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Welcome to a New Chapter in the CREATRIX School

Dear Creatrix,

Our lives are such incredible miracles.

Everything is moving, is changing at all times. We are always in motion, life is always in motion. Life is motion.

Just imagine that many cells in our bodies get replaced every seven years (see how this works exactly), some more often, some less, yet, it’s quite amazing. Nothing about our physical appearance stays the same, as we age and grow and change with our environment and experiences. Still, our essence always remains.

Or think about the fact, that theoretically we could be pressed through a sieve because all the parts that make up our bodies are separate, and not held together by anything but energy, yet, we, as a person, remain in form.

It is so magical, really.

Yet, what do you think about when you think of your body?

I feel like most people immediately think of something that they don’t like about themselves. Something that is too big or too small, not quite as it should be or how we would like it to be.

Which really is a shame because without our body we wouldn’t have any of the experiences we have every day.

Without our bodies we couldn’t drink, eat, smell, touch, sing, dance, play, cry, yell, feel, hear, see, hug, make love, kiss, blush, fall, hurt, jump, fly, swim and so much more.

Our body gives us everything that we need every single day, yet most of us are more accustomed to being ashamed of it, being upset about it, or being critical about our body, than being grateful for all the wonderful sensations it allows us to have every single day.

We are souls having a body experience, and, in a way, our time on this earth is all about our body and the possibility of experiencing life in the physical form.

Our body is, what allows us to be alive on this planet and to experience everything that this life is about.

When our body dies, we move on into different realms, and while our life will continue in other ways, our life on earth, as we know it, will end.

And I think because of this, it is time to start to celebrate our body more.

And to celebrate our body and to build a new, better relationship with it, we devote ourselves to really getting to know our body in this moon phase in the CREATRIX School.

What do we use our bodies for?

Are you really aware of how you use your body?

That it determine every single moment of your life?

Maybe not in the way you think, like that you may be judged for it, but how you perceive and interact with the world.

Because that is what we will be focusing on this month.

What does it feel like when you put on your socks?

What does brushing your teeth feel like?

How do you feel on days you go to your yoga class?

How do you feel when you skip it?

What’s the first thing you notice when you haven’t eaten for a while?

What does it feel like when you eat too much?

Our bodies take us to work. Our bodies attend weddings, funerals, swimming lessons, go hiking, travel, graduate.

Some of our bodies give birth, all of our bodies create life.

And no one has to tell us how to do it. No one had to tell us how to be an embryo and turn into a baby.

No one had to tell us how to grow into the person we are now, and how to grow our bodies, how to go through every phase of our lives, maybe we were lucky enough to have people who supported us on our way, but a lot we just had to figure out ourselves, or we start figuring it out now. Yet, we all got here, whether we wanted to or not.

And while most of the time we think of our lives as being quite fragile, we’re also pretty hard to kill.

People are using drugs, alcohol, they are starving themselves, others are overeating, not sleeping enough, or hiding from the world and don’t get the exercise or love or joy or sunshine they need. Yet, we are still alive.

People survived concentration camps, other form of torture and imprisonment, periods of starvation, desperation, live in hiding, or in wars.

I’ve had friends who tried to end their lives and didn’t succeed, I’ve had friends who did succeed.

I’ve had people I love die too young, and others having a hard time dying of old age, even though they wanted to.

We can’t know when or how our life is going to end for sure, and maybe that is a good thing.

But we can make the best of our lives every day, and to me, that starts with appreciating our body.

Not nitpicking about our nose or our ass or whatever it is that is bothering us, but being grateful every day that we have a body that allows us to live our lives.

The experiences we have often shape the lives we live – until we consciously decide for something else.

Many face discrimination because of the way their body looks, because of the colour of their skin, because of their gender, or because their body somehow deviates from the norm.

I have struggled for forty years to come to love my body. I grew up thinking I wasn’t pretty enough, that I just wasn’t good at sports, that I had to live with chronic illness all my life, but I also realized that none of that was true.

I learned that beauty is not about certain features, though it certainly can be, but it is much more about the heart and the confidence and the joy and the lust for life.

We are attracted to people not for their good looks, but for the whole way that they are and how their presences feels.

And I created this course, so you and me, we all, can discover how to become fully confident in our bodies, and to discover our passions and new possibilities to be in this world in our bodies – no matter what it looks like or what other people think and whether we have special needs and abilities or not.

I’d love for you to experience for yourself how easy it can be to turn things around once we start believing in ourselves and begin to see for ourselves how much more is possible than we ever dared to imagine.

To get there, I will teach you the essentials we need to keep our bodies flexible and heathy for the rest of our lives, as I have learned them on my way here, from teachers, books and through practice.

Some of these essentials are related to movement and exercise, and based on the newest scientific research as well as ancient wisdom, but many of them have much more to do with how we think about ourselves and how to train our thinking, to come into balance and live joyfully and consciously.

Life is motion

We are in a constant flow of life, and once we learn how to really become a natural part of that flow, life becomes much more effortless.

Just like we turned from a cell into an embryo and from that into a fully alive and separate human being – the force of life pushes us into our next developmental stages naturally, all we have to do is let it happen.

Most of the time we block that flow of life, though. With fears, with insecurities, with doubts, with criticism.

If you’d like to overcome these doubts and fears and bring in more of the love and compassion that fuels the flow of life, then this is for you.

Because I think it’s time to become all you could possibly be.

To live and love freely, to enjoy, experience and explore. It’s time to start living your best life.

Are you ready?