A great deal of our history has been Christian and today we still live in a very Christian world – and perhaps too its right that we live in a Christian world still because Jesus is a loving positive force in the world responsible for bringing healing and reconsolidation to our world both collectively and individually. The church is often a bastian of sacredness, decency and refuge in a a challenging world.

This is not to say the church itself doesnt make mistakes because it does – but Christ remains a positive force of hope and a light in the darkness in the world today.

One of the mistakes of the church has perhaps been that its been overly patriarchal. As we know in the past women had next to no rights and were at best seen as property passed from father to husband – and it was like that in the times of Jesus too. However, Jesus was quite radical in that he had female disciples such as Mary Magdalene and the Myrrhophores – or the Holy Myrrh Bearers. These women were given radical respect and sacred responsibility. When Jesus resurrected it was to these women, the Holy Myrrh Bearers he first revealed Himself as they came to tend his body. So why then over the years has the church portrayed women in such a bad and lowly light? She has been praised as mother, but often strong women were cast as witches, burnt at the stake or her gifts marginalised instead of being celebrated. For a long time women werent allowed to be Priests, God was wholly male and the religion primarily a male affair with women to be silent in submission. Mary Magdalene Christs own disciple was cast as a whore and there is NO books in the Bible authored by her and her voice has been excluded from the gospel message.

So this is the history women face when they go to church, and there are many Patriarchial leaders still found in the church today who would supress woman or only allow her to be celebrated if she becomes “like a man” – one of the guys in the church with her femininity left out. Femininity to the church often polarises between 2 extremes of the Holy Mother of Jesus – Mary or the seductress with the apple in the garden of eden, the whole reason the world is in a mess. Church Archetypes for women include Mother, seductress, prostitute, whore, witch etc which doesnt leave much scope for feminine growth outside having and raising children and being a chaste wife to a powerful man to nulify being thought of as a prositute or witch

I practise something called Chakradance, which is a dance movement therapy which is based on Jungian psychology, chakra resonant music, dance and mandala art – and in these movement therapy spritiual practise the feminine is finally celebrated and healed from these past patriarchial influences. Yes she is celebrated as Sacred Mother in the base chakra but theres so much more to the feminine, embodied in our women. In the sacral chakra we dance the abundant empress where the woman is able to find her joy and pleasure in life – empress over her life, business and household she finds pleasure in living and doing things she enjoys – In the solar plexus chakra shes the warrior goddess – so much in our lives requires we fight for what we deserve and this is so true especially for women, where she has to fight for her right to thrive in the backdrop of patriarchy. In the Heart chakra – shes the loving healer, many women do so much healing work in the communties, not just healing the sick but bring people and famillies together and healing communities and lives that way. In the Throat chakra shes the Wild Creatix – women when living their best life are fundamentally creative, it may not just be in art, poetry dance or cooking but in other areas too deign or how they run their business. In the third eye chakra shes the awakened dreamer – this is where she dreams and creates her life how she wants it to be, including the lives of those around her – women have always been asscoiated with fate, wheras here she literally dreams the world into being. In the Crown chakra shes the Embodied Priestess – in the past if you were a priestess and a woman you were just called a witch and destroyed, but times are changing – there are now more embodied Priestesses in their community than ever before – bringing the sacred, the spiritual and divine to their communities – alleviating fear of death and making the sacred available to everyone.

POSITIVE FEMALE ARCHETYPES

So the positive female archetypes include:

Sacred Mother

Abundant Empress

Warrior Goddess

Loving Healer

Wild Creatrix

Awakened Dreamer

Embodied Priestess

You can experience all these and more on my upcoming course Chakradance – Heal Your Life (9 weeks immersion) – or my short one week long – chakradance archetypes course working on a specific archetype or issue https://swan-on-the-sea-wellness.teachable.com/

Lets help heal the feminine together and heal our lives at the same time – when the feminine rises – we all rise with her.

Its been a long time since I posted anything on this site but I have been busy – not only have I been working on healing and managing my schizophrenia but I have been gathering the tools and resources to aid others with their lifes challenges too.

A long time back I mentioned Chakradance as a spiritual therapeutic practise I have practised to bring well being and healing to myself, my life and my world and I have now finally completed the training to be a facillitator and bring healing to the lives of others too through this beautiful modality.

I have a business in the works – Swan on the Sea Wellness where I will be offering chakradance ecourses (chakradance, dance movement therapy you can do in the comfort of your own home and sacred space), along with mental health mentoring and therapeutic soul arts courses.

I want to offer something of the kind of mental health service and caring I wish I had received when I was going through my crisis – I already know the arts is SO beautiful and beneficial for shifting negative states and creating a more lovely positive world. However, I also include Chakradance in this where it combines free movement dance where you can dance like nobody is watching, with really lovely spiritual ethereal guided meditations, with specialised funky music which resonates with the chakras, with creating a beautiful mandala representing the energy of your dance experience. I literally practised this when I was in hospital and surrounded by very depressing scenes, till I transformed the hospital into a dance floor where I dance in an imaginary rainforest surrounded by all my ancestors and well wishers. It really makes an an amazing transformational experience and now Im going to be running a business offering it to the world!

My website is being created as we speak and over the next few months I will be recording the videos and MP3’s to go with the courses. I wrote a poem called Swan on the Sea about my journey and mission statement to aid my soul clients wherever they may be in the world, especially those suffering from mental ill health to help them live the life they want to live, a life of passion and purpose through chakradance dance movement therapy

Swan on the Sea Business name comes from the town I live in Swansea as a city of potential and my poem I wrote about my mission. I painted a picture of a swan on the sea as the spirit of my town but it also the spirit of my business

Watch this space – cant wait to get started. As soon as the website is ready, I will post the website and I aim to get started with the online courses between February and May 2023

Swan on the Sea

I am sailing, sailing on the back of my swan on the sea

The lake ripples and breaks in hues beautiful and silvery

By the light of the moon dancing

With deep purple sky stars glancing

And shooting through the sky

I dip in the waters cold and I try

To keep afloat amid my dreams

A crystal pyramid beacons it seems

To swallow me up as I enter its ice walls

To ignite my psychic centre and it calls

Me to dream with passion, imagination my ally

Like the beautiful white bird that takes me to fly

Home with white feathers in my hand

As I return safely to the land

Through the doors of perception I see

To earthy roost my town called Swansea.

Now in everyday mundane living

That wonderous holy bird I will be giving

A place of honour in my business name

To fulfill my calling to the people

Who live near and far by every dale and steeple

For healing movement chakradance

Graceful inner work and trance

To heal all wounds with guided journeys

To beautiful places of vision keys

To find our true inner shining to be

Like a radiant swan swimming on the sea

Many years lost at sea spent I

Till I learnt the art of dreaming to see

And create to bring forth within me the trance

A vision of a future where I could dance

My way back home over the silvery waves

With my swan and grey blue cat who gave

Me companionship with many mentors

Who appeared through the fog to centre

My purpose when the waves me tossed

So many faces in the depths totems

And helpful guides the past the present tokens

And future swept before me now as I gently sail

No longer in the tempest storm but in waters where I cannot fail

Sailing sailing on the ocean grand

Very soon I will reach the land

Of sand and solid rock and ore

Where I will teach others of my time in awe

Those also lost at sea, I will reach them with my swan boat

And show them they too can dance dream and float

I love my time on the land

Where I speak to my son and take his hand

But my life now belongs to the oceans depths

And helping others there like a baby’s first steps

So many years lost at sea spent I

But now I toil purposefully till I die