the BUTTERFLY
Beloved’s!
Happy SPRING EQUINOX, the pagan holiday of RUNNING WITH THE WILD RHYTHMS!
And thank you for subscribing to Soul SAUCE + FLOSS and (ostensibly) tackling my first TWO rituals—Giving Your Values A Voice and Cosmic Curveballs & Dropped Mics—and my first TWO workouts—the INCHWORM and the SNAKE.
This month, I’m delighted to share Shapeshifting & Soul Flight and the BUTTERFLY+ the Corset with you. Fly on over to on my YouTube channel, @drmlebeachwitch, to TRIM YOUR WAISTLINES like BUTTERFLIES do and cut deep into core strength you didn’t know you had!
Ideally, you do the BUTTERFLY | A Soul Sauce Workout and THEN you tackle Shapeshifting & Soul Flight | a Soul Floss Ritual.
BUTTERFLY, THEN Shapeshifting & Soul Flight.
SAUCE, then FLOSS.
Why the BUTTERFLY?
Spring a season for metamorphosis, transition, and radical change—when spring crocuses are poking their beautiful, optimistic heads up out of the snow.
As Chani Nicholas explains, “Spring steals attention. Spring makes lovers. Spring does not ask for permission. Spring pays no mind to those too ignorant to appreciate it. It is unwavering in its dedication to fulfill its duty. It arrives and, with its arrival, all life is changed.”
Chani aptly asks “Can we take the cue and break out of old patterns? Can we give up our training wheels, our blankies and our props? Can we say yes to growth? Yes to the kind of growth that brings us out of our caves of hibernation and dormancy? Some of us are adept at changing our address, our partners, our jobs and our hair colors but that is not the same as giving oneself over to the process of inner transformation.”
Can we sacrifice EVERY BIT of OURSELVES on the ALTAR of SELF TRANSFORMATION????
The butterfly literally digests herself as she prepare to transform and take flight!
Inside the chrysalis—that hard, hanging teardrop of self—the butterfly swims in her own cellular soup, assimilating every part of her past, and rebuilding herself using the patterns embedded deep in her psyche (imaginal discs).
We witches call this WOMB WORK!
In the fitness world we call this WAISTLINE WORK! The innovative Pilates-infused moves in my butterfly-inspired workout invite you to tune inward, get past the surface level of physical appearance and professional ambition, and fill your body up with love, love, love—the kind that takes consistency and practice and that can catalyze both internal and external transformation.
As I always like to say: “physical discipline is a complement to mental discipline, and vice versa: mental resilience is a complement to physical resilience.”
My TRADEMARK ALCHEMICAL BLEND of physical movement—the BUTTERFLY—and creative provocation—Shapeshifting & Soul Flight—is designed to jolt you into imaginative leaps and creative feats you didn’t know you had inside you.
You’ll need about 60-75 minutes total—45 minutes fitness, 15-30 minutes writing. This is a longer workout, beloveds—but guaranteed to jolt you into imaginative leaps and physical feats you didn’t know you had inside you!
(Try it! I guarantee you’ll leave with a delicious, enlivened feeling!)
xxxO, Dr. MLE | Beach Witch
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