Elevation Hive

New podcast episode! This is a really super special interview I did with my teachers Sen Sei (Gary Strauss) and Tracy Griffiths where I got to ask them some really great questions and their answers are super worth listening to. I love interviewing wise people and asking them to share advice. So special!

Do you need to balance your Ether Element?

If you feel that you need more space or spaciousness, or you have too much space and need more containment
if you have joint issues or sinus issues
throat issues hearing issues
if you need to work on speaking your truth or expressing yourself
if you feel that you need to be heard or that no one is truly listening
if you need to work on listening more deeply to your own inner voice or needs
if you are ready to call in more inspiration
vision or improve your relationship with your higher self, soul or soul purpose
then this class is for you.

Tonight at 6:30pm join me in the dome for Polarity Somatic Yoga to balance the Ether Element

The five elements exist in all things. They affect how we attune to spirit, hear our purpose, how we think, act, feel, emote, and manifest. By learning how to recognize these living archetypal energies and how to balance them in the body we empower our clients (and anyone we come into contact with, really) to access their potency. We can reset the energy system (and nervous system) to respond to life in new ways. When we receive these sessions we are tending our entire chakra system which affects the functionality of literally everything else in our life. This is Polarity Elements Embodied. And this weekend I have the honor of teaching all five of these powerful bodywork protocols to balance the elements on sacred land that hums with summer. The water laps on the shore beneath us. The air rustles through the forest in a gentle breeze, the sun warms our faces. There is nothing like summer in the PNW to play off the elements in the most delightful immersive way. 🙌🌞🙌

I got new glasses and now I can see! And this is exceptionally good for my

FIRE 🔥 ELEMENT!

My personal fave of all the elements.

Fire rules our ability to focus

And our sense of agency and personal power

It’s creative expression is painting

It’s about embodiment.
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I’m teaching Polarity Somatic yoga tomorrow morning (Wednesday at 9:30am) and this class will be in service of balancing third chakra fire element.

There is AC in the dome so we can afford to get HOT.

Come shake your b***y
Clear your energy and join me in the reclamation of healthy fire= balanced power.

Ps
Im also teaching a three day class on the five elements embodied this weekend fri-sun if you want to learn how to balance your own energy while balancing others energy as well, go check it out!

Yesterday I spent a couple precious hours creating an impeccable playlist for my class on the water element while laying on my yoga matt rolling around in stiff muscles from working so hard lately in so many ways.

At the last minute everyone cancelled but one couple and I taught the class in the same way I would have taught it if there were two hundred.

Before they arrived (a few minutes late), I sat there in my empty dome thinking “no one is coming”. And I made a decision in that moment that I would teach it even if I had no students at all because I knew that it was the class I needed.

But I also knew that it wouldn’t be same without students. Not really. Because there is a magic that happens in community “where two or more are gathered”.

As it turns out, two was all it took.

I got to lead such a deeply nourishing Polarity Somatic Yoga class that once again it changed my life.

We went into the scorpionic depths of the pelvis. We shook it out. We stirred our soup pots and scraped the sticky bits from the bottom and found our hidden flavors and emptied our bellies into the earth dropping ages of old heavy thoughts and debris from our bodies. We severed old attachments through gyrations. We became receptive through spirals and moon salutations. Then we filled ourselves with liquid light in a shavasana so delicious I felt reborn.

And at that moment towards the end of class, as the sun was setting over the water, its last rays reaching through the huge dome windows passing through my happy plants, dappling my cheek bones, I felt such tremendous gratitude that some shell I didn’t know existed melted off my heart into the mat.

I became gratitude.

For this practice. For the two who came. For the ones who tried but couldn’t make it. For the gift of teaching what I need to learn. For the blessing of sacred space to stretch out in and let go in and for the forest and water and long June days of sun streaming realizations where I remember the gift of being one who gets to move.

For the ability to practice showing up. To stretch my voice and my channel as much as my hamstrings and heart strings.

