Begin with Selene - Spiritual Mentorship

Where in your life are you withholding yourself? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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When we withhold we are holding back our fullest expressions of our inner beauty, heart, and love, that untimely create deep connection. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Why not, if just for today, be playful, instead of playing safe. What can you do today to free your heart, that is always aching for more?⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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# woman

The screams, cries, sorrows, joy, and laughter, all swallowed for the fear we will be shut down. Shut down to what? OUR LOVE not being received. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Our Feminine Essence in balance is to be fully present with our ever changing nature, from moment to moment, never withholding our love. To be an artist of love in full expression. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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All emotions are beauty in expression - What taught us otherwise?⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I promise, there is nothing to figure out. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I have wasted so much time in my past trying to not feel the way I was feeling. Always giving myself a hard time trying to figure out how to rise above what felt like a mess. Intellectualizing why I felt the way I did and how I was going to do better tomorrow. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Which lead me to feel like I was a complete failure! I would feel crippled in how I felt like I had so much potential yet so trapped in confusion of why I couldn't just BLOOM!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Even writing this I can feel the exhaustion of my endless need to be anywhere else than where I was in those moments. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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What I learned is that the longer I tried to push those feelings away, the louder they became and took up more space in my life. Further holding me back from that potential I knew I was capable of. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Often times we are carrying and suppress our feelings because we as women haven't been given permission to be in our fullest expressions. in the end our hearts become closed and we often begin to feel not seen, or heard.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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It becomes an intimate practice to begin to honour and love your sadness, anger, grief, frustrations, especially when it has led you to believe you are a failure. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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With love, touch the space within you that feels uncomfortable, without a need to figure it out. Just breath it, let that feeling take up space in your body fully. Let it move you and express through your body and show you its truth. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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If you completely surrender to feeling what you don't want to feel, rather than fight and struggle against it, it transmutes into empowered actions that allow you to BLOOM!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Just BLOOM darling⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

The art of holding space for ourselves and others isn’t spoken about or taught enough…⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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This is one of the foundations of Scared Embodiment! There are so many benefits to learning how to hold space. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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As you learn and fine tune your ability of perception and are able to hold deep space, you become the anchor of the room for someone’s nervous system to orient to. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Holding Space says, in a non verbal way, I see you, I feel you, you are safe. It also provides you with a neutrality, to not get enmeshed with others processes and experiences. Which puts you in a state of exhaustion or even physical tension at the end of your day. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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This means you do not try to fix or change anything that arises, rather become a neutral witness to what is present now, to allow change to unfold. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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So maybe you don’t need protection, perhaps you need the sacred tool of embodiment that allows you to own the super power of Holding Space 💗⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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&wild

All spiritual practices are transformational until they are used to bypass discomfort in your body. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Your body is your sacred vessel that is your trustful guide. We are so conditioned to run away from our body and what we feel. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Your greatest wisdom is right here, right now in your body. Everything you need to know is literally showing up as freedom or tension within your body. Let your body be your guide ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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# healers # soul

We have to stop running away from what we feel physically and emotionally. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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We can get so trapped in our minds and our stories unknowingly creating an avoidance to what needs to be felt FULLY.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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If you are stuck with something holding you back on your healing journey, it is a good sign you are avoiding feeling something fully. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Women far too often are scared of their own emotions. We need to begin to love ourselves and all women in all our expressions. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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So it's time to practice... ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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You can begin to feel the emotions under the struggles or thoughts you carry. Bring awareness to where this emotion lives in your body. This will bring you deeper into your body and will further amplify what needs to heal. So be still, open up to listening, breath the emotion to amplify it, then just feel, and with unwavering presence, witness and trust your process. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Much love⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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# selfexpression

Let me introduce myself…⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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My name is Selene and I am a teacher of Sacred Embodiement. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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What got me here and what is Sacred Embodiment you may wonder? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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15 years of gathering medicines and immersing myself in the practice and studies of Buddhism, Yoga, Biodynamic Craniosacral therapy, Shamanism, and Embodied Feminine work got me here. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Through these years of immersing myself into the healing arts there was a theme or a gap, of either being all about the physical body or all about spirituality and consciousness. This is where I feel called to bring it all together. Which has all led me to what I now call Sacred Embodiment.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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The foundations of Sacred Embodiment are the intimate teachings and practices of holding space, perception, listening and becoming the observer to what unfolds. Coming out of doing and truly becoming. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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The teachings and practices of Sacred Embodiment help develop skills that create a tangible union of body, mind and Spirit, so you may amplify your experiences in your life and in your therapy rooms. You become a resilient human/practitioner when you become intimately embodied with all you are and in turn can hold space for others in a deeper way. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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So welcome to the start of my new sacred project of teaching all things Sacred Embodiment.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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It feels like forever that I have been waiting for my life work to unfold into something bigger than me. And it came to me last week in two words, Sacred Embodiment. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Then flashes of my future began to flood in, like a thousand doors opening and me flying through them. It felt like a future of inspiration, passion and community and it was in this moment that I knew this was a direction I needed to step into. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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The lesson I had to learn is that I could not push the river. I had to become one with the river, embody it, drink it and become it. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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So welcome to the creation of my life’s work, inspirations, teachings, practices and all things embodiment & healing 💗

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With my palms together in front of my radiant heart, I bow in honor of my dear Mother! In gratitude, I bow for all your divine guidance, for all the times you held me, and for always nurturing me and continuously setting me free 💗 I love you mom

Sheila Viel