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Unlocking Healing Through Ecstatic Dance with Jennifer Mirambeau | Sneaker Impact News
In this episode host Bryan the Botanist sits down with Jennifer Mirambeau, aka Jenergy, a visionary movement artist and the founder of Ecstatic Flow. Jennifer shares her journey into the world of ecstatic dance and how it has transformed her life. She explains the deep healing and transformative power of freeform dance, and provides insights into creating a judgment-free, substance-free space for self-expression and emotional release. The discussion also touches on themes of sustainability, environmentalism, inner child healing, and the importance of reconnecting with nature. Join us to learn more about her inspiring community events, her approach to movement, and indulge in a brief guided dance session to connect with your inner self.
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Introduction and Guest Introduction
Bryan The BotanistWelcome back to Sneaker Impact News. Today I have special guest, Jennifer Mirambeau, aka Jenergy. Hi Jen. How you doing?
JenergyHey, I am great. Feeling inspired.
Bryan The BotanistAwesome. Thanks for coming by the Sneaker Impact Studio. Jenergy is a dear friend of mine for many years. She's a visionary artist of movement. Dance and prayer performance. She holds workshops and is an ecstatic dance facilitator and also the founder of Ecstatic Flow. Yes. I also know you have a big background in sustainability, science
Discovering Ecstatic Dance
Bryan The Botanistand environmentalism but first let's start off with ecstatic dance. What is Ecstatic dance and how did you get into it?
JenergyYeah. Ecstatic Dance is a freeform dance movement designed to just really allow you to express your truth without judgment, without needs to go into a certain choreography, certain steps, but just really allowing you to in, to tap into your free movement and see how we can release tension trauma. Trapped emotions and liberate ourselves from some of these things.
Bryan The BotanistAmazing. So like a judgment free space?
JenergyYeah, judgment Free space. Substance free space. We're actually just going and connecting with the music, without needing alcohol or drugs to get us somewhere. Mm-hmm. And be able to drop in. And it's a very deep healing and transformational experience. When you really treat it like a practice. It's kinda like a yoga. You gotta show up to it. Mm-hmm. And showing up to the mat, showing up to the, to the dance floor. It really catalyzes a, a powerful journey, a transformational journey in one's life. And that's. Why I was, why I started, uh,
Personal Transformation Through Dance
Jenergythe experience here in Miami because it really impacted me in such a deep way. I, I grew up here in Miami and was going to clubs and bars and feeling like, you know, there was all this certain frequency of like, you had to look a certain way. You had to be a certain way. You had to walk and talk a certain way. And I felt. Disconnected from my truth. I started to hold on to a lot of shame inside of my body. I was judging myself, comparing myself, myself to others, and needing a lot of alcohol in order for me to feel free. And it was destroying my health. It was destroying my mental state and I didn't realize how toxic it was 'cause it was just so normal, uh, with the society around me and still really is. Um, and so once I started going to ecstatic dance, it was, it really changed my life in such a beautiful way that I just wanted to share it with the community here.
Bryan The BotanistAwesome. So like when did this all take place as transformation and like was there a specific moment or was it obviously like more of a progression and like. You know, gradual change over time or was there a big aha moment?
JenergyYeah. There was actually a really big aha moment over 10 years ago when I was at UCF studying environmental studies.
Bryan The BotanistMm-hmm.
JenergyAnd, um, I had a powerful psychedelic journey in the forest where I, all of my like creative energy started to kind of come forth mm-hmm. Where I thought I wasn't an artist. Before I thought, you know, that wasn't for me. Mm-hmm. And I just started unlocking these parts of myself. And around that time I started going to music festivals and dancing and really experiencing the power of dance without needing to take substances in order to get me there. Although there was some substances that kind of catalyzed that. Sure. But then after that it was like, oh wow. I kind of unlocked more of a
Bryan The Botanistmindful approach to, yeah. I kind of unlocked something
Jenergyopen.
Bryan The BotanistYeah. Wow.
JenergyAnd, and then with that unlocking, it was like, oh, I feel way more free now and I don't need these things to get me there, but I can, I can access the state through dance. And upon doing that, um, I really started seeing how the ways in which I was operating before it was actually out fear and was actually out of shame and there was some guilt I was holding onto. And so once I started to kind of dance through those vibrations, started to feel more joy in my life. Started to feel more. Freedom in my life, more clarity and just overall deeper sense of health and wellness.
Bryan The BotanistYeah. I've always known you as like a free spirit and dance instructor, Jenergy. That was how I first met you. I've seen on your Instagram so many amazing events you're doing in the community that are all substance free, super healing. And I know the planet is important to you too. Um, so. H what are your advice to people who come to your class? Like walk us
Guiding a Dance Class
Bryan The Botanistthrough like a little bit of how you guide people.
JenergyYeah. So we start off with an opening circle. And the opening circle is really to set that container instead of just going in and music's already playing. Sure. And you know, to really connect us with each other. Mm-hmm. So we have some sort of an icebreaker so people feel safe to express their voice. 'cause that's a big part of it, is feeling safe to express yourself in all the ways. So there's a little bit of icebreaker, a little bit of introducing yourself. Yeah. And maybe like a, a, a noise to kind of represent where you're at right now. Okay. Or a movement to represent how you're feeling right now. And we kind of watch and embody that movement together. There's different kinds of icebreakers that we'll go into, and then we talk about what is ecstatic dance and why is this important and how is this different than just going to a club and Sure. You know, and just like we're sitting in a circle already that's very different, just
Bryan The Botanistpop and like the head B and you see in the crowd. Yeah. Or like the little bit of like little bit of movement. Yeah. But like, this is really about. Expression, let it go. Yeah. You know? 'cause I hold tension in my shoulders and in my hips.
JenergyYeah.
Bryan The BotanistAnd I know I'm not alone. Yeah. A lot of people hold tension in their bodies because we're, we're kind of stiff in general in society. Right. And then also it's like the programming and like societal norms and like Exactly. People look at maybe ecstatic dancing as like something that. Is for an artist only. Yeah. But it's really for everyone.
JenergyYeah. Or for dancers only. Right. Or for dancer only professional dancers. Sure. And you think like, oh, well I don't know how to dance so I can't dance. Yeah. But dance, you know, there's difference between a choreographed dance and then dance as as just your embodied expression. We all have expression, we all have a body. Mm-hmm. We can move. Um, you know, we're not talking about certain steps and certain choreography that, you know, you need to in order to know how to do that. Right. So this is really dropping the rules and coming into how our body intuitively wants to move. Mm-hmm. And so we talk about that before the dance. So. People don't think they have to Dr. Do anything in a certain way. They could roll around on the ground and just like Yeah. You know, be in that they could torque for an hour and that would release a lot of tension in the back and that's actually really powerful.
