Sensual Movement Magic: Exploring Safety & Sensual Activation with Netsenet | Practice Map
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Sensual Movement Magic: Exploring Safety & Sensual Activation
A Movement Lab with Netsenet | Practice Map
COLLABORATIVE-TIME | Thursday 4 August 2022 | 9PM ET
This is a sensual self-study discovery lab— a space for creators to explore their sensuality and activate their sensual magic through movement and sacred adornment.
This is an opportunity to commune with yourself, your body, your desires and discover the parts of YOU that desire to be seen and felt. I invite you to leave behind any fears, insecurities and judgments about yourself. Allow yourself to be immersed in experiencing the magic and beauty of YOU!
Sensual Movement Magic was inspired by my desire to deepen into my sacred dance rituals and explore my interest in burlesque dance movement. Recently, I had experienced a few moments of rejection that led me to feel sad, frustrated and doubtful about my future as a burlesque performer. I was denied access to several burlesque dance programs due to a lack of funds. I was frustrated that my passionate desire and dedication wasn't enough for me to have a space in the room. I was pissed off and felt like my light was dimmed. Then, I was reminded of an ancestral download I’d received: Money doesn’t matter my existence! My perspective immediately shifted and I remembered that I can create space for myself. I can be my own teacher. I can study myself. I can create my own movements. And, I can do it in the Garden where I feel safe, loved, witnessed and fully supported.
Now, I realize that the rejection I experienced was actually an illusion and I was being redirected to trust in my own magic as the sacred medicine I need to pursue my creative dreams. I am choosing to study myself, my movement, my sensual expression, my magic. I welcome you all to witness me, to experience my magic and to create magic with me!
Preparing for sensual movement magic:
If you wish to learn more about the practice of sensual movement and the benefits, feel free to watch this video. I also invite you to sit with these questions:
What makes you feel safe in your body?
What parts of your body do you admire the most?
What kinds of sensations/movements does your body crave?
this Movement lab includes these elements:
Workshop in development/experimental practice
Idea mapping/dreamscaping/visualizing
Movement practice
about the practice
meet the creator
Netsenet Ghiday
Netsenet is a dancer, doula, blood rites priestess, and thriving sexual abuse survivor exploring ways to deepen in her healing journey by using creative expression and sisterhood as tools of transmutation magic for continued transformation. She is developing her self sovereignty by curating sacred spaces to heal out loud, in community with other Creators in the Garden, and with her platform, Sacred Womb Works. You can also follow Netsenet on Instagram @fairywombgoddess.
ABOUT OUR Movement LAB
Movement Labs are where we experiment with the embodied knowing of our majesties as creators. In these spaces we gather and dance together, celebrating the sacredness of our unique movements, sharing dances with each other, learning new patterns of motion in our bodies and in the space, and
ATTENDING Movement LAB
Movement Labs are collaborative-time, virtual gatherings. To honor and protect the intimacy of our sharing, Movement Labs are not recorded. We are a Come As You Are congregation and you are welcome to attend as much or as little of the lab as you like. Please visit the Fertility Abundance Garden Welcome Center to join the Garden and begin attending Soils Labs. Most Movement Labs are open to creators in the Garden. Join the mailing list to receive notifications about Movement Labs that are open to the public.
ABOUT SOFT-TIME
The Garden thrives in soft-time expansions. While the Fertile Awakenings Story Lab has a weekly collaborative-time component, we consciously create multiple points of engagement for all creators to participate in the majesty of our explorations and experiments, whether or not you attend the lab. In addition to the practice maps, our Fertile Awakenings Story Labs are archived in multiple places inside the Creators Portal and the Creators Shared Diary. We also extend conversations and discovery opportunities in the Creators Channel and Fertile Majesties groups. Mattering soft-time practice spaces is a vital way that we disrupt mandates of capitalism, and continue to decentralize fixed-time and cumpulsory-time standards as universally legitimate and relevant. In making space for the diversity of our life rhythms and labors, we take great care to develop generative, nourishing methodologies that honor the fluid nature of our lives as creators. Learn more about how we activate more possibilities with time in Mother Mother’s story-essay, Time Is All We Have.
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