There are only so many sunsets.
There are only so many breaths.
And this being human thing means we accumulate and hesitate and forget that the beauty in our darkest depths can only be felt from the inside out.

We have to work to be here in our cells with true presence. Because numbing out is so easy. Automatic.

But when we endeavor to do the bravest thing we came here to do:

To feel ourselves fully through and through,

we get to heal our way to bliss. And even if it’s fleeting, as bliss usually is, it couldn’t be more worth the effort.

♥️

“Perception means seeing deeper than surface reality- seeing below the skin of things, seeing how a person really is. “

~Hugh Milne
The Heart of Listening Volume 1.

Great points!

There are so many reasons to enter the bodywork profession- these are just a few!

✨Become your own boss. It’s important to know though that those who are self-employed are responsible for all their overhead, booking and scheduling, and client retention.

✨Create a flexible schedule.

✨Opportunities for travel.

✨Have a career in wellness that will keep you active.

✨Help improve the quality of life in others.

✨Demand for massage therapists is expected to grow 26% by 2026.

What was your biggest reason for becoming a massage therapist?

So grateful for an awesome Holographic Reflexology class! Amazing sessions, beautiful humans, profound conversations. I'm so looking forward to our next class, Craniosacral foundations. Right around the corner in June!
Learn more athttps://www.elevationhive.com/classes

Ive been considering bringing my Polarity Somatic Yoga classes to other studios or other public venues for some intro classes or private groups.

Does anyone have ideas of where I might look? Where is yoga offered or needed?

This style of yoga is trauma informed, adaptable, and facilitates connecting with the bodies innate wisdom through guided meditation and free movement. It also incorporates a lot of nervous system support through craniosacral and polarity therapy tools to help with stress, trauma and processing the energy of life.

The classes I am teaching in my studio in the dome out in the forest are a bit different than what I would bring to, say, a corporate retreat or something... but I can certainly tone down when needed. I think ( 😁LOL).

It could also go more in the somatics direction of deep emotional healing. I have a bunch of worksheets I created to facilitate more workshop style healing sessions.

This is kind of my passion. I would love to find a regular place to bring classes of this nature. I also offer one on ones but I prefer the group dynamic.

Im also planning on offering some deep dives this summer when I return from my travels in June. Both longer one day workshops and a six class series. The more this kind of work is practiced and the more intimacy and trust there is in the group, the deeper we can go. SO juicy.

I appreciate any ideas or suggestions!

Best Polarity One class EVERRRRR!!!!
♥️🙌😭 feeling so full I could burst into a million pieces and drift into the stars and shine on.
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Learn Craniosacral Balancing in a retreat-like environment! June 21-23 level one at the Elevation Hive School of Energy Medicine in Olympia, WA.
By combining Polarity and Craniosacral Balancing we are addressing not only the technical aspects of this work, but the energetic foundations that allow you to tune in and trust what you feel.

Craniosacral is a subtle art yet it has been proven to be profoundly effective. Learn how to listen, cultivate right practitionership, master palpation, and learn to trust what you feel.

Craniosacral Balancing One 6/21-6/23 2024 Craniosacral Balancing: Level One Foundations

FREE for the month of May! Polarity Somatic Yoga classes on Monday eves and Wednesday mornings. Yesterday was the first class and it was so unbelievably fulfilling to hold the space for movement medicine. So grateful and so excited for more 💜

Classes for the year 2024:
We are running a full Polarity and Craniosacral program. Come check it out!
https://www.elevationhive.com/professional

This is one of my favorite podcasts so far. I really love weaving music into the interviews to hi light poignant moments. this one in particular was so full of them that it felt more like a sound collage than a conversation.
https://player.captivate.fm/episode/9f95b949-eae0-431d-830f-1cac856e3d83

First episode release in many months! Im so excited to be back with a lineup of amazing interviews already in the can so to speak. This first one has some incredibly inspiring info!