Bryan The BotanistSure.
JenergyUm, there, you know, that would also release a lot of, if you hold onto shame in the lower energy centers that would support that, you know, release and would create a safe space so that. You don't feel like, oh, if I move in essential way, some guy's gonna come up and like touch me or without consent. It's a safe
Bryan The Botanistspace too, where that people are not drinking alcohol. Mm-hmm. And there's, this isn't like your typical, like you said at all a club. It's a sacred space. Yeah. It's a sacred space to
Jenergycome in. And so when we talk about consent, we, we talk about how to find out if someone wants to dance with you. We make sure, okay. That we don't touch people without them wanting to be touched. Very important. You know, we encourage people to dance with each other. We want to encourage connection. Mm-hmm. We wanna make sure that it's a safe space. And you know, someone might have trauma, they might be going there to release that and someone just touching them without asking, could rec catalyze that? So. Go. We have these kind of ground rules before we start and something that's different is that we actually, in the, in the dance floor and through the central dance floor era, we actually have a no talking rule once the dance starts.
Bryan The BotanistOkay. So
Jenergywe can go really deep into the dance. I love, without being in the mind. 'cause this whole practice is about getting out of the mind and into the body. Mm-hmm. And we're so used to being in the mind on a daily basis. We work, we talk, we, you know, everything is like. Right here. And that kind of disconnects us from being in here. And the way I see it as like masculine and feminine energy, not to be confused with man and women. This is masculine and feminine. So masculine being like in the mind and feminine being in the body. Okay. And the, the like release of control and surrender and then. Masculine being the structure, which both are important and both are necessary. Mm-hmm. To create balance and harmony within oneself and in the planet. But if we're out of balance with that, maybe too much in the mind, too much in the masculine. Again, this is not men and women, this isn't, men are bad and good that some women even are too much in
Bryan The Botanistthe mind.
JenergyExactly. Yeah.
Bryan The BotanistAnd,
Jenergyand too much in the structure and the controlling. And so that would take us out of balance. And so when we can come into balance, like when we can use a poor dance as a practice of coming into balance, getting in our bodies, having a practice where we're release the structure and release the judgment mm-hmm. And release the mind and come into that, it's, it's a powerful, energetic and emotional release that's, that's really powerful. And especially in our day and age where. You know, vulnerability can be seen as something weak. Um, emotion accessing, you know, deeper states of emotions can be seen as something that maybe we judge. Mm-hmm. And we can kind of start to drop all of that. Those like social norms that are actually restricting. They don't really. Support us. Um, we can really, we can really sense it's tap into a deeper sense of freedom and liberation and health in that for men and women, especially men because, you know, I've, from what I've, you know, heard from my brother, my, you know, my friends, my brothers that are, you're my brother, you know, they've been conditioned to not express emotions as much. Mm-hmm. Especially. Mm-hmm. Sadness and grief. Sure. And so, you know, if you come into an experience and like the, so the music is designed to catalyze you to go into deeper emotions as well. Mm-hmm. Um, you know, it can be just all house and up, like high vibe house and stuff, but it also can take us to some more sonder places, some more emotional spaces, and to have a, an experience where you can release emotions and feel safe for that. That's a really powerful experience, especially for men who may. Who may never cry or never feel safe to cry because they've been told their whole life that that makes them weak. When that, in fact, that actually creates a deeper sense of strength because they're no longer holding onto like an illusion, essentially.
Bryan The BotanistYeah, that's great. I'm sure you've gotten people that have been brought by a friend or just were needing that. Um. I have a question about the words ecstatic
The Concept of Ecstatic Flow
Bryan The Botanistflow. Mm-hmm. So can you explain what that means during the practice? Like, do you experience ecstasy and then what does flow mean?
JenergyYeah, so, you know, with, with the, the overall like event, you know, it's an ecstatic dance event and these kind of ecstatic dance events happen all around the world. It's a, a, a movement that's global. Um, my company is called Ecstatic Flow, which is like, we do ecstatic dance, but we also have different types of events. Uh, under the umbrella of like the ecstatic flow community mm-hmm. And ecstatic is, is really tapping into that state of ecstasy and it's like a mystical kind of experience, um, that. It allows us to see life beyond just the physical.
Bryan The BotanistMm-hmm.
JenergyAnd tap into more of the energetic and spiritual aspects of life. And, um, you can cata have a mystical experience without taking any sort of psychedelic, psychedelics can definitely catalyze that, but the goal with ecstatic flow is to be able to access these states without necessarily needing to take anything. That's why we utilize, you know, static dance,
Bryan The Botanistlike a natural, a natural euphoria. It's like
Jenergya natural euphoria, natural high. And the state of flow is. Is really, you know, a kind of, again, being out of the mind in the pre, so engulfed in the present moment that time tends to sense to like dilate. We, our sense of time just is like, feels distorted because we're so in the present moment that it feels like oneness and that's really a big component of my movement. Ecstatic flow is sharing about oneness, sharing about unity consciousness, which essentially is like, kind of takes me back to when I was in college studying environmental studies and being like, well. You know, I'm learning about all of what's, what's wrong in the world, the climate change, the deforestation, the sea level rise, all of these things, you know, the, the carbon in the atmosphere and being like, wow, like we're kind of screwed. Like Yeah. Extinction and stuff. What are we gonna do? Yeah. Or in like the sixth grade extinction. Yeah. And, and I was like, how are we gonna solve all of this? And like their felt like their answers, like in university were like, gotta fight the fight. Fight the politicians fight. And it was a lot of just like this resistance and fighting energy. Then when I had this spiritual awakening on, uh, with mushrooms in a forest back in 2012, I was like, wow, I had this oneness experience. And all of a sudden everything kind of started to make sense in a different way. Mm-hmm. Um, like yoga started to really make sense at that point. And yoga is, again, union is all about oneness. And then I like, oh wow. Humanity just gets to remember oneness because when we remember that we are one with all life, that I'm one with you. That I'm one with the earth. Yeah. The air, the water, and the fire. I want to protect myself. Mm-hmm. I realize that separation is an illusion. I realize that that. Everything is connected and so my actions directly impact you. My actions directly impact the waters, the air. Absolutely. And I get to be that change. And so if I see myself as as one with all life, then I'm going to make decisions that are gonna be in coherence with that. Uh, and people who are politicians will make better decisions on greater. You know, decisions for the world, for the country, for the planet, uh, corporations, you know, are a group of people, right? Mm-hmm. So those people remember oneness. They're gonna remember, oh, they're gonna want to make decisions that are better for the planet. And that's why with, with dance, it, it's like a, a remedy to that because when we dance, we have to release judgment. We have to come together, we have to see, with ecstatic dance, we, we have to see that. We're all one, otherwise we're gonna be in the dance, we're gonna be uncomfortable. We'll be judging people. We'll feel, you know, like I can't connect, but that's all the mind that's telling the body, oh, I'm not safe. These people are not me. Like I like these, but I don't like those. You know? And the dance is like that remedy to that, that we can just like drop all of that. Mm-hmm. And come into community together and hence. The word unity at the end of community is like recognizing that we're all one, but really building up, sharing that mindset of unity, consciousness. Yep. Of oneness. And then dancing together as an embodied expression of our truth.
