Hi, this is Renee. Thanks for joining me for this practice. The episode you're listening to is recorded segment of a workshop. I gave on embodied astrology tools for surviving and thriving in 2020 in this segment. I'm working with the energy of your honest in Taurus, which I explained a little bit at the beginning of the recording. This is a movement and voice practice that doesn't require anything more than an open mind and space to practice in it would be best if you have room to lie down.Move around a little bit. And if you're in a place where you feel comfortable making strange sounds to loosen up your voice. This practice is a great accompaniment to another hour-long somatic movement practice from the same Workshop called inner alignment that practice. I've Linked In the show notes for this episode. If you're interested. I hope you enjoyed this exploration. Please stay tuned for a brief sponsorship message and I'll be right back with treasure your body. Hey friends. 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Okay, cool, so in the last hour I hope we would have two hours for this but you know time Saturn I want to explore a little bit of of Taurus and what's happening with Taurus Taurus is another Earth sign like Capricorn and it rules the accumulation of matter so not so much Capricorn like Time something build slowly slowly slowly but it's like how do I accumulate? I want to draw it in towards me. It's an attractive element of matter. Taurus has a lot of Association to food, right? We build our bodies through eating and through pleasure like my like that I'm going to try and get it and bring it into towards me or into my life. Taurus is therefore also really associated with money with economies and with wealth, right? Yes, pleasure. I want that going to try and accumulate it. I want to save it. So you're honest is in Taurus for about seven years. It moved into the sign about a year and a half or so ago and it is a very disruptive kind of energy. It's the modern ruler of aquarius. So I talked about Saturn in the fortitude to choose and choose A New Path. Your honest is like the aha moment. That's not necessarily about fortitude. It's like something coming out of the blue and going oh who could do different. So that's Uranian energy. It's like Shake It Up. Let's do something else and it can have like an aha kind of like lightning strikes feeling to it. Okay, so we're going to work a little bit more with a body practice and I again, I hope that all of these body practices that we're doing are accessible and that they're also tools that you can bring with you. So let's spread out into the room. And what I'd like to do is just find a spot find a spot to be. Oh sure. Christine's gonna going to play the which one you're nuts gong Wu this will be great. Okay, so I'm going to go in the middle of the room find a spot to be take up some space. Life insurance, okay. Find a spot to be you can be in any shape that you want. You can sit you can stand you can lie down. And choose one part of your body to begin. I'm going to choose my knees. So just one part of your body. And what I want you to do is bring attention into that part of your body. And let's bring attention a little bit through mobilizing. little movements also touch stimulating your skin may be scratching or rubbing. Then I'd like you to also use your eyes to gaze upon this part of your body. And I want you to start to greet your body as a treasure. And you might even say it you can whisper it you could say it out loud. You could say it in your mind like oh God. My knees are such a treasure. What a treasure and then think about this idea of treasure Treasures are sacred. They're so beautiful. They're precious. They're valuable. And start to move through your body greeting your body like a treasure. And it might feel like a practice that might not feel a hundred percent authentic. Or it might feel deeply deeply real. But just try it out find a part of your body and be with it a little bit and then treasure it. Really love it. This is your treasure. This is your body. Can you regard it with surprise? Like? Oh my God. You're my body. You're my treasure. Like you're just finding it. Oh, I've had it all this time. What a treasure. Can you find new places in your body treasure treasure? As you go through your body, you might remember some of these structural places that hold weight or that hold lineage story and you can even go through the body part into the subtle layers and you can claim them as Treasures. anything that you find treasure Now what's your imagination with your touch with your fault sense? refuse to be owned This is your treasure your body your treasure. No one else owns it. Refuse to be own refuse to be bought and sold. This is your body. It's your treasure claim it. And if there are ideas or messages or practices that are living in certain parts of your body that feel like they're owning you sweep them out. If you want to move around and make gestures move around and make gestures. If there are ways that you're imposing on your treasure from the inside out. Trying to give your treasure away stuffing it somewhere Shake It Out. Breathe It Out I'm gonna invite us to move into more of a shaking practice and for this I need for me to stand up, but you're welcome to to siddur to lie down, too. and when you shake You can shake one part at a time. You can shake the whole thing. You're shaking can be small. It can be big. Let's invite little earthquakes into our bodies. Let's feel the places