New Name!

One night I was doing some sacred body movement here in my home, when an image came to me. It had to do with this little blog site, and the fan page. I saw a woman standing in a lotus, with her face to the sun just glowing. Also the word awakening kept popping up.

So with out further adu I would like to announce that Wisdom, Beauty, Grace, and Laughter is now called "Awakening Goddess". The same theme, purpose is all there. To inspire women to be fully who they are and accept their own wisdom, beauty, and grace.

Awakening is because to be fully who we are, it is to be awakened. To live as our true selves to be truly happy we have to live our life! And I must say each day I am doing this bit by bit. Living my life. Being the true me. Letting my Awakening Goddess out to play! And I want to inspire many many other women!

Open Heart

A little over a year ago, I spoke my truth to one of the girls who I dance with. I don't actually dance with her, she's in a level above me in this moment, but when I was speaking my truth to her I was in level 2 and she was in 4. I was helping my dance teacher with her level 1 class when she came into help as well. My teacher, myself (in level 2) and her in level 4 were demonstrating a walking drill. I took a breath and said to her that I aspire to be in level 4 with her, and I see her as a mentor to me. As well as if she ever has any guidance, tips, corrections to offer that I openly accept them.

Dancing is one of my passions, I love to dance and openly take guidance from my teacher and this other. So today when myself and the other Sizzle Girls (level 3) were having an extra practice my mentor came in for her own rehearsal/practice. She was watching us dance, and at one point called me over to her. She gave me some corrections and had me show her.

I thanked her lots and she said that if she sees me doing it again she was going to come over and smack me! I lovingly and openly said okay.

It's one thing to have an open heart when things are going smoothly, but it's completely another when one is given correction(s). Send love anyway, and keep an open heart, no matter the situation.

Rest in the quiet....

For the next few days, I'm house sitting for friends of mine. I am going to enjoy my time at their place. One thing that will be interesting for me is that there is no television. I like to watch certain shows during the week. And I'm not going to be able to.

I'll be able to just BE. To rest in the quiet of my heart and read, or write. I do have my computer, so I'm not completely shut off from the media. It's interesting, a song is playing on my I-Pod called Be Here Now by Shimshai. It has some really neat words in the song. As I started writing this blog tonight, the song came on. It talks about just being in the moment. Doing what you want to do, in each moment. Just loving in each moment.

To be able to rest in the quiet of my thoughts, the quiet of my heart is a resting place. To really land and be here present with my thoughts is a powerful place to be. I can create all the magic I wish to.

How often do you sit in the quiet of your heart and just let yourself BE? I invite you to give it a try....take 30min on the weekend and just BE.....let yourself rest and relax in the quiet of your heart. Your true resting place.

Find below a video from You-Tube of the song Be Here Now. Listen to the words! The quality is not the greatest, but you can hear the song and get the feeling of it all. I do not own this video.

Dance like no one is watching!

Tonight I had the opportunity to attend a Goddess Dance night. It is a free form dance hour. Women come together and just move their bodies, and dance. There's no talking to each other for the hour of movement. It was so much fun just to move and not care what I looked like. It was great to move and feel the music in my body, in my soul.

It's an hour of movement, a great workout, and so much fun.

This is also the group that I have been given the YES to come and teach them a half hour of an Intro to Burlesque. I am super excited to be doing this. To inspire the other women in a form of sensual dance is going to be so much fun! This will be taking place in a couple of weeks.

This is what Wisdom, Beauty, Grace, and Laughter is about. The business part of it is me going out to organizations, companies, groups and doing mini workshops on Intro to Burlesque dancing. So women can feel sexy, confident and beautiful in their bodies.

Small steps

The other day at my work I was with a student who has some behaviour challenges and learning difficulties. He sat with me and did a craft, that was multi step sequence craft. He had to colour, cut out squares, and then match numbers to glue them on in the right order.

With help, he sat through the entire project and completed it! I was so proud of him, and he was as well. We went to my director's office to show it off. She was proud of him as well. We rewarded him with a treat. As we were leaving the office, my director yelled down the hall at me "Celebrate the small steps!" I agreed yes.

I had to stop more and think about that statement.....how often do we women, stop and celebrate the small steps?? I know I forget to do this. Some women have "big picture" all in their head and forget the small steps. I know of an amazing author named SARK, she talked about having micro mini steps. For example if someone were to clean their closet, the micro mini step could be to just take out the shoes out of the closet. Then celebrate it!

I've been choosing to eat healthier, I have had my days that are more challenging than others. But when I've eaten healthier I forget to do something to celebrate it. It can be something as simple as just dancing for a song on my I-Pod, or having a sensual bubble bath....

Also that goes along with this, is that if someone has a set back, they need to not beat themselves up about it. This is another thing that I have to make conscious choices to not do. To not beat myself up when I've had a challenging day.

So remember to celebrate the small steps! And don't beat yourself up when you've had a challenging day!

It's happening!

During my last session with my life coach, I was encouraged to start really putting myself out there with my passion/purpose/gift to the world. I wrote to a fellow Goddess about coming to the Social Goddess Dance that takes place in Calgary, and teaching a 30min free mini lesson in Burlesque.

So I wrote to her the other day and got a response. Yes was her response!!!! We are now trying to figure out the day that will work for both of us. I am super excited!! I can't wait to inspire this group of women!