Bryan The BotanistYes. And do sometimes like people even close their eyes so they encourage me not to like take in so much information. 'cause I know I'm kind of shy and I would feel like maybe. At first, but until then, once you tell me all of this, the background and the stuff you prime people with to get them the best practices, but even what it would call is just like the, the, the, the rules of, you know, of your class is that, you know, no one's looking at each other and forming judgments like we all are going within. So. You could close your eyes, I'm sure, right? Yeah, yeah. And shy people like me, you just gotta go for it.
JenergyYeah, and that's a great point, like doing it blindfolded even for just like a part of it. Yeah. Is a really powerful practice to just get out of the mind, get out of the like, oh, I'm looking at that person and I'm comparing myself. 'cause if you have that pattern for so long, it might. Take a few, you know, times of going to the event to like really start to or drop that, that me, did I
Bryan The Botanistcatch eye contact? Like it doesn't, like we're starting to get into our mind then. Yeah. Versus staying in our body.
JenergyYeah. 'cause it's really not about what it looks like. It's just about the feeling. Sure. You
Bryan The Botanistcan learn whatever. Like I'm just bumping around. I'm just bouncing, Hey, that's what I'm doing. Exactly. I'm. Doing some robotic stuff. That's what I'm doing. You know? That's what I'm feeling. Yeah. And it doesn't matter what you're doing. You could be a professional dancer and come in and not look professional just because you wanted to be free. Yeah, exactly. Some, yeah. Or all of a sudden you're embodying what could be deemed as, oh my God, this person looks, but again, you're not looking and you're not forming judgments. That's, I think the biggest thing is you're more like. Meditating and taking in this community Yeah. That is there to embrace you and not, you know, this is not what most people are used to.
JenergyYeah.
Bryan The BotanistWhen most people go to a wedding or they go to a bar mm-hmm. Or a club. Mm-hmm. Um, I'm a dj. You're a dj. Mm-hmm. I mean, we, we, we we're in a lot of different venues. Mm-hmm. I know. You know, and, um, you're playing to very mindful audiences in general, but you know, your background is such that you've now cultivated this community around you where you're putting on events year round. And I want, I want you to now, if you can tell us about some of these amazing
Community Events and Sustainability
Bryan The Botanistevents you're doing. Yeah. On a monthly basis in the community.
JenergyYeah. So here in Miami we have an event called Expansion Ecstatic Dance Miami, where we, we do a community dance, and now we're starting to do a cacao dance ceremony. Okay. So the community dance is a little bit lower ticket price. We wanna, you know, get as many people in there. Mm-hmm. Dancing, connecting, going deeper. And, um, and, and there's always a sharing circle at the end too, where people get an opportunity to be like, you know, wow, this dance, I've never been to Tatic dance before. I was always judging people when they were dancing weird. And now I realize, oh my gosh, like that was just my mind and I get to free myself and I'm, I'm, I'm connected. You know, like things like that. Or I had such a bad, you know, so people like I had. Such a stressful day. And then I came here. Now I feel free and I, I can relax and drop in and I feel safe in my body. Made new
Bryan The Botanistfriends, people share all type of things. Yeah.
JenergyRight. And then the cacao dance ceremony, which we're starting, looks like in April, is a deeper, um, little bit, little bit of a higher ticket price. Mm-hmm. Uh, event where we have a cacao ceremony, so people would drink cacaos like. And instead of drinking alcohol or Dr. Taking some sort of substance, cacao has its own energizing and heart opening properties to it.
Bryan The BotanistYeah. So part of it as a heart opener. Right.
JenergyAnd it's really beautiful. So then we get to like, it's almost like a me a plant medicine experience, but not a psychedelic one.
Bryan The BotanistAnd the thero gives you a little bit of energy too.
JenergyYes, exactly. And, and then we have a little bit longer of like a sharing at the ceremony circle at the end, a sound healing, and we can bring on different artists for that. So we'll have like a little bit, you know, mm-hmm. A bigger budget for it so we can bring on some, you know, bigger headliners in the future. And, um, really co-create something really, really special. So every, it's basically, right now, it's every first and third Friday of the month. Okay. So the next one's actually this Friday.
Bryan The BotanistOh wow.
JenergyThe third Friday of the month. Okay. And I'll be DJing it. And, and so we have, we bring on different DJs, different community. This is the community dance. Yeah. And then, um, and then we'll start with the cacao dance ceremonies next month, which I'm really excited about. We'll have like a different Is
Bryan The Botanistsacred like a source? Like it's this organic Yeah. Some people don't even know what cacao is maybe, but it's, it's the mm-hmm. You want tell them? Yeah. Like
Jenergythe pure form of chocolate before all the sugar. The tree, right? Yeah. It's the pod.
Bryan The BotanistIt's, and then they get the, the pods out of there and that the cacao nibs are made outta the dried cacao. Right. But you can make, yep. Really beautiful paste. And is it like Yeah, the drink though? It's a hot drink.
JenergyYeah, it's a hot drink. Yeah. So it gets like, melted down into a liquid and then usually added some sort of spices. Sometimes they make it a little bit spicy with cayenne and ginger. Sometimes people will add coconut milk to it and make it a little bit more creamy. Um, some people will add sugar and sweetener to it. Mm-hmm. Um, usually like, you know, some sort of cane sugar, organic brown sugar, more like chocolate. A little bitter or honey. Yeah. But it's, it's more bitter. Yeah. Rather than like your Hershey's milk chocolate or something like that. Which LY has milk in
Bryan The Botanistit. Yeah, exactly. So milk, salads or whatever. Yeah. Versus a very organic grown on mm-hmm. Sustainably produced farms and Yeah.
