It's Your Time

This morning while enjoying some tea, and the sun shining through the windows of the house where I am house sitting for the weekend the song "Time of my Life" by David Cook came on my music player on the computer.  Have you heard the words of the song?  They are pretty powerful!

The words really spoke to me, they speak about surrendering, letting go of things, dreaming  big, and having the time of my life, and really truly living.

This is the time of my life, it's my time.  As David says in the song, I'm ready to run, arms open wide, keeping my feet on the ground, face to the sun.  I face the sun, breathing and surrendering to love, and living big!  I feel a shift coming in my life, it's a good shift.  I am open to receiving with open arms and surrender to love and gratitude!

I am much more  than just a name, or another face in the group.  I am Aime, I am a divine Goddess! 

To quote another amazing Goddess Sierra Bender:  "I am a 21st century Goddess!  I am feminine.  I am powerful.  I am sensual.  I am sexual.  Don't ever mistake my kindness for weakness.  And don't ever take me for granted!"

Living life from my passion and gift of love for the world, is so much fun!  I love inspiring women to be fully who they are and accept their own wisdom, beauty, grace and power!  We all have that inner spicy Goddess or inner sex kitten in each of us.  It's just when will you let her out to play and embrace your power?! 

Come on Sister, I invite you to take my hand.  It will be a thrilling experience, come and embrace life with me!  I'll be here to support and inspire you!

Find below a version of the David Cook song that I found on you-tube.  I don't own the rights to the music or anything like that, it's just something I found on you-tube that I wanted to share with you all!

Get Radical Woman's Award 2011

I've been a fan of a page on facebook for a little over a year now called Get Radical Women's Conference. I saw the message on their fan page about nominations for the 2011 awards. I decided to nominate myself. Nominations are open to women in Canada as well as the USA. And self nominations are allowed as well. Find below my nomination essay that I just finished writing and submitting to the organization committee.


Yes I work a "9 - 5" job for Metis Calgary Family Services as a Community Animator for Aboriginal Parent Link. However, this is not my true passion in life.

That is why I started the company Awakening Goddess. I have figured out my purpose in life. It is to inspire women to be fully who they are and accept their own wisdom, beauty, grace and power!

I grew up like many girls having many self confidence issues, body issues, and self esteem issues. I was severely bullied by both the boys and girls in my grade school years from grades four to eight. And I am a survivor of an abusive relationship while in University

I as well like many women have dealt with my weight through out my adult life. However it was about 3 years ago when I hit my top clothing size 16/18. I didn't like myself, the way I looked or anything.

I came across the TV show The Biggest Loser and fell in love with the show. I cried along with the participants each week, and could relate to a lot of what they were saying. The trainers on the show were amazing, I love them both, although I am a fellow “Team Jillian” fan.

I decided it was time for me. I’m choosing to eat healthier, and live a more healthier life style. I’m not done my journey but I have so far gone from the size 16/18 to a size 11 (currently while writing this).

While choosing to live healthier, I also took that to look after my mental, emotional, and spiritual bodies as well. I’ve been doing personal growth seminars re learning who I really am, reclaiming my self power and worth. And learning to dream big.

I also stumbled upon an amazing fitness dance class called Burlesquercise. It’s called “sexy fitness” by my dance instructress. Sexify your soul my dance instructress says. To get into my body and move it, learning how to be sensual in my dancing has not been easy. I grew up classically ballet trained for 11 years. So when I first started my dance classes my instructress was showing us what to do, how to move and then touching our own bodies in a sensual way was very hard for me to do.

Now though I love it! Realizing that my purpose is to inspire women to be fully who they are and accept their own wisdom, beauty, grace, and power through sacred body movement brings me such joy! I love seeing the women come to the one on one’s that I do, or mini lessons for a group of girl friends with the uncertainty of what is going to happen, to watch them bloom open to have fun and enjoy moving their bodies.

That’s why I feel I deserve the Radical Woman’s Award for 2011, it’s important I feel for women to be comfortable in their own skin, to fully be who they are and accept their own wisdom, beauty, grace, and power! Thank you for considering me!

Heart's Desires

A while ago this quote came into my e-mail box: "Understand your purpose in life by feeling your heart's desires." ~ Marcia Wieder

This quote really spoke to me. As I sit here this morning in a local coffee shop I look around and wonder how many others in the shop really know what their purpose in life is?

What in life makes their heart sing? What gets them jazzed about life?

What gets you jazzed about life? What makes your heart sing?

Why do you get up in the morning? What keeps you going?

My coach has a wonderful message on her facebook page: "You have the power to transform your own life. Get clear on your purpose - then open your heart and let it come to you."

I love this message too! It was she who helped me figure out my purpose. I open my heart and let go of the "how" things will happen. I will create magic! I am a powerful creator. Yes I have to take steps to create the magic, and so do you!

