Dance Your Business Into Being
Dance Your Work Into Being
A dance practice to inspire your work, biz, or project into being
INTRODUCTION
This is a dance practice to inspire your work/biz/project into being or to support you with work that you are already creating. It is inspired by my own inspired dance practice and also by my clients becoming embodied versions of the work that they do.
It is a short fun session designed to be done alone in a 60 min slot. You could do one dance a day. You could do it all in one go. You could split it up over 1 week or just do 2 sessions in one day — one in the morning and one in the evening. You can re-visit the dance whenever you like. You can play your favourite parts. You can use the songs/crystals and words which most resonate whenever you wish or as a part of your business development strategy / personal practice.
It seems to be mainly aimed at women but this does not mean you cannot do it if you are not one. It might be helpful when you feel excited, or overwhelmed or full of ideas, or full of structure.
It will help you get into your body, come out of your head and really feel and experience the process that many of us go through in expressing our authentic expression in the world.
I have included some words to accompany each song so that you can read them alongside your dance before you dance to each track or you can read them all upfront in one go.
Each track also has a quote which I love and find inspiring as well as a crystal which embodies the essence of the emotion of this dance. If you don’t have such a crystal you can simply use the image and have it up on the screen while you dance. The crystal will help you to become even more aligned and focused with this aspect of your being as the dance unfolds.
Let me know how you get along.
“Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?” Charles Bukowski
TRACK 1
🎵 I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free — Nina Simone
Crystal: Sunstone
Start by shaking out the parts of your body. Arms, hands, wrists, feet, ankles, legs, hips, head and shoulders, bum. Shake every part as you start this part of the moment. It is time to be free.
Be free to express who you are and what you do without fear is the first step to this dance. If you have been hiding a long time for fear that what you have to say is too out there, too challenging, or too small or too big — this song reminds you to be exactly who and what you are. Feel in your body exactly how it feels to be free as you dance along to this song.
TRACK 2
Crystal: Amethyst
“You are a multi-faceted diamond like being, unique in every way, connected through the weaves of your soul”
Just dance to this however which way you want to. Remember that we are multi-dimensional beings. Not just 2D. We have good, bad, light, dark, happiness, sadness, energy, rest — all of it mixed up together to create the multi-faceted beatificous that makes up you. You are equal with and as shining as everyone else. We all have a right to be here, to shine our soul light and move to the rhythm of our heart. So just get out there and dance to this, loosening your grip on comparison, expectation — who and how and why you want to be.
TRACK 3
Crystal: Celestite
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” — Albert Einstein
Go with the flow. Let your body remember your dreams. If you were going to allow yourself to live your dreams, what would that feel like? Be like? Dance that now. The dream that we had before we came to earth this time. The nub of knowing that you feel in your soul when something touches it and feels just right. Dance to this song while filling your breath up with the remembrances of your soul.
TRACK 4
🎵 Be Yourself — Perquois
Crystal: Carnelian(add image of carnelian here)
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Remember it is okay to be you. There is no-one else quite like you. While we are all totally unique and different, there is a sway of rainbow coloured-ness. Please remember you are all one. It is okay, you are beautiful whatever your mind thinks.
TRACK 5
🎵 True Colours
Crystal: Aqua Aura(add image of aqua aura here)
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” — J. Krishnamurti
Just a really great song to dance to. Remember, the world is crazy, not you. We are the only species on earth who has to pay to eat, to live, and for energy. If this doesn’t get you — add to it having to get up at the same time every day to travel to a building that might just be sick and sit there not moving and staring at a screen as the basis for what they call work, which we have to do to pay for all these things. It is society that is sick, not you. Dance out to that.