JenergyUsually somewhere in central and South America, we regener
Bryan The Botanistlike permaculture, take places. Yeah. This is awesome. So, yeah. Um, and I heard you did last weekend, a full moon beach party in Virginia Key. Yes. I was unfortunately booked double days and I couldn't come, but I I'm gonna come to your next one 'cause I was watching what you guys do. Yeah. Like you were describing it on Instagram and like you're. Popping up on this beach, um, is my understanding. Yeah. With artists. Mm-hmm. And for the full moon. And tell us more, like I, and tell us about how sustainable it is.
JenergyYeah. So we start off with a, uh, breathwork class to really ground us, center us on the beach. Mm-hmm. Yeah. So we, we set up the speed, we bring the speakers. We have vendors all like mm-hmm. Sustainable, like food, vendors, food and I, different items, you know, there's no plastic. Even for like the water that we give, we have a water sponsor, a live water. Oh wow. They deliver fresh, pristine spring water to your home or office. Yeah. In glass containers. So there's zero trace of the industrial age in the water. 'cause they get really great sourced, uh, spring water. And then there's no plastic, there's, you're not throwing away these plastic water. You bring your own containers too. Yep. We encourage people to bring their own water bottles if they forget or they don't, you know, have one. We do have some paper compostable cups. Okay. Um, so again, no plastic, no vendors aren't just like
Bryan The Botanista. State Park. Yeah. Virginia Key is a very pristine Yeah. Natural area. It's not like some urbanized Yeah. Yet it's right on the edge of the city of downtown Miami. Yep. On the edge of like Ki Biscayne and it's set right on the ocean. Mm-hmm. And there's many festivals there from like Art with me. Yeah. But everyone does it consciously. Love Burn. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You go Love
JenergyBurn This year. Uh, it didn't go this year. I've been many times. Yeah. It's, I can. One of my favorites. I love it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's awesome. And Art with me is incredible too. And I was just at that same spot for We Belong Here Festival. Mm-hmm. I've heard we belong
Bryan The Botanisthere. Yeah.
JenergyAnd so I do like a little bit of a beach cleanup after, 'cause some people, you know, leave trash and things unfortunately. And I do my best to leave it better than I found it. So I'm always picking up the plastic straws from other people who have events that are a little bit less mindful, but usually they're all still pretty sustainable. Um, and I'm probably gonna talk to the park and see if they could, you know, ban these plastic straws. 'cause I found like so many on the ground S foam too. Yeah, yeah. But for, uh, my company, we never use any of that. I always encourage the vendors to have compostable. Plates or anything that they're using. Um. And not the, the plastic fake, compostable stuff. Mm-hmm. Like the real, you know, paper, paper stuff. Or even just like bring your own, bring your own stuff. So reusable. Yeah. Glass
Bryan The Botanistor,
Jenergyyeah. That's, that's definitely the best. Yeah. And I always carry my reusable glass water bottle. Mm-hmm. I do my best like to not use plastic unless like I absolutely need it. Like, I'm not gonna, you know, die of thirst if.
Bryan The BotanistWell, I read last week a study that said just removing plastic water bottles from your life and consumption removes the amount of, um, microplastics you consume as a human being. From 90, it was like 90,000 parts per billion per day to like 4,000 parts. And now I might be wrong per day versus per. Weak or whatever. But yeah, like it's significant said you reduce your plastic microplastic consumption intake by like 85 to 90% just by not buying. Yeah. So like I'm a cross country coach and like about five or six years ago, I stopped letting the school or me ever buy plastic water bottles for the kids and we just use giant coolers. Yeah. And we use like paper cups or have them bring their own bottles and like Exactly. Otherwise it's like boxed water. Yeah. Or canned water. Anything but plastic water bottles. Yeah. Same. Same. Like, and let's get these companies to stop producing them. Mm-hmm. Like find better materials.
JenergyYeah.
Bryan The BotanistThat are biodegradable.
JenergyYeah.
Bryan The BotanistThat don't release. Because the plastic water bottles are probably the worst thing for your body. Okay. And also for our environment. Yeah. Along with plastic bags. Yeah. Straws, you know, all these things that you can just, we all have metal straw, hopefully a lot of us do in the mindful community now. Yeah. Like I have like 10 to 20 metal straws. I got one in my key chain that unfolds. Oh, that's cool. It's a forever straw, you know, but yeah, like you don't need, and if you don't like the paper ones, so some people don't like the paper ones 'cause they fall apart. Yeah. They're sugar cane ones now. Yeah. That stay strong for a long time. Yeah. And then there's the metal ones. Yeah. Like I have friends that love to drink their smoothies or their matcha. Yeah. Out of their metal straw because Yeah. You don't have to, you know it. A lot of this is going in the ocean. Yeah. And you grew up here, so, uh, you've lived in Miami your whole life?
JenergyUm, I, most of your life. I was born and raised, and then I left for college. I, I moved to Orlando Uhhuh, go to UCF. And then after I graduated, um, with my bachelor's, then I actually moved to Denver, Colorado. I was only there for a few months. And then I was in LA and I was based in LA from 2015 to 2018.
Bryan The BotanistOkay.
JenergyYeah. And then I moved back basically at the beginning of. 2018 or end of 2018, beginning of 2019 back
Bryan The Botanistto Miami. I think that's, I met you maybe even before you went to la, but maybe right after. Through Liv Altman, I remember. Yeah, Aaron. Aaron May have been one of the people that introduced me to, yeah. Yeah, that was
Jenergyprobably when I moved right back. That was probably 20. 2019 around there. Yeah. Yeah.
Bryan The BotanistAnd you were helping us get the word out and Yeah. Educate about clean beauty and clean nutrition. Yeah.
JenergyFunctional mushrooms. Functional mushrooms. Yeah. Really big on functional mushrooms. You've using those in
Bryan The Botanistyour classes?
JenergyYeah. Yeah. I,
Exploring the Benefits of Functional Mushrooms
Jenergyum, utilize, like, these are lion's mane and corsets, and Rei, not the
Bryan The Botanistpsilocybin, which usually we will
Jenergyactually add functional mushrooms to the cacao. Mm-hmm. So I'm really big on that. Um, they're so good for the immune system brain, you know, they can even remove. Plastics from, from mushrooms have the power to remove plastics from the ocean, which is something that they're, yeah. They found it
Bryan The Botanistgrowing in the Pacific patch. They found fungi growing and breaking down. Yeah.