I know I've written about this before, but I'll keep doing it! I love inspiring other women, I love watching them step into their power. Through many outlets, but one for sure is through sacred body movement. It is something I could do I love it, it's a job I could do for free. It's my passion/purpose to inspire women to be fully who they are and accept their own wisdom, beauty, grace and power.

Another thing I've done to step into my own power, is that I've booked my photo shoot with Impressive Photography. I will be doing a boudoir photo shoot with them, as well as a shoot that's more on the professional side of things. I've never done a boudoir photo shoot before.

Growing up with lots of body self image issues I had a huge struggle with seeing myself as beautiful. As well as lots of self confidence issues, it was a struggle growing up sometimes. I thought of myself especially in high school as the "fat sister". My younger sister I thought at that time was prettier because she was smaller than I was.

But now, I've come to accept my body the way it is, and love it as it is now. Yes I am still on a journey to live healthier and eat healthier, but it will always be there. I've journeyed from being a size 16/18 to now a size 11! I am proud of what I've done.

I give thanks to my teachers along my journey. Di from Burlesquercise for it is you who helped me bring out my inner sex kitten! And learn the body movements that I now use to inspire my own clients. The entire Sr. Staff team at WarriorSage for helping me figure out who I am, develop my personal power, and shine my true heart.

Doing the work on myself, taking time for me has been important. I wish for you to take time for yourself, and see what your heart really desires to do.

Blessings!

I lovingly present to you!

Okay! Crazy wonderful week! I had my first student earlier in the week. And was on cloud nine...but I have even more wonderful news to share with you all!

The next day I launched my web site for Awakening Goddess, and ordered my very first business cards! I'm super excited! I've gotten some wonderful feed back already from some friends.

I invite you to www.awakeninggoddess.com

Thank you everyone for your love and support! If you feel moved, I invite your comments on the guest book and to spread the message of Awakening Goddess!

It's my dream to inspire all women to be fully who they are and accept their own wisdom, beauty, grace, and power!

It's Official!!

Wow!!! Wow!!! Wow!!! Thank you Universe for making me wealthy! I am proud to announce that Awakening Goddess officially had it's first solo client/student!

I am on cloud nine! I met a beautiful Goddess for an hour. We opened with a heart connection dyad we each asked each other three questions "Tell me a thought in your mind? Tell me a feeling in your body? and Tell me a feeling in your heart?" Then I asked her why was I there? What did she want to get out of the session.

We did some stretching, and then body isolation movements. We took our time and she did amazing. Then we moved into some zoning. Again, we played with the zones and took our time. I showed her one of the performances that I had done at the Sun and Salsa festival back in July "Take Control". She thought it was really great.

To close the evening we did the same dyad, the three questions, her responses were very different to what she had said earlier at the start of the evening.

We only did one hour of a session. We are going to meet again next week! I am super excited!

It's inspiring for me to see the change in even one hour with the Goddess I was working with. I love to inspire others! Hence my purpose of Awakening Goddess! To inspire women to be fully who they are and accept their own wisdom, beauty, grace and power!

It's what I do that I love! I saw a quote that my parents sent me from Hawaii, it is "let what you do, be what you love!" And I love dancing and inspiring others! It brings me such joy! Even I go so far to say outrageous joy! It is my purpose/gift of love/passion for the world! And I'm not going to stop!

Find below three pictures, two of me from the May Burlesque Gala, and one of me and my amazing teacher the sexy Di Lefebvre! Who I owe so much too! So much love and gratitude to you Miss Di!

I am booking my photo shoot very soon, within the next couple of weeks I hope!

Growth

Wow!!!! What a week I've had!!! So much great things have been appearing in my life! I am over come with emotion of gratitude, love, and passion! So much growth is happening in all areas of my life, and I'm riding the roller coaster of life, and not letting go!

On Monday I found out that I was to start my new job. I was training Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Today (Friday) I was back at the day care one last time. I miss the kids, but this will be a great step in my growth in the working realm of my life.

I loving my new job, it's going to be so great to be supporting families going through a struggle.

I'm also feeling lots of gratitude for the opportunity to be dancing this coming Sunday at the Sun and Salsa Festival here in my home town. I'll be dancing two numbers with fellow members of the Sizzle Girls. One dance has just five of us, and the other has 13 of us. It's been on my vision board to perform with the Sizzle Girls, yes, but the next step was to perform at a festival. And that's going to be happening! And I can't wait!

With Awakening Goddess, I've had positive responses from women who've I spoken with. I am so grateful and proud all at the same time to let you all know that I've been invited to speak/inspire/dance at an event here in my home town for women only. It's called "Heart Open to the Max" Ladies night on Aug. 5. To be in a room full of women, inspiring them to live their life to be fully who they are and accept their own wisdom, beauty, grace, and power will be an amazing experience for me.

