Last week I started something new: Chakra Dance training.

I can already hear you “What the hell is chakra dance and what is she doing now?”
Fair question.

If you’ve followed me for a while, you’ll know that I’m constantly exploring wellbeing modalities — not just for the sake of offering them, but to experience them myself. Because I have one rule when it comes to the work I share: if it doesn’t serve me, I won’t offer it to you.

As a space holder, wellbeing coach, and spiritual guide my job is to hold space for others. To guide, to lift, to support. But that work doesn’t happen in a vacuum. If I don’t tend to my own body, energy, and soul? I leak. Energy, light, clarity, all of it.

So when Chakra Dance re-entered my world, I listened. It is very easy for us, as the care providers, to leak our energy, leak our resources and leak our light as we go about healing and helping others.

I’d done it once years ago and loved it. I loved it. I already know I love to dance, and move my body and play. It spoke to me. And as someone who used to dance her way through nights out in her 20s (mostly fuelled by vodka, high heels, and house music), I’d been quietly missing the version of dance that made me feel alive without the hangover or the glitter stuck in strange places.

This felt like a homecoming.

So I decided to do a chakra dance course. This offering will help me facilitate awakening and invigorating dances for all for all the people out there like me who love to dance, but who no longer want to do it with a belly full of alcohol, high heels and into the early hours of the morning.

Spiritually, dance is an amazing way to connect to yourself, to your spirit and to the spirit guides that are around us guiding us constantly.

Step one was about us learning about the Base Chakra. This is a space I already know lots about with my work with Reiki but to interpret it and understand how it needs to be strengthened and supported through dance was a whole other experience.

So we danced to bring the Base Chakra into alignment.
The music was deep and earthy. Heavy base beats. A rhythm that sat low in the body.
My hips softened. My shoulders swayed. My head began to rock.

And then something happened.

My body took over.

My arms moved like trunks. My body swayed like the elephant that appeared in my visualisation.
There was no choreography, just instinct. Flow. Power. Presence.

When we think about our Base Chakra (at the base of our spine) knowing that it's the lower chakra closest to our feet, closest to the earth. It connects us back into nature. You might have even heard the term “Grounding”. Our base chakra is really imperative that it holds a level of grounding. If the Base Chakra is not grounded you will notice that you might feel panicky, anxious, flighty, not able to make a decision, not able to commit to anything, consistently never finishing a task. You might be haphazard, quick to emotion and quick to quit.

It's like an instability that exists in your core. So you can see where the value in working on your grounded chakra -The base chakra (which is the colour of red).

While doing this course we were asked to connect your spirit animals that connect us back to the land and nature. For a long time, my spirit animal has been a large Hare with big, tall ears, he has appeared in many of my meditations. I have drawn him, I have danced with him, and he's led me down some interesting paths of self-awareness.

However, with this particular session last week, I was greeted by a big grey Wolf. My protector, he was my power animal. He was by my side walking with me. He wasn't aggressive or in stealth mode or on the hunt. He was proud and noble and brave - Some of those things that I had been lacking a little bit lately, as I flipped between “What am I doing. How I am doing it, am I taking on too much? Am I giving my family enough time. I haven't seen my friends in ages. Blah La La La….. it all goes on and on and on.

This gray wolf greeted me in a field as my power animal - that is to show me what I need to invoke. I was then asked to call in my animal guide. Moments later, my animal guide appeared a gentle elephant and her calf. She didn’t speak. She didn’t need to. She simply walked, and invited me to follow.

Both of these animals reminded me of something important:

the power of solitude, and the beauty of the herd.

The one thing I noticed about both of these animals that came into my fruition, is the balance between how well they do alone and how well they do herd. Helping to guide me to the realisation of the importance of balancing both. That's probably why I haven't been able to catch up with as many people as I want to. Because as I grow and unfold and release layers of myself and my old ways and my old habits, I must go within - I must go quiet and I must shut down the external noise that appears around me.

The meditation guided us to move. The music was heavy, strong with a big base beat. As I relaxed my hips started moving, and my shoulder started swaying, in my head started rocking.

And then these movements just came out of my body. At first soft and nurturing, supple almost - then stronger, bolder, braver. I flap my arms around in front of me and I realised I was dancing the way I imagined the elephant might dance with its trunk swaying around before her. This is just what came from me, this wasn't a constructed choreographed dance and movement. This was an organic flow that my body just did.

As always, through my meditation practise, I sit in the view of my Spirit Self. High above watching the movements of human Gayle and what she is doing, observing, recognizing, trying not to analyze as best that I can. Just being in the moment seeing the beauty of all that I am. Seeing how special I am.

What is the difference between egotistical special and self-awareness special? Well, while I acknowledge I am special. What I do equally acknowledge is that I am NO more special than anybody else. And that's the difference in practicing gratitude and being humble.

What This Has to Do With You

I’m not sharing this because I think everyone needs to go sign up for a chakra dance course (though when I’m certified, you are absolutely invited to dance with me!).

I’m sharing this because we all need ways to come home to ourselves.

For you, maybe it’s dance.
Maybe it’s meditation.
Maybe it’s The Soul Care Healing Method, where we unpack these layers gently, over time, in a way that brings your nervous system, your spirit, and your human self into actual harmony.

Maybe it’s also the message I explore in my book manuscript that healing doesn’t have to be quiet or still. It can move. It can shake. It can breathe through your body like a drumbeat. You’ll see more about that soon.

But until then, just know this:

Your body remembers how to come home.
Your spirit remembers what it feels like to feel safe.
You don’t need to choreograph your healing. You just need to show up.

And if you need somewhere to start?

→ The Soul Care Healing Method is open now
It's not a dance class, but it is a rhythm you’ll return to again and again.
It’s grounded. It’s personal. And it’s waiting for you.

Chakra Dance is a beautiful awakening and return back to the divine and primal part of yourself. It is sensual. It is sexy. It is beautiful. It is also ugly and can be aggressive and dark.

Your body will do what it needs to in that moment. And for that we shall not judge, we just witness

With love and a very wobbly shoulder shimmy.

Gayle x