Is Booty Shaking and Belly Dance the Ultimate Spiritual Release?

In this blog, I am going to speak about sensual dancing and as I say this, I am referring to dancing from the Sacral Chakra, From the belly and hips, in dances like Brazilian Samba, Belly Dancing, Twerking, and booty shaking.

We will explore sensual dancing, twerking, and belly dancing as a way to Channel Your Inner Goddess.

Sensual dancing is about showing your fullest expression and is a spiritual practice to knowing one’s self. It is a form of Goddess dance, allowing the Goddess to fully move through your sensual, non-linear movement from the hips and into the heart.

Feminine Energy in A Spiritual Practice

I started my spiritual journey in my early twenties, learning about the chakras, and meditating. I started yoga at a very young age.  

But there was something missing in my life and my Spiritual life- which was feminine energy. The energy of fluidity, community, movement, connecting with the earth, and connecting with the body and womb. And most importantly the relationship I had with my internal word, so all of the dark parts within.

I started to realise that my sensuality, sexuality and Spirituality were all connected.

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I was never a “dancer.” I just loved dancing.

When I first started dancing Brazilian Samba I slowly realised how feminine energy was missing in our world.

I was noticing how in yoga and meditation, there was a lot of stillness and strength, and doing things a certain way and although it was great for my body, (I am not denying yoga as a beautiful practice or breathwork) I still felt like something was missing.

I always gravitated to dance because it was where I felt the happiest. But I didn’t know it was a spiritual practice that would allow me to really bridge source with my heart and the Earth energy to my heart. I always saw spirituality as a masculine structure. Where there is alot of silence and stillness involved. 

When you connect with your root, your womb and hips, and you activate energy through through your dance, you not only feel happy but you also awaken your feminine life force. you become the vessel for breathing out love. Your dance and swaying your ships becomes the very way of experiencing life and all of its beauty, and here you start to become magnetic to life. You become the vessel for experiencing life in its fullest.

And this expression becomes the language of your heart because you are in the moment, you are really present and activated. When you are experiencing life in this way, you start to experience life in a different way. Experiencing it’s sweetness.

Embracing Sensual Dancing

We often think of sensuality in a certain way of looking or way of speaking that perpetuates “the feminine” as we know it in society, created by the masculine.

People only look at shaking your booty or sensual dancing as a movement that is just for a man. It’s not by a woman in her power. But when a woman is in her power, she is grounded, she is connected to her heart, she is rooted in her womb space and she is expressing her sensuality, the sensuality shifts from masculine to feminine.

It becomes more about the connection with life itself and your senses.

It is about Slowing down.Knowing the energies of your body and trusting that. 

Allowing my body to move in the way she wants- And not for anyone else but for you.

We haven’t really allowed space for this kind of non linear-movement in the body, and doing it just for us. For our own self- empowerment and celebration of the female body.

When we as women reclaim our sexual power for ourselves and bring the erotic innocence back to it, and we do it for ourselves and no one else, there is so much power in that.  It’s an empowering way to celebrate the female body in all her shapes and forms. 

So much of my learning about myself, about life, about relationships, about my feelings and intuition, has been from my devotion to turning back into my feminine energy, into the sacral chakra, in this frequency of love.

It has been through reclaiming sensuality in a way that feels nurturing and authentic for me. It has been about activating my life force energy.

And dance was and is the ultimate practice for this. This kind of dance I am speaking about encourages you to move the body. Feel the body, Allowing the body to move in the way she wants. 

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I used to get alot of attention when I danced but it wasn’t until I started to harness my sensuality and feminine power in a healthy way, that I was able to guide this erotic power and energy in for the highest goodness of all.

My sensual, erotic dance became my temple, my place, where I could truly connect with the source, with the divine.

Healing through The Goddess Dance of Shaking

Every time I danced Samba, I felt my hips unleash and an ecstatic amount of pleasure flowed through my entire body. At the same time, I even felt the anger, the sadness, the liberation of the wild woman. The good girl was being dissolved. The times when men would sexualise my body, the pain from that was also being alchemised and this time, my dance was for me. 

I was cultivating a deep trust with my body and my inner wisdom. A trust that would lead me to create a life that would lead me to other possibilities.  And there was also this feeling of connection with other women who were dancing with me- we connected through the movement.

Through this dance, I could feel this thread between us, this fire, this life force being ignited and you didn’t have to say a word. We were just in this together, in the expression,  Vibing And feeling- this is why I’m alive. 

This is why I do what today, bringing sacred movement, and embodiment Tantra into my spaces because this liberation, this aliveness, is actually what healed me more than any book or course.

And this is what I desire for all women to feel too.

I believe we women can truly heal when we are heard and seen by other women also going on this path of sexual awakening and feminine activation.

Yes I meditate, and yes I do breathwork, but the frequency we get through dance, music and embodiment transcends anything that the mind and speaking can create because it’s a frequency. It’s a feeling.