JenergyMushrooms are incredible. And you know, just the fact that they catalyze such a profound transformational experience and mystical experience and enlightening experience for me in my life, that continues to ripple out this day. Mm-hmm. And even just like what the functional mushrooms do for the body and, and our mind and our health and clarity. Lion's, manness. So good for the brain and, and the nervous system and it's just, it's incredible that nature provides us with so much Yeah. That we, you know, we often think we need
Natural Remedies vs. Pharmaceuticals
Jenergyto go to the pharmacy and get all of these things in order to feel better when actually in reality, that's making us worse. Yeah. And
Bryan The Botanistit's kind of like. Desensitizing us and yeah, kind of placating us in the sense that there are a lot of side effects. And with, my mom was a pharmacist for 35 years in a hospital. She's retired now and I love her to death. Yeah. But, and she's my, she's my hero, but she also worked in the pharmaceutical industry, in the hospital. So I saw her go to the conferences and bring home all this stuff. And then, you know, me. Like I grew up also on an organic farm. My older brother and I became an herbalist and a botanist. Mm-hmm. You know, at a young age. And I've always vibed towards natural cures. Yeah. From even a teenager now. Yeah. So for 30 years I've been always recommend and I've stayed clear of pharmaceutical. Not everyone can do that because there are some major medical needs for certain things. Right. Like even when I had Achilles surgery, of course they had to have me take some things to help at first with the pain or inflammation, but just for a day or two. Yeah, but like in general, yeah. When it comes to antidepressants, like they
Mental Health and the Power of Movement
Bryan The Botanistfound exercises so much better for you. Dance. Dance. Like they found research like a hundred times more effective than any antidepressant pharmaceutical you can take. It's just
Jenergylike the biggest thing I'm trying to share with mushrooms, with humanity, it's mushroom and mushrooms
Bryan The Botanistis like my
Jenergybiggest
Bryan The Botanistthing. People are scared of mushrooms 'cause they have these kind of, some people. Are scared because of the connotation or the Yeah. Association with magic mushrooms or their, or, or mold even. We learned when I did some of my studies that there's a, a micro phobia just because the media has scared people so much with mold in their homes that they associate mold with something like a Lions, Maine or Cortis, which is sacred. Like the Chinese have used these medicines for 5,000 years or more. Mm-hmm. And they literally like cortisols boost your qi. Yeah. You know, and your energy through, and it also, it, it like repairs your DNA and it like helps with like your. It just helps you with, so it's an adaptogen. Yeah. So wherever you're, you need adapt, support it, it helps you. Yeah. And they don't have side effects that that, I mean, if you were to combine it with like maybe a medication, there would be a side effect. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But like, if you just take things mindfully and under the guidance of Exactly. Doing your research and figuring out for yourself, or having someone who's very intelligent or knowledgeable, like what you or I, that, you know, we've both have over a decade. Experience with, with, with functional mushrooms, and so we're resources to help people Yeah. Understand that. You know, it's okay if if you don't understand them, like ask questions, like lines may not. I'll show you a study from PubMed that shows how it can help increase neuron growth in your brain and help to. Help with concentration of memory and people with early stage dementia are getting huge benefits from these things. Exactly. So why not our soldiers who come back from war with PTSD, they need support. Exactly. And there's many things besides mushrooms even that you've Yeah. That you teach people about to help with trauma and with, you know, other mental health issues, which, you know, is important. It runs in my family. My youngest brother has schizophrenia, so, you know, I really care about people that. Have mental health. Yeah. And it's a stigma we need to release. Yeah. You know, judgment of, 'cause it hap every family is affected in, in, in the, almost in the world by a mental health of some sort. Yeah. 'cause it's, it's something that we just all need to learn about in our lives. No one is immune from it. Exactly. I don't think, I don't think anyone's immune from, we all have to go through the journey. We all have our stuff. Yeah.
JenergyWe all, we all have our trauma. We all grew up in this, you know, society. Mm-hmm. Our parents did the best they could, you know, but they, their trauma from their parents mm-hmm. And their parents, you know, and so it gets passed down generation upon generation and then school and we have, and then our often and other places, school, yeah. Often interaction with our peers. You know, shut up, be quiet, listen, and you might suppress your creativity or be mm-hmm. You know, maybe you got made fun of in school. Maybe your teacher said something that triggered you. You didn't even realize that that made you believe a certain thing about yourself. So that's gonna be a lot of mental reprogramming. You might have to feel like. To know that if you have something like that, you would have to tune in and see If you start to feel shame during your, your reality, like your reality, like you start to have this self-criticism or self-doubt, it's probably because something happened early on in your life mm-hmm. That made you believe a certain thing about yourself. Is actually an illusion that's not true. Yep. And, and then you get to rewire that and you get to release the emotions that are stuck and stagnant, that are blocking the energy. Maybe there's, you know, some extra tightness in your shoulders because of it, or your hips because of it. And when we realize the mind body connection and we just accept that and realize, like release any judgment or shame about it, and we can really start to heal and we just come into like the truth of who we are, which is true love and freedom. Like we are born, you know, these beautiful innocent beings and we have been taught to think that we're born wrong or born as a sinner. And then it goes down to like some deeper stuff in that when we actually can realize like, oh wow. It's only like the things that have, that I've been taught. I'm really just pure love and I get to release the, the, the barriers to that, the, the mind that that tells me, oh, I'm not good enough, or I'm not worthy, or, oh, that's for them and not for me, or I'm, I'm less than because I'm comparing myself in all of these things. And we do a lot of rent mental reprogramming, which is the masculine form of healing. And then the, the, the feminine form of healing, which is the physical, energetic, and emotional releases that we get to have. And dance is such a powerful way to do that unstructured free movement.
Bryan The BotanistYeah,
Jenergyand there's lots of different other types of of trauma release therapy that we can do as well. Yeah. That helps that.
Bryan The BotanistYeah. I think, um, saying, I always remind myself, someone told me this even a year ago when I was bringing up even, you know, I'm a runner and I was dealing with this injury and like I'm a little sad 'cause see, I see others running and oh well one of my, anyways, I was comparing and they said to me, comparison is a thief of joy. And yeah. It's like I need to write that on my mirror at home. Yeah. Like every morning to look at like never compare yourself to anyone else. 'cause we're all beautiful. Yeah. And uniquely important and also equal. Yeah. Like everyone is equal in this universe. Every single person, no one is more important than anyone else. We're all equal. Yeah. I truly believe that. And I believe we should live simply so that others may simply live it, which is a saying of Gandhi. So those are like my principles. But I know as a child I was also went through a lot of trauma, so I'm still clearing that as a 46-year-old man, I'm still clearing trauma. I still have a lot of work to do on that.