that are fearful. Rigid and just shake them out. And you can keep loving on your body. You can keep feeling that. It's a treasure. And it's like you just Unearthed this treasure and you're going to shake off the dust. I'm going to shake off the sediment shake it Shake It Off. Okay, you don't have to be any way that's not authentic to you. You don't have to convince anybody. You don't have to uphold anything. Shake It Off This is Your Life humans have been on Earth for three hundred fifty thousand years. The earth is 4.5 billion years old. You might live to a hundred. It doesn't fucking matter. This is your life. This is your life. This is your treasure. You don't mean to live for anybody else's idea of what you need to live for. You get to decide. Expel the voices that are telling you otherwise get those ignorant fools out of your head space out of your belly out of your heart. How do your crying get him out? This is your treasure find pleasure in your body. Where is a place in your body? That feels pleasurable. Let the pleasure expands so feel good to shake out. Shake it out it feel good to breathe in breathe in so if he'll go to Resource find resource is your treasure. It's your pleasure. Sick sick sick. Sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick. Sick sick. Sick. Sick. Sick. Sick. Sick. Sick. Sick. Sick. Sick. Sick. Sick. Sick. Sick. Sick. Sick. Sick. Sick. Sick. Sick. Sick. Sick sick sick, sick find one place in your body that you hold insecurity feeling like you're not enough feeling like you should be something else. I Shake It Out fill yourself with breath. How's your breathing you say this is my treasure this part of your body treasure. Okay. Now the insecurities shake out the fears. Goodbye. Six-six-six 666 666 engine last 30 seconds get it out. Get him out. Okay, pause. Notice the tingling notice the space. Feel your breath. We have trouble with change when we're excited for it. And we're scared of it when change is coming, please Shake It Out. shaking let's start to walk again through the room. Hey, we're going to work with some sound sounding. It's okay. The gongs can assist. Okay, so we're working with sounds of the vowels a e-i-e-i-o-e-o you start to let them come out the sounds of the vowels. Explore them at your own pace and your own way a yeah find different pitches different registers and let your face really stretch around the sounds. Hey I owe you. Vowel sounds and we'll start to have conversations with each other purely through the vowel sounds. I would like you to be an instigator try and instigate something with the vowel sounds hey. Hey, hey EIEIO Now, let's try and harmonize with each other. So like we're chanting own but we're going to do just the vowel sounds. Okay, it can be any vowel sound is just rolling. Keep going. Keep going. Keep sounding just stop walking. Close your eyes and listen. Notice how you feel and your inner body? Notice the sensation in your heart and in your head. Where we are, let's just open eyes and step into a circle. So all year long by sign Taurus is assisting Capricorn. We're moving out of a Trine Jupiter and the Sun and trying to Uranus receiving their helpful influence. But all year long just by sign. What's happening in Earth is we're getting assisted to do this work that we're doing in Capricorn to do the transformational work when we allow change in. When we find ways to Resource ourselves with pleasure. Taurus rules the body you're on a school's Awakening. So we want to think about this Transit as an Awakening potential Awakening the body through pleasure. This is our Birthright pleasure. All right, it's a beautiful Earth. We live on beautiful bodies. We inhabit Taurus rules the the voice and the throat the lower jaw and the throat chakra when we give voice to something. We make it real right when we say like, I'm going to get a snack very tourist thing to say right then and get up we walk over we get a snack. When you say something you make it real so we want to open our throat chakras with your honest and Taurus. We want to let ha this starts to spread out and stretch out. So all that work. We're doing with the massage at the earlier portion that's working with the rigidity in the structures that Capricorn rules right The Joint spaces, but then especially working up around the mouth and the throat can really help us open the throat chakra Let The Voice. Come out if you're feeling stressed or tense go lock yourself in the bathroom and do the vowel sounds for five minutes and it'll help you if you get a friend on board and you have a conversation and vowel sounds that's even better than it'll probably make you smile. Okay? Little that's a quick quick dip into Taurus.
This episode is a recorded segment of a workshop I gave on Embodied Astrology tools for surviving and thriving in 2020. In this segment I’m working with the energy of Uranus in Taurus, which I’ll explain a little bit at the beginning of the recording. This is a movement and voice practice that doesn’t require anything more than an open mind and space to practice in. It would be best if you have room to life down and move around a little bit and if you’re in a place where you feel comfortable making strange sounds to loosen your voice. This practice is a great accompaniment to another, hour-long somatic movement practice from the same workshop called Inner Alignment. You can find that practice by clicking here. I hope you enjoy this exploration! If this work is a benefit to you, please support it to continue and leave a tip! 