As within, so without
the work you do this new moon travels through your lineage and your community like a ripple of light
How are you doing? What Has Been Bringing You JOY so far in August and what have you been journeying? If you feel called to reply, I would love to hear from you!
This new moon falls on Wednesday 12th August and is in Leo. It is also a total solar eclipse, which makes this lunation super potent! So this month I am theming the Dream Journal deep dives around generational healing…
August, in the 13 moons work of Jamie Sams, belongs to She Who Heals, the Clan Mother whose colour is blue…and what better a month to be completing my Rolfing training (I did it and am officially graduated!!!) and to be cleansing…
Almost as soon as we got back to the UK, Ahmad and I headed up North, and I we are currently landing from 10 days with the wonderful Alva, one of my teachers.
So I have been completely offline reading lots of books around what we inherit and journeying what we inherited and diving deeper into fascia: the connective web of tissue that runs through every muscle, organ and bone, meaning nothing in the body is ever truly isolated (as it sometimes feels in Western medicine), and just like us when we step out of illusion and in to joy: we stop being separate and connect to community through creativity and heart.
How profound and powerful is it that if we touch one place on the body, through that unbroken web of fascia, we are touching everywhere else… as a metaphor to our own creativity and how that ripples out into the world like a butterfly effect?
You can find some of the books I have been enjoying on the cleanse this month here:
It Didn’t Start With You: How inherited family trauma shapes who we are and how to end the cycle
Beyond Inheritance: Our Ever-Mutating Cells and a New Understanding of Health
Another cool aspect of fascia work is scar work, which I have been practising on my own scars: treating a scar on my face and the foot injury that happened on the 31st July-1st August 2019, which left deep deep tissue scarring and fear in my body. That went on to affect my foot, my knee, my adductors, my pelvic floor, and even my ascending colon… so its been powerful to see the scar finally fading 7 years later!
I mentioned in my last newsletter (that was also amazing and feels connected to the theme of this month) that My Mum has scarring, from an entirely different injury, and an entirely different story, and yet, when we both had Rolfing with the same person on the same day last month, the same pattern: foot, knee, adductors, pelvic floor, and ascending colon showed up!
It’s “fascia”nating to me that my Mum and I showed up with such similar patterns in that Rolfing session, and it really does make me wonder about ancestral trauma being passed down, inherited in our body and how we hold ourselves…
I’ve spoken before about the work we do now healing backwards through our lineage and forwards for what comes after us…
Genius Realignment: one of the main master focuses on my course Goddxx GLOW is a powerful way to do this, as is fascia work, because we are literally re-patterning the body.
So on that theme, here are some journal invitations for answering in innocence this new moon.
Grab your Journal to JOY, let your intuition answer without judgement and dive in… ooh and here is the playlist that I am using this month (Spotify version):
✨ What is one inherited pattern in your family story: a held pattern in the body, or a belief or story, that you would love to release?
✨ Where in your body do you notice those holding patterns or tension? Drop in to those body parts and ask them to speak: are they yours? Are they memories? What do they want you to know?
✨ Imagine going back to these memories and speaking to each and every person involved in that memory: what would you like to say from your highest? What is obvious to you from this higher perspective that maybe you couldn’t see back then? What would the people involve say from their hghest? Imagine in having this conversation that you are clearing the energy… then imagine it literally clearing… blasting away the held or stuck energy in the body: you may wish to imagine light or one of those leaf blowers blasting and cleaning the energy there… or you may wish to stretch and unwind through movement. If you were to release this pattern right now, who else in your line, forwards and backwards, might that clearing touch?
As you sit with these journal prompts under this potent new moon, know that whatever you release from your body, whatever pattern you clear doesn’t stop with you: the work you do travels through your lineage and your community like a ripple of light. ✨
Join the Magic
Embodied Alchemy: Is open for the September cohort, full of beautiful individuals alchemising their shit, turning the emotions that felt heavy into fuel for their creative fire. Sign up for the course, or for the free talk here: https://goddxxpath.com/embodied-alchemy
Rolfing: I will be holding a Rolfing/Bodywork pop up in central London (a really stunning location in Hyde Park at The Intercontinental Hotel in their beautiful spa) for the month of October… thereafter my sessions will be available abroad only! Watch this space! So if you want to experience the magic before then… Get one while it lasts! Sessions are £150, but I will releasing 66 sessions at £66 for dancers and this community on a first come first serve basis… DM me for the passcode! Read more about the bodywork I offer here: https://goddxxpath.com/bodywork
JOY Dream Journal: I’m building a new physical journal, JOY Dream Journal: Moon, Unlearning & Imagination, a companion to Journal to JOY for the lunar cycle, dreams, and sleep, which I hope to publish this September, and I’ll share more as it comes together.
Biggest loves,
Ella xxx