There is so much power and healing that we can feel when we shake our hips. This is what I experienced in Brazilian Samba. Even in twerking, shimming and shaking.

As I continued on this journey of embodiment, I realised that shaking is such a primal dance for releasing trauma, somatic blockages and emotions in the body especially in the hips, which is where we hold stored emotions.  

Through bending the knees and anchoring down into the earth with my body and hips, I was connecting with the earth, releasing from the hips, releasing the stored emotions, and at the same time restoring and alchemising the emotions.

So as you can see it is not just a dance, it is a primal dance, a Goddess dance, an ancient practice for healing, releasing and activating- a spiritual practice. 

I believe these feminine dances where we are feeling and allowing the body to lead us from the hips is such a powerful act for us women. This is because Shakti energy is in the hips. 

The Feminine Is Life Force

We women store Shakti, sexual energy, life force, creative energy in the hips. 

We store emotions in the hips so it makes sense that we desire to shake it (whether we know it or not).

When you’re in an emotion of grief we can release it through the hips. 

When we are in ceremony in my 10 week group temple- Feminine Remembrance,I love witnessing women and how they want to move their hips.

Naturally, the body wants to move from the hips. Because the body knows. She’s that wise. She knows that this is the way we heal and feel freedom on the other side of anger, tension and anger.

She knows this is how we celebrate our womanhood. 

I have danced belly dancing also and these dances that really involve and focus on the hips, offer so much healing for us. Because the feminine doesn’t want to just sit and meditate all the time.

The feminine is movement, she is fluid, she is life force.

So when we actually create space for us to just shake and allow the body to really do what she wants to do, the more we open up our body to receive and be in this celebration, in our vitality, in our authentic happiness. And this is also not the same as just going out dancing in a club.

No, this is s sacred offering to your soul. A devotion to your life force energy, your Shakti.

And when we do, we feel freedom and love for ourselves. It’s a feeling I can’t explain. And it is something that is missing more than we think. Because often we are sitting. We are a sitting culture.

So hip shaking, sensual hip movements really help with healing the body, activating your life force energy and tuning into soul purpose. And being in alignment with it. 

I didn’t grow up as a dancer. I was never confident in my body, so dancing Samba changed everything for me. And then when I connected my own sensual dance with Spirituality, a whole new world opened up for me. I opened up to my own sexuality as sacred, a connection with the divine that is so intimate and erotic.

So when i was really shaking my body and moving my hips in this way, I was feeling a liberation in my own sexuality.

I started to feel alive for the first time in forever.

I could feel the energy within me awaken- That serpent-like energy, that moves through from the root, the energy of life force.

Shaking and Twerking for Embodying The Wild Feminine

We are usually told to be straight and perfect. But when we shake and twerk, there is an act of reclamation because there is a sense of- I am free from what society tells me to be or to look like. We are liberated in all senses.

We embracing the very nature of our innocence which is erotic, embodied and wild.

So in this dance, I get to enjoy my body, I get to move in the way that I desire.

And this can be very out of our norm. It can cause some tension or resistance because it feels edgy.

But when we do, it is as though we give ourselves a permission slip to step out of the box and reclaim what makes us feel joy, empowered and overall sexy.

And isn’t that what a spiritual practice is meant to be about? Reclaiming your joy again, reclaiming love for your body and life?

We aren’t meant to be taking life so seriously all the time. 

We can actually have fun while healing. Yes even shaking your ass. 

Dance is an embodied practice. 

Embodiment is a huge part of the Spiritual path. 

When we are in spiritual journey it’s easy to get in our head, and we place a lot of pressure on ourselves to be more self aware- I need to do this and that to be something.  But when we come into embodiment, it is another layer of healing, we embrace and embody the feminine energy of life, of movement, softness, sensual aliveness. .

You can feel the energy when someone is dancing for themselves and not for someone else. You know they are fully immersed in their body. 

You can tell this woman isn’t dancing for validation, she is doing for it Her. 

She is fully immersed in her body, in her energy, enjoying herself in all ways, without allowing her mind to limit her big potential and expression.

And this is exactly why I have created Feminine Remembrance, a 10 week transformative journey to explore your pleasure, bliss and yourself in a deep profound and sensual way.

I wanted to build a sacred space for pleasure practices and community…

A safe, supportive space where you can not only dive deep into blissful pleasure and transformation…But also a space where you can practice sacred feminine self-care.

I wanted you to experience how sensual dance, Tantric practices and somatic rituals are such a beautiful powerful way to connect with your femininity. It is where you remember your wild woman who is here to live so erotically and abundant according to her HEART.

This is about cultivating such a deep LOVING relationship with all of YOU.

If this sounds like the kind of personal journey you’d love to be on…

Then FEMININE REMEMBRANCE: COME HOME TO YOURSELF and the beautiful, soft, sacred space it provides may be the perfect path for you.