JenergyYeah. I'm still clearing stuff within my own self too, and I'm continue to, you know, I'll be vulnerable about it. I'll share it about on my Instagram so that I can inspire someone else to be like, oh wow, I don't have to hide this. I can actually go into this. I don't have to hold onto this my whole life. Mm-hmm. And that's like my mission. It's so important.
Bryan The BotanistYou're creating a spa, a space for this and teaching people, you're a teacher, a dance, guidance, you know, a dance. I don't wanna say coach 'cause you're even more than a coach. You're like a dance, spiritual advisor, you know, like, but it's been so cool to be your friend. 'cause I see you doing all these events. I saw you at the Psychedelics for Climate Action event. That one's good. Again, you led, um, a dance and you told us a little bit about that there.
JenergyYeah. And then you
Bryan The Botanistalso DJ'ed it and it made a very beautiful environment.
JenergyYeah, that was one of my favorite talks actually. I was invited to, to speak there and, um, it was one of my favorite talk speeches I've ever had. I'm looking to share Yeah, more of that in different ways. So yeah. I love super honored to be here. Sharing voice. Yeah. Marissa, I
Bryan The Botanistthink she, she's been watching her podcast lately. Oh, a shout out to Marissa. Marissa. Find, yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Sika. She's doing big things and she's gonna come back, she's gonna continue to be a part of the Miami community with Oh, amazing. With the, with the psycho movement down here. So, um, so. Switching gears for a second. Yeah. And we'll come back to some of your passions in a minute,
The Conscious Community in Miami
Bryan The Botanistbut, uh, you got to take a quick tour of sneaker Impact today. Yeah. What did you think of what we're up to here?
JenergyIt's amazing. It's really beautiful to see, you know, such a big production in the sense of how the scale of it, like I saw The Warehouse and there's like tons and tons and tons of. Of extra, you know, clothes and shoes that are getting recycled. And it's great to see that it's being repurposed on a mass scale.
Bryan The BotanistYeah.
JenergyAnd um, I even when I was walking in, I saw people coming and dropping off their old sneakers and stuff. Mm-hmm. And I was like, wow, it's so beautiful to see that there's a space for that. And they're getting put into different things repurposed. And the, the floors with, or the, the way that, you know, the, the, the soles of the shoes get repurposed to make floors and for playgrounds and stuff like this is amazing and we need more of that. Yeah. Rather than these, you know, shoes, old shoes, just sitting in, in a, a landfill. Yep. And never biodegrading that they're being, getting repurposed and putting into something else. I love what you're doing here.
Bryan The BotanistThank you. Yeah. We're passionate. Recyclers and mushrooms are recyclers. That's what
Sneaker Impact and Environmental Initiatives
Bryan The BotanistI talked about at my talk at the cycle was Yeah. We we're just like mushrooms. Sneaker impact in the sense mushrooms break down the wood in the forest. Yeah. And if it wasn't for fungi and mushrooms, like the, the forest would not exist the way they exist like they have developed together. Yeah. And like our earth wouldn't even exist without fungi. And also without plants, like plants are creating our oxygen. Yeah. You know, so we need the forest, we need the prairie, we need the wetland, we need the Everglades. We need Biscay Bay to be healthy. Exactly. You know, and I know going back to you growing up in Miami, like you've seen a lot change here probably since, you know, you were a young girl.
JenergyYeah.
Bryan The BotanistI know. You told me a story the other day when I was hanging out with you 'cause you've been helping me with some of my body issues. Um, is. That you said you grew up selling mangoes. 'cause mangoes are everywhere. So six. I can just imagine the young energy, like we have six mango trees. Trees like got the, the neighborhood mangoes stand or you're making mangoes, smoothies and mango, everything because we have mango trees everywhere in Miami. So yeah.
JenergyI love, that's what I love about Miami, the of the mangoes. What have you
Bryan The Botanistseen, like in terms of the growth of Miami, like, and unfortunately it has led to a lot of, mm-hmm. Development and a lot of development, you know, like Brickle and downtown is, and South Beach are just like now Manhattan in a sense, you know? Yeah. It wasn't like this 20 or 30 years ago as much. It's really. And I mean, how are people making a change that you've seen in the local community?
JenergyYeah, I mean it's just, it's wild to see the, the amount of growth, like of development that's happened and you know, in some ways, in some areas further out west they're, you know, cutting down land and trees in order to develop and make more houses draining Everglades. Yeah. Draining the Everglades. Make more houses for people. Have more and more people coming over here and, you know, in a lot of ways that has. You know, contributed to more pollution. 'cause there's more, more cars on the road, more air pollution, more, you know, things like that. So traffic has
Bryan The Botanistgotten like 10 times worse in the last insane 10 years. Insane.
JenergyYeah. So in that sense, you know, like I feel like there's been some negatives in it, but then in the positives, like I've seen this like conscious community grow so much. There is is also a really big, more like underground conscious community that wants to be above ground. Um, but you know, it's still like. A little bit, not the norm. You know, we still have the norm of people going to clubs, getting really, you know, high and, and drunk. And a lot tourists too. And a lot of tourists, tourists come and
Bryan The Botanistthey do their partying here. Sometimes that, that's like spring
Jenergybreakers and they come and trash the place, the bachelor parties and stuff. And so in that, but then there's a big conscious community of people who want to support humanity and everything I'm talking about here. Sure. And there's a lot of workshops on, you know, a lot of healing workshops, a lot of breath work that helps to also release trauma and tension. Mm-hmm. Usually at the events we'll do some sort of breath work and meditation as well. Lots of yoga classes, lots of different spiritual events, healing, sound healing,
Bryan The Botanistum, like the love burn type community where it's burners, which is all about being self-sufficient, like that Burning Man mentality of. Leave no trace. Mm-hmm. And be self-sufficient. Radical self expression, radical self-expression. Yeah. Yeah. These are amazing. I mean, and honestly, in the last 20 to 25 years, I moved here in 2008 and there was a small yoga community, a small vegan community, or a small mindful, but it's really just like the running community. Like exponentially grown. Yeah. Like the running clubs were all really small back then. Yeah. And I would say even the, the ecstatic dance scene or the, the. Freedom of expression, or just like the kind of people that believe in a new earth, you know, versus the old Earth, which was more about subjugation.
JenergyYeah. Putting
Bryan The Botanistthe earth under our control.
JenergyYeah.