In this episode I share:
✨A five minute somatic exercise/ guided body scan to create the space (Feel free to return to this anytime!)
✨About my recent experience completing my 500 hour RYTT in Bali in a 300 hour Embodied Flow ™ training and break down some of the incredible ways this training explores yoga, somatics, body mind centering and more
✨What Polarity Somatic Yoga is and specifically how it is for all bodies and abilities
✨A super special interview with my Friend Marina who also attended the Embodied Flow training. Marina shares how somatic yoga healed her of kidney problems and how her father healed himself from cancer using very similar techniques!

Listen at: https://player.captivate.fm/episode/f2af0a08-8ad6-4e1a-9d82-bbd362637123

If you've been following my card pulls then you're going to LOVE THIS...

Yesterday I asked the question "What do I need to know about whatever is blocking me from finding this object of power in my dreams?"
This was in reference to the dream "treasure hunt" my dream circle has been playing since last month. Jamie Fenix planted an object of power for the rest of us to find in our dreams. We didn't know anything about what the object was or anything about the dream where she received the object herself.
After a month of trying to no avail, we gathered last night for a potent full moon dream circle and had one of the most epicly fun and productive dream circles in my recent memory.

So full of guidance and good juju!

Last night Jamie Fenix also decided to just told us the story of her dream where she received the object of power she had been sending. Apparently it had come from the great serpent of the Serpent Mound in Ohio. This is a sacred site that exists near the place she grew up. I had never heard of it or seen pictures of it but we decided that this month whoever was planting the object would place it in the center of the egg at the Serpent Mound and the rest of us would try to dream ourselves there and discover what was left.

I offered to be the one to place the sacred gift this time and went home last night and fell asleep before I had the chance to look it up or to journey to it and place a gift inside the center of the egg.

BUT THEN I HAD THE BREAKTHROUGH DREAM!

I woke up this morning feeling ecstatic because last night I dreamt that I was placing this absolutely PERFECT gift in the center of the egg of the Serpent Mound - and then Jamie Fenix showed up in my dream and asked me if I had asked permission and left an offering first. I said I wasn't sure if I had, I couldn't remember. So in the dream I removed my gift and promised to go back and approach respectfully before replacing it. (Which I promise I will do this evening).

There were so many other synchronicities in this dream but I can't reveal them to you or it would spoil the fun but I thought I would take the risk and share this dream publicly because I feel confident that I can respectfully leave the gift in such a way that it is safe to open up the invitation to you.

If you feel like "playing" with us (I say playing because it is playful and light yet I want to be clear that it is equally serious to approach a sacred being/place in this way as my dream instructed) there are a few ways to engage. If you are a seasoned conscious dreamer then you may know but if you are not and want to know more then feel free to reach out to me! All are welcome!

I will be posting instructions in the new Hive dream sharing forum on my website and you can join for free if you want to participate.
Also Jamie Fenix Foster and I are planning to offer a dreamwork foundations course in May and you will learn all about how to do this kind of dreamwork in our live zoom dreaming class. it will just be a one evening class but will hopefully lead to more dream gatherings in the future. I will post more about this later today on the Elevation Hive page.

Super excited to be engaging in the dreaming this way and that it feels time to open the gates between the worlds and invite more dreamers in!

There is literally nothing more fun or profound or exciting than dream play. ✨💫👏

Follow me on my artist page .amanda as I pull one card each day for 40 days from my new dream oracle deck!

Also make sure and stop by the today to view some of these original paintings and check out the dome-as-art-gallery and view my private art studio. 🙌

Follow me on my artist page Amanda Lux, Artist as I pull one card each day for the next 40 days from my new dream oracle deck!

Also make sure and stop by the South Sound Studio Tour at the Elevation Hive to view some of these originals and check out the dome as art gallery and view my private art studio. 🙌

I am opening my art studio to the public this weekend and transforming the dome into a gallery space full of all my art. Come check it out and say hi! You also MUST go see some of the other artists participating in the South Sound Studio Tour this year. I am seriously bummed I can't be in multiple places at once. Also... we are number One on the map "Elevation Hive". 🫶💗👏