I am excited for this opportunity. There are so many people to thank along this journey. My dance teacher Di especially for teaching me everything I know about Burlesque dancing. My spiritual teachers Suzanne, Satyen, and the entire Sr. Staff team of WarriorSage for teaching me about living my passion, and how to figure out what my passion is. My parents who wish for me to be happy. Well you know what Mum and Dad? I AM happy. I am truly happy when I'm living my passion. To be dancing and inspiring other women to dance in this ride called life.

Where are you growing in your life? Where are you stuck and need a push? To grow is to have courage to step out of your comfort zone and live the way you want to live!

Find below a beautiful mini movie that I found on you-tube. It's all about growth and living! Very powerful!

Flurry of Feathers!

Wow!!!! What a night!!!! The Brazilian Burlesque Gala was a huge hit! Myself and the other women who were there dancing strutted our stuff, and feathers were sure flying!

Myself and the other Sizzle Girls did an amazing job. It was fun peforming for others, inspiring women that it doesn't matter what you look like or how young/old you are you can still get up and peform infront of others.

We also did boudoir photo's as a group and then individually. I can't wait to see how they turned out. Lots of us were taking pictures that night. It was fun to pose for the camera with the lights and the sets.

However in the mean time, I created a mini video picture slide show of the night, of pictures that myself and a couple other Sizzle Girls took. The music you hear is what we danced too on Friday night.

Watch out for more from the Calgary Sizzle Girls! We're peforming at the Lilac Festival and the Sun and Salsa Festival here in Calgary.

Life by what we give

"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give." - Winston Churchill.

I just saw this quote and it made me stop and think. Yes it's true, we make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Count on the simple things in life, for example I don't really need the big screen TV (when I see it in the stores), just a simple one will do. I've thought that I can be just as happy living in a tent with a sleeping bag in the middle of the forest, as living in a fancy house.

I am more happy when I can give love to others and volunteer/serve the community of Calgary, and others around me in the world. That is what this blog is about. It's about giving back. Now, this is not to say that I don't love my life right now, because right now, my life is going pretty good, but there's always room for more. Because I am worth more. I deserve it!

I love being of service to others. If I can be of service to the WarriorSage community and give my love of service to others, then I am living a great life. I've said that if I could make a living by volunteering/being of service then life would be amazing!

This blog of inspiring other women to live with and accept their own wisdom, beauty, and grace is part on how I am giving back. To have my life full and abundant by inspiring other women has me feeling that I am living a great life!

When the time comes that I will be offering a service of gifting the world with breakout workshops for women it will be so much fun. To gift the world with dance to be fully who they are and accept their own wisdom, beauty, and grace.

I'll be doing something that I love being profitable with it, and giving back and living a great life!

Facebook Fan Page!

Good afternoon world....as I sit here glued to my telivision watching the Olympic Gold Medal game for Men's Hockey, I am proud to be Canadian! I am also proud to be going after my dreams, and goals. I can picture myself on a hill with the wind blowing my skirt, the sun shining on my face. My arms are open up wide to accept all the gifts that the Universe has given to me. And as well that I've created! For I am a powerful creator!

I must say thank you to my coach who's been helping me with this vision, a couple of months ago she asked me to picture myself in 10 years time. And that is what I pictured. Me standing on a hill with my face to the sun.

I've created a fan page on facebook for Wisdom, Beauty, Grace, and Laughter. I encourage and invite women from around the world to join the page. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Wisdom-Beauty-Grace-and-Laughter/366105770637?ref=ts

On the fan page is where you can discuss things such as who inspires you, or what keeps you laughing. As well as you can post pictures of women you find inspiring.

Inspiring Women!

Welcome all! This blog theme is all about inspiration. To inspire women around the world to acknowledge their own wisdom, beauty, and grace. We as women need to take a moment and celebrate our own wisdom, beauty, and grace.

As for myself, I continue to work on these topics as well, I wanted to share my journey with the world to follow.

I am inspired by many things around me. I am inspired by the young people that I work with. The children of the day care continue to surprise me. Sometimes I just sit in awe watching the children play and be so imaginative! The things they create and come up with. There was one day that a child was playing in the "house keeping" area, he said to me that he's my chef and he would cook me a meal. I had to stifel my laughter, because he was wearing big blue goggles that are actualy apart of the construction play set and a little vest that is from the dress up area that the kids use for being a chef. He was so proud of his "work" that he didn't care what he looked like.

This reminds me that when I am doing something that I am passionate about, it doesn't matter how I look. As long as I put my heart and soul into that which I am doing, life is all good. I could be so emotional in what I am doing, but it shows my passion, determination and drive for what I believe is good.

So what are you passionate about? What do you do that you don't care how you look?