself. Lightly slowly touch your skin to awaken your sense of touch. Hold/touch your face like you would a Beloved. Get something that smells delicious like an essential oil or smoosh your face into a fresh blossoming rose and breathe in her essence before you toss her velvet petals all over the floor for your bare feet to dance upon. Awaken all of your senses and allow your sensual energy to rise up and create through that - allowing your inner artist to express in whatever way she/he needs to. Hold yourself with compassion and love if/when emotions arise and allow them to express through your art and through your body’s movement (shake it out! dance it out!) - give yourself permission to create an ugly mess and use your creative expression to process and/or simply PLAY! The goal is not to create a pretty piece of art. The goal is to allow complete freedom of expression for the joy of it and to allow any unexpressed pieces to express and heal and be freed and return to wholeness. Do this by candlelight (or with your eyes closed) if you wish, so you can truly focus on your senses and what you are feeling in your body and the experience, not on what the art looks like.
Our sensual/sexual/creative energy is one and the same; make love to your canvas with your hands and heart and gaze of your eyes. Build up the energy the hours/days before with creative foreplay - sensually touch your canvas/materials anticipating your intimate time together. Start setting up the space with candles/flowers - how would you create a romantic sensual space for you and your partner - do that for you, for your inner artist - your inner Beloved.
You can use the Dr. Joe meditations (very similar to awakening your sensual/kundalini energy) with the tightening of the pelvic floor muscles and imagining a ball of light rising from the base of your spine and expressing that from your heart through your arms into your hands, into your art. Build it up, and take that sensual energy and pour it into your art.
***If you find deep triggers and painful emotions that are stuck and need a little extra TLC to move through, remember you have a free session with Whitney who’s work is to gently clear those deep emotional triggers from the body - the memory remains, but the painful emotions attached to the memory are processed and healed. (no pressure at all, just a option). Here are Whitney’s details:
(604) 377-6784
Painting From Your Essence - week 2 (which will be on the website Tuesday night at 8pm PST), is a sacred sensuality painting experience that is a perfect guide for our homework if you wish to use that. Here are all the details: https://www.paintingfromyouressence.com/welcome-to-pfye
Sending you so much love <3
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Reminder…
TAKE EXTRA GOOD CARE OF YOURSELF: We are doing some deep soul work here and the energetic shifts that the soul makes; the body can sometimes need a little TLC and time while catching up, be gentle with yourself. As we shed old beliefs and old conditioning sometimes things come up to be released. Allow yourself time to rest, meditate, move, be in nature to connect and ground, sing, dance, play, create! Drink lots of water. Nourish yourself with patience and tender loving self care. Hug yourself, speak words of encouragement and affirmation to yourself ~ YOU GOT THIS!