Navigate Eclipse Season Doggie Style
Navigate Eclipse Season Doggie Style
a Soul SAUCE workout
Welcome to Eclipse Season!
Eclipses tend to bring power outages, power surges, fateful plot twists, dramatic makeovers, game-changing events, and/or the closure we didn’t even know we needed. Eclipses shine an uncompromising light on the shadows, unearth whatever it is we’ve been trying to hide, and force us to release anything everything that’s keeping us stuck—thereby paving the way for a new (and usually unexpected) storyline to unfold.
Eclipses come in pairs, and invite us to see and BE both sides of the coin: the light and the dark, the beginning and the end, the conscious and the subconscious, victim and villain, our socially celebrated selves and our inner dragons, our successes and our failures.
Eclipses challenge us to cleanse ourselves of outdated binaries and unhealthy patterns and write a new story—not either/or but BOTH/AND. It’s an opportunity to free ourselves from black and white societal narratives and meet ourselves—our true selves, not the ones who get us through the day—in the middle. As in the famous poem by Rumi:
Out beyond ideas
of wrong-doing and right-doing,
there is a field—I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language,
even the phrase “each other”
don't make any sense.
Or as Carl Jung argued:
“To confront a person with his shadow is to show him his own light. Once one has experienced a few times what it is like to stand judgingly between the opposites, one begins to understand what is meant by the self. Anyone who perceives his shadow and his light simultaneously sees himself from two sides and thus gets in the middle.”
Or as Mark Twain put it, slightly more ominously:
“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
Pisces + Libra = Individual
+ Collective Healing
On Tuesday, September 17th (10:34 PM ET/7:34 PM PT), there will be a partial lunar eclipse in Pisces and on Wednesday, October 2 (11:42 AM ET/8:24 AM PT) there will be a solar eclipse in Libra.
Pisces is healing, flushing out our wounds.
Libra, on the other hand, seeks fairness and harmony.
We need both in order to heal—as individuals, and as a society.
Self Care + September’s Lunar Eclipse
On this particular eclipse, the Sun is cleaning house in Virgo, hashing out all her to-do lists, and the Super Moon is chilling in the sign of Pisces, the dreamy dual fish swimming in opposite directions, signifying As Above, So Below.
During this eclipse, you’ll be nudged to consider how your day-to-day life and health (Virgo) is impacting your inner, mental and emotional well-being (Pisces) and vice versa. The eclipse serves as an initial push to begin to grow even more aware of your needs within these areas of your life.
It’s important to give yourself a chance sit back and feel whatever energetic waves are coming your way and note where the currents are pulling you without judgment or fear. Set aside time for some deliberate (Virgo) self-care (Pisces) and listen, really listen to the information your body is giving you (eclipse) about what’s brewing underneath the surface (Pisces) and what you can do to act on that information (Virgo).
My alchemical Core Cool Down Workouts are designed to do exactly this!
Each 20-minute routine is guaranteed to:
open up your entire body
flush out lactic acid, stress, and other toxins
reset your nervous system
grow core strength
tune out the white noise of daily life so you can tap into your deep inner wisdom and innate divinity
Think Vitamin B shot for the mind, body, and soul!
My Core Cool Down workouts are for EVERYONE regardless of fitness level or yoga experience. They will leave you refreshed and ready to navigate eclipse season’s curve balls, cliffhangers, and crash courses from a place of confidence, curiosity, and compassion.
Core Cool Down Classic
The Classic features some of my ALL TIME FAV yoga poses—Down Dog, Forward Twist, Puppy, and MORE!—and some of my SPECIAL SAUCE core moves—plank pikes, plank hip dips, and MORE!
One-Minute Teaser
The Classic
Core Cool Down Doggie Style
Doggie Style features some of my ALL TIME FAV Down Dog Combos—Rise & Shine Dog, Bear Dog, Half Dog and MORE!—and some of my SPECIAL SAUCE core moves—windshield wipers, plank boxes, scissors, flutter kicks and MORE!
One-Minute Teaser
Doggie Style
Core Cool Down | Froggie Style
Froggie Style features some of my ALL TIME FAV wall poses—wall frog, supported bridge, supine spinal twist, half dog, and MORE!—and some of my SPECIAL SAUCE core moves—frog crunches, windshield wipers, reverse curl extensions, and MORE!
One-Minute Teaser
Wall Variations
However you go about navigating this Super Moon Eclipse, I invite you to do everything you can to connect with your intuition—whether that’s journaling, pulling Tarot card, free-writing, meditation, yoga, drinking champagne with your besties, traipsing in an autumnal harvest field, and/or being in nature or near a body of water.
That’s all for now, babes!
You can access the rest of my transformative Soul SAUCE workouts on Youtube and all of my alchemical Soul FLOSS rituals here on Substack.
xxxO, Dr. MLE | Beach Witch
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