I have some work to do now, I am choosing to put together a 30min lesson!

I have also been talking with a fellow Sister Goddess who is an artist, who may be able to assist me in creating a logo for my gift to the world.

So I am super excited, and remembering to breathe and living with love and passion! Need to stay grounded and centered too!

beauty under everything

This morning, I met a fellow Goddess at a local mall for some shopping fun. She told me she was wanting to buy me something to make me feel sexy and beautiful. I was game so I said sure. I had a couple of ideas on what she was going to buy me...so I remained open to the experience and let her buy me what she wanted too.

I was surrendering to my Sister and the feminine flow. She led me to the lingerie section of the store. She looked at me and said that she was going to buy me a new pair of under garments. She explained to me that to feel sexy in clothes one must start with the correct supportive under garments. Well....all I got to say is I feel great in these new under garments! It's a one piece that holds me in, in all the right areas, lifts where it needs too, and looks amazing!

I put on a shirt that my Sister brought me for and it was amazing to see the difference. I looked amazing! And I felt amazing too. I felt sexy!

While shopping in other stores with my Sister, I saw an old student who I used to work with, and his Mum. I ran out of the store that I was in and said hello to them. This mother was amazed at how I looked, it made me feel great to hear her.

I then bought myself a new dress. I haven't bought a new dress in about a year. This dress makes me feel sexy and beautiful as well. Then to have the new under garments under it, I am feeling confident and sexy as well. It was like having a personal shopper. My Sister, kept telling me what to try on and would also help me make sure my under garments were fitting right with the dresses I would try on.

Do you know a Goddess who could use some support and guidance in the world of clothes? I know I am as not as knowledgeable in that area. I encourage you to go out and take a Sister on a shopping adventure! I know I had an amazing time today.

Don't Settle for Less!

I am a 33 single Goddess!! I know there are many other single Goddess out there in the world. I've been single for a few years now. I was in a relationship with a good man, but we drifted apart.

When I was first telling others about not being in a romantic relationship with this man, I had another man who I trust and who is much older than me tell me "don't settle for less than what I know I deserve."

I've remembered that message from him. A year or so later, I created a list of qualities that I want in a man. With pictures from magazines of doing different activities.

Very recently I went on a date with a guy, there was some interest that I had, but as we were talking I found out that there's something that on my list that he doesn't meet.

I feel very empowered to stick to my guns, and keep to what I know I deserve. I'm not going to settle for less than what I know I deserve. Because I was given some flack about this "one thing" that he doesn't meet. I think knowing both who I am and what I want in a romantic relationship is important.

Where do you lessen your bar? Where do you think you need to raise it up? Because we are all worth it!

Self Love

Okay Goddesses....let's get real....how often do yo tell yourself that you love you? How often do you say to yourself "I love you!" I know for myself I don't do it enough! I maybe tell myself "I love you" once a week, if that.

I was in the bath tonight having a wonderful soak when I had a piece of music going while having my soak. The words of the music was "Opening my eyes, I realize, I love you."

Those words really hit me. I was saying them to myself. I let the emotions flow through me. Saying to myself that I love me, is a tricky one.

I'm not the first woman in the world who's delt with body issues. Why do we as women do that to ourselves? We should learn to love our big hips, round breasts, and amazing asses!

I know one way that has helped me is dancing again. Dancing with the ladies from the Sizzle Girls and Calgary Burlresquercise, has helped me a lot. In the first lesson about a year and a half ago, my teacher (at that point, who I thought was crazy) said to us to just move our chest. It was a weird feeling! So to keep feeling great about myself, I'm going to keep dancing and shaking body parts that shake.

All the world needs is love, and we need it too! We can't forget ourselves! We need love too!

I heard from one of my teachers that if we want to change the world, we first have to change ourselves!

How often do you listen?

Our bodies are amazing units of energy on this planet. How often do you really take time and listen to it? Do you listen to it, when it's full of energy and you feel great like you could go on for ever? But then, how often do you listen to your body when it's not feeling 100%? When your body is feeling run down with low energy and a cold?

Right now, I'm feeling run down, have a sinus head cold, feeling tired and low energy. It's interesting because 50% of the time I'll ignore my body when it's getting sick and just keep pushing myself through the day. I've done that many times, I've ended up in the hospital because of it too. Had emergency surgery to remove a 13 inch in diameter cyst on my ovary.

And then the other 50% of the time, I'll stop and listen to my body and rest, sleep, and be gentle with my body. I am remembering to practice this art of listening to my body. To rest when it needs rest. There is so much that I do in a week sometimes that on a weekend I don't move from my comfy chair, and I stay in my p.j.'s all weekend.

Most women on the planet, give so much to others. That they forget to give to themselves. This also means giving yourself rest, and taking care of your own body. When was the last time you took a full day to yourself and rested in your p.j.'s all day? If you have a family I encourage you to tell your partner to take the kids away for the day/over night and you listen to your body and rest and take care of it. Maybe it's having a bubble bath with candle light in the evening, then the next day spending it in bed with a good book and tea!

That's also pleasure as well, taking time and indulging in pleasure. Or as my mentor says "Vitamin P". It would be fun to have a day full of just pleasure for the feminine!

What will you do the next time your body is telling you it's run down?