Sensual Movement Magic: Somatic Awareness & Sensual Body Storymapping with Netsenet | Practice Map
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Sensual Movement Magic: Somatic Awareness & Sensual Body Storymapping
A Movement Discovery Lab with Netsenet | Practice Map
COLLABORATIVE-TIME | Creators circle + Sanctuary Circle
Thursday 11 August 2022 | 9PM ET
In this week’s lab, we’ll be using sensation play to cultivate somatic awareness and develop our movement vocabulary for sensual body storymapping. Inspired by my sacred dance rituals, Sensual Body Storymapping is the practice of studying the subtle body energies to activate your sensuality and express your bodies stories through sacred movement.
In last week’s lab, we studied our movements to explore what makes us feel safe in our bodies + how our physical space impacts us to feel safe or restricted in our movement. We expanded upon those movements by using them as a starting point to bridge into other movements and explore new ways of sensual expression that felt far-reaching beforehand. I felt so inspired by the beauty and magic shared between us in the discovery lab. We had juicy dialogue about sensual submission, craving slow, serpentesque movement, the sacredness of twerking and the spiritual activations that arise from connecting with the spine.
I was reminded that: Our bodies house the stories that are yearning to be shared, or as Binah says: Our stories are our wealth! Close your eyes. Take a deep breath. Slowly, begin tracing the outline of your body with one hand. Listen deeply to what comes up in your heart + mind. What story does your body want to tell? Spell it out in your movements.
Preparing for sensual movement magic:
If you’re unfamiliar with the subtle bodies, you can learn more here. I also invite you to sit with these questions:
How do you engage with your sensual energy in your daily life movements?
What do you feel inside the bones of your body when you are indulging in softness, pleasure and slow movement?
What story does your body want to tell about the patterns that define your sensual expression?
this Movement lab includes these elements:
Workshop in development/experimental practice
Idea mapping/dreamscaping/visualizing
Movement practice
Story sharing circle/dialogue circle
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 Movement Discovery LABs
Movement Discovery 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
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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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