TRACK 6
🎵 Girls Just Wanna Have Fun — Cyndi Lauper
Crystal: Jade(add image of jade here)
“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive” — Elbert Hubbard
In the 1990s when I was doing my video production business, I made a promotional video for the 6th form college of Queens College, a private girl’s day school in Harley Street. The girls chose this song as their background. All these 18-year-old girls intent on having fun, being themselves. They had goals and dreams and ambitions and they wanted to be teachers and lawyers and change the world. And they also wanted to have fun! Let’s not forget that. Life is meant to be enjoyed. To be danced. To be laughed. To have fun. Find whatever it is that brings you that essence of teenage spirit fun-ness and do it. Now. Love you xxxx
TRACK 7
Crystal: Clear Quartz
“You have the vision of all those who have passed. Dream with this wisdom of the ages. And light shall shine forward from within the heart again. Let it all go. Draw your wisdom through you and let it flow now. I am free to rise.” — Anima
Still. Be still for a moment. Move how you feel to this one. Let all those feelings wash over you. If it is too much or overwhelming or you are tired or scared — take your heart in your hand and be gentle, but take it out and dance with it. Let all the emotions come. All a part of you. You are totally loved. You are grounded. Dance your heart. Let it all go. Let freedom reign. Feel your innate soul, your beauty pour through you. Let the music move you. Let your tears flow. Be still — you can just move a finger if you wish. But feel. Let yourself feel. Without feeling you cannot do any of it.
TRACK 8
Crystal: Turquoise(add image of turquoise here)
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do” — Rumi
What do you want to say? What do you want to talk about? How do you want your life and business to be? Just let it out the way that you want. Be free to express yourself the way that you want to. Try moves that you have never done before. Move your body. Notice what you do. Change it. Try something new and let the new-ness of it flood you. Smile and see what happens in your heart. Just dance differently and see how your body really wants to be — how it wants to be seen, how it wants to move. Doing it good just means your way. No judgment. No comparison. Not like anyone else unless that is genuinely you.
TRACK 9
🎵 Get Up Offa That Thing — James Brown
Crystal: Bloodstone
“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down” — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Come on, it is time to do it! All this pontificating is well and good. We can think, plan, feel and go out for all the walks in nature, meditate and discuss that we like — but there comes a time when you just really need to get up offa that thing and do the work. Go and network, speak, promote, draw back the curtains and give us your very best dramatic pose. And go for it! The world is waiting for what you have to share, for what you want to say. We all need you. Go! See you on the other side.
TRACK 10
Crystal: Blue Lace Agate(add image of blue lace agate here)
“Always speak your truth, even if your voice shakes” — Unknown
It is okay to be seen. It is okay to stand up on the stage and speak about what makes you feel passionate. To express what makes your blood boil. Now is the time for us all to speak. To stop hiding. It is okay for you to shine. When you express yourself, when you speak your truth, you lay the path for others. You inspire others to be themselves too. This is the time when we all need to come together and speak out about what is not right anymore. Grab my hand and let’s dance together to that. Likewise, it is okay for everything that you feel to be expressed out of you.
“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a voice” — Maya Angelou
TRACK 11
Crystal: Aquamarine
We do not need to push against the tide. Every phase has its time. Time is not linear. There are no expectations. No rights and wrongs. Some days you will be fired up, getting it all done, setting the world on fire. Some days you will not want to get out of bed. Some days you will walk slowly through the worlds, breeze upon your face. Some days you will want to move sensuously and write. Some days will be a wild concoction of emotion, transformation and natural highs. Some days you may be pouring your heart out and peeling yourself off from the floor again. Let it all go. Go with the flow. There is a way of working which honours the natural flow, the cycle of life. Notice it. It changes all the time. Even in the length of a song. Dance that now.
TRACK 12
🎵 The Boss — Diana Ross
Crystal: Rose Quartz(add image of rose quartz here)
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart” — Confucius
Love is the boss. Follow your heart. Dance as if your heart were leading. Dance as though you were following your heart. Dance your heart out.
“The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself, everything that you want you already are.” — Rumi
And then there are the times when we only need to accept everything just as it is. We can move mountains some days. Some days we just need to let it be.
TRACK 13
Crystal: Blue Kyanite(add image of blue kyanite here)
“At times you have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.” — Alan Alda
Dance your intuition. If you knew how everything was going to turn out, would you still do it? We don’t need to know everything to take action. Just dance. Let your dance connect you with your inner wisdom, your soul, your third eye, your ability to connect to the world of magic, of synchronicity, of your intuitive soul. You know. You always knew. Dance this now.
CLOSING
“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.” — Joseph Campbell
Be just as you are, always and forever. Let your body flow with its passage of time through the world. Go with your feeling, your beat, your path, your direction. Let the rhythm of your heart just move you.