This week brings the ancient fire festival of Beltane. Traditionally it was celebrated with dance and wild ceremony as the summer truly arrived. Even today there are Beltane festivals around the UK and Ireland.

Our loved ones can feel challenged when we’re in the midst of personal change.

Easter holiday season – time to spend time with family and friends. While that’s hopefully a joyous occasion, let’s face it – it can also feel quite difficult. 

Especially when you’re in the midst of radical personal change.

Sometimes it’s the collapse of a relationship. Or an unexpected diagnosis. Sometimes it’s a money crisis – perhaps a job loss. Whatever triggers it, suddenly you’re on a journey to an unknown destination. And there doesn’t seem to be a map, much less sat nav.

I mean soul naked, unmasked. No you don’t have to take any clothes off!

It’s time to look at all aspects of whatever might be holding you back from being fully empowered YOU!

This time of year supports us to spring clean our lives, releasing things, habits and behaviours that no longer serve you. It’s time to look at all aspects of whatever might be holding you back from being fully empowered YOU!

As the light grows, there’s a call to return to the world after winter’s long dark days. How do you feel about showing up in the world?

Our sensual nature is the key to coming back into a full-bodied life

The snowdrops have blossomed, and here come the daffodils. I don’t know about you, but as the days lengthen and the light grows, I feel a surge of joy.

Gabrielle Roth, creator of 5 Rhythms dance, would ask ‘Do you have the discipline to be a free spirit?’. I come back to that question time and time again.

When something fundamental changes in our life – a new relationship, new home, different job – it calls us out on anything that’s unhealed in our lives. Thresholds like these mean we need to make a commitment to a new direction, a different life. They are times of upheaval and change and, if we’re listening to our soul whispers, they are golden opportunities for soul growth.

The outcast is an archetype so many of us recognise. So how do we feel when we truly belong?

We women are so often taught to mold ourselves into acceptability. To be pleasing to the eye, not too loud, not too challenging. Not too big. Not too small.

And at the end of this journey, we lose ourselves. We ‘unbelong’ to our own sacred nature.

Here’s a secret that not many know. To truly shine your authentic light in this world, you have to befriend the dark.

I have just danced with an old friend.

She is called Anger.

You see, these last few weeks, I have been sitting on myself. Compressing myself into a ‘likeable’ space. I’ve not been expressing my full truth because I felt afraid of being rejected. And my truth included healthy, honest anger.

When you look back over the last year, what dream seeds and visions did you plant? What gifts are pushing now, to be given air, light and space to grow?

Let me ask, how many of us feel like outcasts?  Feeling a pervasive sense of ‘not belonging’.  Feeling that you are missing your tribe, seeking, searching, and longing?

In times of change it can feel like we are moving along corridors blacker than the darkest nights. Places and spaces where night blindness takes us to the depths of our primal fears. The colours so muted as the dank cloak heavily descends harbouring our ability to breathe. All movement is painful, constricted. 

How many times do you find yourself stuck for words? Feeling in awe of another? Surrendering to their ‘greater’ knowledge?

We all benefit from ‘teachers/mentors/guides/leaders/therapists/coaches’. We all learn from others. Each person, flower, dog can be our teacher if we permit. Yet, discernment and care is needed, lest we simply hand over responsibility for our lives to another.

Think you ‘can’t dance’?

Worried about what people will think of you?

That’s creative fuel! Use that ‘negative’ thought and give it shape. Invite the anxiety,

shame, and fear into the dance. And then ask those feelings what they are saying.

‘Hello my old friend. What do you want? How would you like to move?’

Here in the UK, winter is setting in. It’s a time for withdrawing, and turning inward. And I’ve been reflecting on how I can listen more deeply to my own wise inner voice.

Meet Magic…its not what you might think….