Bryan The BotanistChopping down forest, which is like the story of the Lorax. We don't miss the water till the well runs dry,
Jenergyand the last
Bryan The Botanisttree is chopped down in the story of the Lorax, you know, and Dr. Seuss, you know, they. Decimate every single Lorax tree. Yeah. And then they're so sad because this beautiful resource of theirs is gone.
JenergyYeah.
Bryan The BotanistAnd there's all these people, but then there's no, and similar to the story of Wally, I bring that up a lot on the earth. Yeah. Like Avatar and stuff. Have you seen Wally? Um, actually I haven't. It's okay. I just, I bring it up a lot on the podcast. It's another story about the earth getting consumed by humanity and then. There has to be a change. I mean, they actually leave the planet and come back, but you should watch it. It's about recycling. Yeah. And it's a robot that, you know, okay. Has a big mission. But, um, yeah, yeah, yeah. Back to Miami. I mean, we're in a major city here. Yeah. Major city. Millions of people.
JenergyYeah.
Bryan The BotanistAnd it's a major party playground for tourists. Mm-hmm. Until we get the word out that there's other options, which is why I had you on the podcast today too, is that I want people to know. That inspiring people in the community and interview them. Thank you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I wanted to get to share this. Is there anything you would like to kind of do on the podcast? If you don't feel comfortable, that's fine, but if there's any type of type of self-expression you can lead us through or dance, I'd be happy to put the camera on. Otherwise, if you wanna just explain it to us like. Kind of talk us through it or talk me through it.
JenergyYeah, I mean, we could stand up and do some movement. I'm, I'm definitely down for that. Um, yeah, I just also like, I wanna share that it's, it's really beautiful that there's more. People wanting to share about these things and I just wanna honor acknowledge you. Yeah. And express my gratitude and, and be like, you know, that the more that people share about these people that are a little bit more underground, you know, I'm not sponsored by Coca-Cola. Mm-hmm. You know, there's different, like when big money goes into things like. That's where you see the a, the bigger advertisements Sure. On billboards and stuff. Nike, you're doing it. Nike companies. Yeah. Yeah. Ground grassroots like this, it's a lot different and it, you know, requires people to, you know, see like, wow, I value, I see what you're doing. Like, I wanna put you on and encouraging more people when they see that, like to mm-hmm. To go out and share that. If there's people who have funding to put funding into these kind of smaller grassroots things. Arts, yeah. Than the arts and, and healing events. That can really support because that's where like the ROI, like the way I see ROI return on investment is not only money. Like I, my, my goal is to support collective evolution is to support the environment in healing and humans in healing. So the return on investment for me is seeing that people are healing and people are growing. And when other people have that vision that I also know I'm going to be abundance through that because we are abundance, like our truth is abundance and we get to remove the blockages to that, right? Versus living
Bryan The Botanistin a scarcity mindset.
JenergyRight? And so I see it, it's like. We get to all, like, come together and people who have that vision and mindset, like, let's chat, like let's go into these things. There's so much that we can do when there is like, collaborating, collaborating with each other versus like all
Bryan The Botanisttrying to kind of Yeah. Control or have our own little empire or whatever.
JenergyExactly. Like I'm, I'm big on collaboration, coming together, building something that's really powerful for everyone. Mm-hmm. And, and that, that, again, that ROI being. Yeah, financial, but also environmental, also societal and in a really positive growth way. And I just wanna put that out that like we can start to like, you know, shift our perspective in such a way. I love that. That allows us to really like. Remember that and, and, and embody that and live by that. An
Bryan The BotanistROI on like healing together. Like Yeah. Even if one person, just one person is benefiting in the sense of they're helping their soul to get through this trauma and struggle. You're making a difference.
JenergyYou're making a difference. And that affects, like, even though it's just, it's so, you think it, it looks like it just affects them, but it really affects all of us. Sure. It
Bryan The Botanistaffect, cause then they're gonna. Be better in their community. Yeah. They're gonna do better in the sense of like, it might brighten their mood or it might help them in their dark moments, or it also will help them to have an inspiring word for someone else. Yeah. Like you helping me, I've been in extreme pain. Yeah. You've been helping me sort that out along with other therapists I'm going to. Yeah. And that's helping me to not feel as hopeless sometimes. Yeah. Or feeling, um, angry or feeling like frustrated or grumpy.
JenergyYeah.
Bryan The BotanistYou know, trying to show up more. With the positive attitude. I'm known for the hap, you know, to be happy. Yeah.
JenergyBut
Bryan The Botanistto be happy we have to work on it. It just doesn't come all the time. Yeah. You know, but children I think are sometimes, yeah. In a great spot, but not always, because, you know, our parents really do make a big impact whether or not we're secure, you know? So, yeah. This is why it's important to have, you know, as we grow up, find the community, the tribe that is gonna help you to heal. Yeah. And also just connect. Yeah. You know, and feel. Yeah. Self-acceptance and everyone wants to feel a sense of belonging, I
Jenergythink. Yeah. Yeah. So
Bryan The Botanistthat's really cool. Um, definitely. Is there any other topics you want to dive into? I mean, we have a little bit more time, otherwise I think we can
Jenergydo a little movement practice. Yeah. Guide. Yeah. I can change the camera
Bryan The Botanistup here and we can guide
Jenergysomething. Should I like talk a little bit more? Are we gonna like have a, a moment to talk afterwards or? Well,
Bryan The Botanistwhy don't we end with the movement. Okay. Um, I also like to end with an inspiring message. Yeah. Um, but you've had so many inspirational messages, but I always give the guests an opportunity to leave us with. Another inspirational message, but what are your other passions outside of, um, dance and, you know, uh, healing?
JenergyYeah, I mean, I just, I love being in nature, connecting with
The Importance of Inner Child Healing
Jenergynature. Like I see nature as medicine. We are nature. So any sort of like adventure, hiking. Mm-hmm. Surfing, skating, um, playing. I don't really. Snowboard and ski so much, but those, yes. Uh, river rafting, just anything where I could play in nature and like a big part of this whole movement is like reconnecting with our inner child, which is something I wanted to talk about earlier, but a lot of it is like healing that inner child. That is really, you know, inside that inner wild child that we all have access to. But in so many, you know, for so many of us, we've, that's been suppressed. That's been, you know, oh, you're, you're too old for that. Mm-hmm. You can't, you know, and it's like,
Bryan The Botanistact your age. Oh yeah.
