“Am I Dreaming?”

This phrase is written on so many pieces of paper taped all over the walls of my bungalow to help me question whether or not I am awake in “real” life, or if I am awake in a dream. (Spiritual nerd alert! This is an exercise to help with lucid dreaming, or being “conscious” in your dreams).

To tell you the truth, for the past five weeks when looking at these pieces of paper, I haven’t really been sure how to answer this enticing question!  My life has been so blissfully and breathtakingly beautiful, I couldn’t tell you if I was awake or if I was living in a perfect little dream!  I have shared the last month and a half with 25 other beautiful and inspiring women – belly dancing, performing Goddess rituals, growing, learning, laughing and so – much – love – that if you hooked me up to a lie detector test and asked me if I am dreaming, I would answer with a happy heart, huge smile and complete certainty that indeed I am!.

You see, this week marks the grand finale of my transformational time in Thailand – spinning, swirling, learning and loving my life as a Mystical Dance Teacher in training.  The course has been intense yet beautiful with countless memories made, friendships formed, dreams coming true and others just beginning ….

I have many stories to share, but as a sneak peek to future posts, I added a video below, highlighting our first dance offering performed almost five weeks ago at the beginning of the course.  Jumping back to present time though – in just two days, we will perform our final dance offering together as a group of goddesses!  (Hopefully your Vishuddha Chakra is working well and you were able to keep track of the leaps in time/space just now. And yes – second nerd alert – I definitely just referenced chakra properties in my blog post ….)

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a video is worth a million!  And for those of you who have followed the blog, you will surely believe me when I say, I will attempt to say them all as there are so many stories to tell and moments of joy to share!  As the Mystical Dance Teacher Training draws to a close, other doors open and new paths begin.  I will be back to blogging and bringing you into my crazy world as a “Born Again Baby” once more!  As always, thank you for reading the blog and following along as I continue dancing down this crazy path called life.

For our first dance offering we performed Sufi whirling, veil dances, a sacred candle offering, a goddess dance using Dakini nails (“Dakini” is a tantric deity described as a female embodiment of enlightened energy), a Bollywood piece and of course …. a little (or a lot) of Shakira inspired hip action. And don’t worry,  for the last dance of the video, we have not gone mad or hysterical and no one was hauled away in a straight jacket.  This spiritual blessing dance coming from Morocco is called the “Guedra,” and involves repetitive head swirls meant to bring dancers into a state of trance or communion with the Divine. So don’t worry mom, we didn’t drink any “spiked” Kool-Aid in the hopes of being transported to another planet on the tail of some comet (because I know that’s what you were thinking!)

Take a peak at the video, behold all the divine beauty of my fellow friends and goddesses and then you may find yourself asking the question as well:  “Am I dreaming?”

And the answer is: Yes you are – we all are!

And what a beautiful dream it is …………….

Enjoy the video below and there will be more to come!