Happy Dance Workshops

01/03/2023

Sometimes the only way out is going through, embracing it fully

"Grandma, I'm tired. So tired of this life..."

"Take your tiredness, my child, and wrap it around yourself. Like a blanket in the cold winter months. Tiredness comes to make you a nest, to bring you to wear comfortable clothes, to make you sink into its warm embrace. I invite you to stay within yourself. Without strength, without thoughts, without actions. Like the snow that covers everything to soften the world, to make it muffled, to protect it from noise. Accept the flakes of your tiredness and let yourself be completely covered by them."

"I could die buried under there..."

"You will be reborn instead. Like the seed in the ground. Do not resist your weariness, do not reject it with a thousand actions, a thousand intentions, a thousand feelings of guilt. It just wants to take you by the hand and lead you to sink into the void. Right there, where the source of every inner strength lies. They taught us to be strong by resisting. But it is in surrendering that the true heroes emerge."

"I'm afraid, grandmother. What if fatigue will annihilate me?"

"My child, you are not afraid of tiredness but of losing control of yourself. The time has come for you to give yourself to life. And to generate together with it the most wonderful children: the fruits of your soul!"

Author: Elena Bernabè

Picture by Martin Harvey

03/11/2022

♥️♥️♥️

You’re allowed to leave any story you don’t find yourself in. You’re allowed to leave any story you don’t love yourself in.

You’re allowed to leave a city that has dimmed your light instead of making you shine brighter, you’re allowed to pack all your bags and start over somewhere else and you’re allowed to redefine the meaning of your life.
You’re allowed to quit the job you hate even if the world tells you not to and you’re allowed to search for something that makes you look forward to tomorrow and to the rest of your life.

You’re allowed to leave someone you love if they’re treating you poorly, you’re allowed to put yourself first if you’re settling and you’re allowed to walk away when you’ve tried over and over again but nothing has changed.

You’re allowed to let toxic friends go, you’re allowed to surround yourself with love, and people who encourage and nurture you. You’re allowed to pick the kind of energy you need in your life.

You’re allowed to forgive yourself for your biggest and smallest mistakes and you’re allowed to be kind to yourself, you’re allowed to look in the mirror and actually like the person you see.

You’re allowed to set yourself free from your own expectations.

We sometimes look at leaving as a bad thing or associate it with giving up or quitting, but sometimes leaving is the best thing you can do for yourself.
Leaving allows you to change directions, to start over, to rediscover yourself and the world. Leaving sometimes saves you from staying stuck in the wrong place with the wrong people.

Leaving opens a new door for change, growth, opportunities and redemption.

You always have the choice to leave until you find where you belong and what makes you happy.

You’re even allowed to leave the old you behind and reinvent yourself.

Author: Rania Naim

02/06/2022

Loved this ♥️

"You do not heal 'from' trauma.
You simply come to know yourself
as Life Itself.
And you turn towards the wounded place.
And you flush it with attention,
which is Love.

And maybe the wound will always be with you.
Maybe you will always walk with the hurt.
But now, you hold it. It doesn't hold you.
You are the container, not the contained.
It doesn't control you any longer, the wound.
Because it is drenched in awareness now.
Drenched in You.
Loved by You.
Even celebrated by You.

You do not heal 'from' trauma.
You find healing 'in' the trauma.
You find yourself at trauma's sacred core.
The One who is always present.
The One who can bear
even the most intense feeling states.
And survive.

The Indestructible One.
The Infinite One.
The Powerful One.
You." Author: Jeff Foster (www.lifewithoutacentre.com)

15/06/2021

*𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝟔-𝟗 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐤𝐢𝐝𝐬* 𝟏 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐠𝐚 & 𝐟𝐮𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐦𝐮𝐦𝐬❗💖

My dear friend and Kid's yoga teacher, Naoko Hashimoto, will be offering kid's yoga in this Summer camp organised in Begnins.

Kids are going to have looooots of fun while practicing yoga, and being in lovely good hands, in a nice atmosphere! You can enroll your kid in https://raisondhetre.ch/

10/05/2021

❤️

Don’t forget love,
That you are free.
Free to dream.
Free to create.
Free to choose.
Free to walk your own path.
Free to let go of the cultural conditioning that keeps you limited.

When you forget this, ask yourself:
Where did you compromise your truth?
Your values?
When did you fall out of alignment with your inner knowing?

You are a free bird...
Sing your own tune.
Dance your wild dance.
Let your soul fly.

xo alice

📸: .portraits

06/04/2021

(𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻) 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.

Feeling heard. Touched. Cared. Loved. Genuinely seen and accepted.

A real hug, felt with all the cells of the body, from the inside. That fills your heart, and heals sadness, fear or despair.

Because of how we are wired to experience social pain and pleasure, meaningful human connection is a necessity, not a luxury. Specially in Today’s isolated world.

Connection is Fuel. Life force. Opportunity. Growth.

I feel infinite gratitude that, after 1 year and 3 months, I have been able to BE with, and genuine hug, part of my main family members this weekend, no screens in between. Yeaaaaah!! 😁

Nothing in life can replace that warm feeling you feel inside your body with real and genuine human connection. So many zoom and whatsapp video calls during these times. They do help a lot, especially when living abroad, but after all, we all need that real and genuine human connection. Where you can see, sense, feel, breath, smell, touch… the other. Or be in nature. Sensing it, breathing it, touching it. Technology should be enhancing our connection to others and nature, not replacing it.

We are in this world temporarily. We are given live, we die, we grow. How we use our time it’s an individual choice, in a way that speaks to our hearts.

I truly wish we are all able to stay connected (within) with the value and importance of (genuine human) connection in this world of today where isolation around the Globe is growing drastically. Studies across all mammals show that our well-being depends on our connections with others. According to UCLA professor Matthew Lieberman, “Being socially connected is our brain’s lifelong passion.”.

What pops up in your mind when you read “Connection”? :)

Stay well my dears 🌸

Photo by Artem Beliaikin on Unsplash

27/03/2021

Safe and welcomed as you are ❤️

22/03/2021

❤️

Just like the rare pearl that is formed through irritation and reaction, so are the struggles in your life serving you to help you grow your gift. When you realize this simple truth it becomes easier to shift your focus on the gift that is being formed rather than the struggle. 🙏

A few years ago I went through a heavy dark night of the soul. I struggled to keep my head above water and I felt utterly alone in the world. It was through this struggle that one of my greatest gifts was formed: the gift of connecting deeply to Spirit and aligning myself to Source power.

Looking back, I see the wisdom of every moment of despair as it taught me how to strengthen my will and anchor into the light which serves my life's work now.

Beautiful loves, it is time to realize your soul is growing in beauty and power and is here to shine and be shared with the world. Breathe out through your heart and allow peace to wash over and through you. ❤️

All my love always,
Mei-lan

12/03/2021

04/03/2021

Love it! I can only confirm what I have experienced while volunteering in hospitals: the "Dance Power" or any sort of art power in emotional healing for kids (and adults) during hospital stay. Being in an hospital doesn't need to be boring, and emotions also count!!

Dancin Power's first student refused to dance. Morg'Ann was a teenager with a chronic illness who had been in the hospital for three months. "She looked at me and said, 'I'm not going to dance; I'm in a wheelchair,' " remembers Dancin Power founder Vania Deonizio. But Deonizio is not one to give up....