JenergyAct, you know, we're judging like, you shouldn't be playing on the playground. You're too big for that swing. You know, things like that where it's like. Oh, we can actually still connect with our inner child in healthy ways that allows us to come into balance with our old, our wisdom. The wisdom of being an adult and the, the playfulness of being mm-hmm. A and connected with our inner child. And most people you'll see when you see like an older guy who looks young. They're probably still playful. They're, they're probably still joking, laughing, playing, being playful. They're not as rigid and stuck and stiff in their body. Mm-hmm. 'cause that's what allows us to age faster. Mm. And if you're, you know, it's kind of like that, that secret to, to life where it's like, stay playful, stay wild, stay
Bryan The Botanistfree. Childlike wonder. Yeah. Yeah. And just like, 'cause versus like, you know, being like, wow. And like always excited about life and learning every day versus like, yeah. The suited up, you know, I'm gonna pick on the suits. Mm-hmm. Suited up and like, you have to act like, well. Yeah. You know, my investments.
JenergyYeah. And just, yeah, feeling like you're not
Bryan The Botanistbeing like very, like some people are very closed down. They don't want share, which it's okay. That's their thing. I might be an overs share.
JenergyIt's important to just stay connected with our heart and yeah. And that like heart that is also is still in touch with our inner child that has its own, you know, dreams and desires and wishes and goals and. And visions for life. Mm-hmm. You know, oftentimes we've been, uh, conditioned out of that, oh, you gotta, you know, gotta get a job, you gotta do this, you gotta work. You know, find a good job. And you might, that might be in conflict with your, your inner child's dreams and Sure. To know that that inner child is worthy of being heard, heard, working just to pay
Bryan The Botanistthe bills. Right? Yeah.
JenergyLike that inner child's worthy of being heard, it's worthy of accessing all parts of itself mm-hmm. Of all the things that it has ever wanted. And when we trust and believe in ourselves, we can really make magic happen.
Bryan The BotanistI love that. Yeah. Magic is, is definitely part of the earth. You know, it's part of our humanity, our, you know, humankind. So, uh, and you're going on some trips I heard in the next couple of months? Yeah. I'm actually
Jenergygonna do a retreat where we get to access our inner trial play in nature dance and body meditate and heal in North Carolina, in the mountains at a place called Sacred Mountain Waters. It's a expansion, embodiment retreat. Mm-hmm. That's gonna be in July. Um, and I'm also gonna be going to some other festivals and, uh, retreats out there and in California this summer. So I'm, I'm really excited. Yeah.
Bryan The BotanistThat's awesome. Um, okay, well, uh, is there anything else you wanna share in the podcast today? I mean, I'm sure we'll get to connected to you again in the future. Yeah. And we're gonna be doing events together. I know. Uh, I'm gonna come to one of your dance classes as soon as possible, so we're gonna excited for that. We're gonna put all that in the description here. Do you wanna shout out your Instagram and any other ways to connect with you?
JenergyYeah, so the event's called Expansion Ecstatic Dance Miami, that can be found on Instagram expansion under Ecstatic Dance Miami. Okay. And then my personal Instagram is GenY Flow 1 0 8 Gen Energy Flow 1 0 8. Okay. Uh, look up 1 0 8 if you don't already know. It's okay. Powerful number. Yep. And um, my website is ecstatic-flow.com. Oh wow. And people don't know how to spell ecstatic, so I'm just gonna spell it out. E-C-S-T-A-T-I c-flow.com.
Bryan The BotanistAwesome. We'll make sure to get those out and, uh. There's there. I know Miami Mushroom Fest. We wanna have you be a part of that. And that's something I'm passionate about, super excited. So I'm sure we're gonna be sharing more news about, and people following sneaker impact, they're gonna learn about that. Mm-hmm. But, uh, hope to have sneaker impact at some of your events too, if there's opportunity, you know, for us definitely about that. To pair up, I know we, we've done that before for, you know, yoga classes and also dance stuff, you know, so Yeah. Be happy to come out and, you know, if I, people can bring in a pair of footwear, maybe they can. You know, they can, um, they'll see, you know what, we're up to more. Yeah.
JenergyMaybe we could talk about that for the next one. I'd love to hear how that would, would flow.
Bryan The BotanistYeah. Yeah. Awesome. Cool. Okay. Cool guys. So I think we're gonna set up the camera now to do a little dance party in here. Yeah. Okay guys, stick around.
JenergyAwesome. I'm just gonna guide you through a little bit of a mindful movement practice.
Mindful Movement Practice
JenergyThis is not our whole ecstatic dance event, just a little bit of a warmup, taster feel into your body. Just kind of have a little bit of a grounding moment and invite you to stand up and join me. So we'll start with just with our eyes closed, breathing in one hand over the heart, one hand over the belly, and just breathing into both hands, really feeling your energy expanding in your hands. Noticing. Just noticing how the body feels in this moment. Noticing what's alive, noticing what's present, noticing if there's any pain, if there's fluidity. If you feel free just being the witness and not the judge. I taking a few deep breaths into your body. Just having a moment of stillness and awareness. And with that, invite you to open your eyes and bring your arms up. Inhale stretching up and down on the exhale. We'll do that two more times, bringing the energy up and down. One more time up. And down. I'm gonna start with a little bit of some shaking, just loosening up the shoulders, loosening up the hands, the face, the legs, the head. Shaking out the mind, shaking out the thoughts, shaking out the tension, giving a little self a little bounce. I invite you to bring some vibrations and noises into your throat. Ah, just loosening up, getting out of our head, getting into our body. And if you can hear this music here and I invite you to just start with your eyes closed, just feeling into the sounds, how does the waves of the vibrations of the music move through your body? Move you through? I invite you to find, find fluidity in some of the more stagnant and rigid spaces. We invite you to breathe, love into your heart, breathe confidence into your being, at least any judgment of how this might look and come into the felt sense of the body. Letting go of that tension in your shoulders, in your jaw, in your in between, your eyebrows. And finding maybe a little bit of a beat here in your body, finding some creativity in your movement, allowing yourself to move in a unique way, maybe a way you haven't before. When I teach my dance meditation class, I usually guide people through the different elements embodying. Finding. I invite you, since we have just have a few moments to just pick earth, air, water, or fire and see how you can embody that element in your being right now. This song reminds me of water, so I'm gonna choose the water element and embody the waves, embody the ocean. How does water move through me? It helps me to let go. Water is feminine. Water is emotional. Water is fluidity. How does that energy move through me? Fluidity in my spine, fluidity in my body. Getting out of the normal patterns that I typically move in and allowing myself to move in a more unstructured way. Thank you all for joining me in this short, little mindful movement practice. I honor you. Thank you.