Aligning to love

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Weekday classes are back on commencing Tuesday 13th June; 11.45 to 12.45 @ Bull Creek Community Centre.

Personal Development Classes with a spiritual focus, together with some simple relaxation meditation tools.

We will look at topics such as boundaries, self love, self-esteem, energetic hygiene, simple breathing techniques, and how to bring yourself to your relationships (including your relationship with self) with more awareness, kindness and non judgement.

Contact Terrie on 0419 133 673 or email [email protected] for more information.

Personal Development Classes with a spiritual focus, together with some simple relaxation meditation tools.

This week we will be focusing on ways to help us become more present in each moment.

Classes are held each Wednesday evening 7.00 to 8.15pm in East Victoria Park.

Anyone wishing to come along, please contact me on 0419 133 673.

Have a lovely week 🌻

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Hello,

I’m sorry it’s been a while since I’ve written anything here at Aligning to Love, however I am back now and look forward to connecting regularly again.

I am commencing “Aligning to Love” – Personal / Spiritual Development / Meditation classes on Tuesday mornings in Perth.

11.45 to 12.45
Bull Creek Community Centre
Cnr. Leichhardt & Hassell Cres, Bull Creek (in the room across the foyer from the library)

Tools & Resources that will help with grounding:

• Self Acceptance, Gratitude, Uniqueness, Self-Determination, belonging, worthiness
• Simple meditations to help relax and slow down, and become more present with self and our environment.

Each class will have a topic, and we will start by settling in with a simple meditation. There will be discussions and reflection, and we will leave with something simple to practice during the week; it could be as simple as remembering to breathe.

This is not a rushed process, there is no quick fix, yet there will be a deeper appreciation for self, for all you are, the good stuff and the banged-up parts of self that need to be healed and loved. And love is the key ingredient here.

Love is the key ingredient here.

To come along to weekly classes, please contact Terrie on 0419 133 673 or email: [email protected]

Much love,
Terrie

I was reflecting on the last couple of years and I found this sharing which I wrote after the first big lock down at the beginning of COVID. The sharing is still very relevant and thought it may be helpful to share again on this page.

Happy New Year everyone. May 2022 be one of kindness and love for self and others.

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As we emerge from the cocoon of isolation, I have been pondering about how I have changed, and what the new looks like. What would I like to bring forward into the new, and what needs to be left behind?

In the busy worlds we live in, there often isn’t time to reflect inwards. We hop on the wheel of life and we keep moving, in a cycle of normality, and unless something disrupts that cycle, we often just keep moving.

It’s fair to say that COVID-19 has disrupted our lives.
As a Dance Studio Owner I made the decision fairly quickly to press “pause” on our dance classes. My life was completely disrupted, and it felt like my whole world was literally being ripped out from under me. The cycles of emotions were intense, and I came to realise just how much my self-worth was tied up with “what I do” (being a Dance Teacher), rather than “who I am”, and the disentangling process began.

Encouraging young dancers to build self-esteem is a foundational part of my teaching philosophy, and worthiness is a pillar of self-esteem. If I am not modelling self-worth, I am not doing my job well. I wanted to come out of isolation with a greater sense of who I am. A person who is free from craving external wants and needs to feel fulfilled. You see, you can’t obtain worthiness from outside of self. Each time we look for validation outside of self, piece by piece, we invalidate our own self-worth. If all our worth is tied up with what we do, we are not valuing the unique person that we are. And it’s a fine balance. We build our self-esteem by enhancing resilience, stretching ourselves outside of our comfort zones, and these achievements help establish our sense of self.
Yet when we throw our whole heart and soul into what we do, we can get lost in what we are doing rather than who we are being. Sometimes we forget to come up for air, and we don’t realise just how busy our lives are. The habit of being “busy doing things” can also mask things about ourselves that we just don’t want to face. Such as looking for validation from outside of ourselves by being attached to other people’s opinions of us, wanting to please others, wanting to be liked, low self-worth, lack of self-love.

How do I know this… I lived this.

I used dance as a way to cope. From a young child, if anything went wrong in my life, there was always “dance” to help me feel better, it was my rock, my coping mechanism, and my saviour in hard times. As I began to work on my personal and spiritual growth, it became apparent there was a whole lotta stuff hiding under those coping mechanisms. Feelings that were denied because at the time I wasn’t capable of dealing with them. And that’s life. At the time, that was all I was capable of. Now I am capable of more. I am more spiritually mature, and with the help of a mentor and coach, I learned how to hold a space for these denied parts, to be healed and loved.

The more I became capable of loving and nurturing myself, the less I needed to rely on dance to help me through. And it’s an ongoing journey, there is no finish line to get over, there is only life and how we can turn our life into love. The more we grow and become stronger at supporting ourselves, more of the denied parts are able to show up, because we become ready to heal them.

So COVID-19 disrupted me even more, and I was capable of seeing how attached I still was to my business and how much my worth was tied up with the business. I could see this by my reactions to my life, and my love, being “taken away from me”. It was a red flag and I knew I had to explore these feelings to the depth that I was capable.

I don’t have it all worked out yet, but I do know there is so much more to me than what I do every day, and making time to reflect inward is an important step to disrupt the busyness of life.
Words of wisdom from a wise friend; every curse can become a blessing, and every blessing can become a curse. The blessing is I can now move into the new with more self-worth. It’s a blessing to model self-love and self-worth for the students, and the people who touch my life.

I don’t know about you, but sometimes l find that life can be a little overwhelming. There’s so much to do, not enough time, people needing my attention, and in reality I would just like to stay home, drink tea and switch off.

I’d like to share some strategies that help me when I feel like this, because I don’t always feel this way.

In the moments when I want to pull the covers over my head and stay in bed, I first start by breathing (and I have shared about breathing in previous posts), which helps to settle me and bring me back to a calmer space. I also know that the spirit of who I am isn’t scared or overwhelmed, it’s the parts of me here on the ground that struggle. So, I need to expand into my spiritual self, the greater self, and breathing into my physical body, through my heart and expanding my breath beyond my physical self really helps me to connect into that greater self. This practice is a simple strategy and part of my self-care routine. It’s the ABC’s; aligning, breathing and centring, and being present.

There is no growth in being comfortable. When we are outside of our comfort zones, we will feel stretched, we will feel like we can’t do things (and we will want to stay in bed). We are learning something new, expanding into more greatness, more resilience and this is part of life here on planet earth. When life feels uncomfortable, it’s ok, you can handle it, keep things simple, breath and take time to listen to the heart whispers, what is really going on inside? It can also be an exciting time of finding out how capable you really are, it just depends on which lens you look through.

If you would to experience some of these simple strategies, join me at noon every Friday in East Victoria Park, Perth. Contact me on 0419 133 673 for more details. 😊