How dancing can heal your chakras
I believe everything we need, and everything we desire, can come from the wisdom of our body. By inviting the wisdom of our body – aka our inner intelligence – to lead the way, our whole life can become more empowered.
Every movement, every breath, and every beat of our heart is a doorway into greater freedom, harmony, and empowerment. When we allow ourselves to dance, not just for fun or exercise, but as a sacred act of alchemy, we can awaken our infinite intelligence within.
In this way, dance can become an alchemical dose of energy medicine for ourselves and for the planet. Here’s how.
DISCOVERING DANCE AS MEDICINE: WORKING WITH KUNDALINI ENERGY
Sixteen years ago, in 2009, I discovered the ecstatic embodiment and transformational alchemy practice of Kundalini Dance™.
I was already studying chakras back then, using energy healing, foods, colours, and crystals to support a return to harmony and balance. Yet hearing about “dancing through the chakras,” “transformational dance,” or “inner alchemy” was very new to me. So I decided to dive in and discover how dance could be a gateway of transformation and chakra healing.
I knew it was a huge edge for me, but I was open and willing to take a new leap in life. I did not consider myself a dancer at that time, but I was curious about new healing modalities, exploring kundalini energy, and craving transformation and life redirection.
At that time, I was moving through grief, career transition, and big life changes, and my body felt like it was breaking down on me. My first session of Kundalini Dance opened my eyes to the power of dance as medicine. I actually disliked that first session because it confronted my self-identity. Yet, I also loved it at the same time because I felt more free, more powerful, and full of possibility for a better future! So I signed up and took myself on an experiment of inner exploration.
THE CHAKRA DANCE PRACTICE: MOVING ENERGY THROUGH THE BODY
With each dance, we learned that Kundalini Dance was an alchemical art and self-directed healing modality. This form of chakra healing through movement worked with a simple map: connecting and directing energy from the earth to our body, up to our heart, then up to the cosmos. Then, we would receive and recalibrate the energy back to our heart and down into the body.
We rooted ourselves into the earth to feel supported and deeply connected to the planet, and then cultivated the living life-force energy inside our body to awaken our wisdom and remember our true nature.
An important part of the alchemical practice was to face our shadow self for a few songs, and to ultimately bring everything into the energy field of the heart, opening to the cosmos and to higher consciousness.
Tapping into the ‘gold’ above connected us to a life-force bigger than ourselves. It connected us to our souls, and to the divine energies available to us. Each dance was designed to hold the space of transformation, loving liberation, and of self-directed healing and empowerment.
THE POWER OF DANCE TO RELEASE FEAR AND RECLAIM YOUR POWER
The beauty of this chakra healing dance practice is that it meets the dancer wherever they are in life. Everyone experiences challenges and limiting beliefs, and to have the opportunity to bring them to the dance floor is life-changing. It means we can bring our sadness, anger, confusion, and fear to meet the presence of our breath and body’s wisdom.
In dance, we can give ourselves permission to feel this wisdom flow through and to no longer try to contain it, shun it, or change it. Instead, we can embrace it with our presence and the power of our heart.
To be the alchemist of our life means raising everything we have within us to the power of love itself. The vibration of our heart can mend, heal, and transform anything dense into light, change darkness into luminous colour, and shift lack or scarcity into the richness and vastness of wisdom within.
Each dance is transformational and unique. The map of moving alchemical energy may be the same, but the themes change, the music shifts, the chakra wisdom evolves. The body moves differently, and our emotional presence flows to healing, rebalancing, and re-coding us from the inside out.
Showing up on the dance floor is an opportunity to let go and purify what feels heavy in life. We learn how to unwind the illusions and lies of our inner critic and perfectionist self. We can break free from any shackles or limitations that keep us constrained, constricted, and playing small in life. We can remove any masks we wear and unleash our authentic creative expression.
In this way, each dance is an invitation to liberate, transform, and inspire ourselves.
To dance in ways that feel free and expansive.
To listen to the wisdom of the body and to take up space within ourselves, which is how we move through the world.
To trust that our body and heart know how to open, surrender, and reclaim our power in the places where we may have given it away.
To truly know that our body is the wisest of the wise and knows how to heal, regenerate, and reprogram.
To allow our voice, our expression, and our soul gifts to be a unique channel of truth, authentic nature, and radiance that only we hold.
DANCE AS AN INVITATION TO EMBODY YOUR INNER WISDOM
Our embodied wisdom truly lives within. It doesn’t come from a concept, a book, or a philosophy. It comes from every cell of our body and how we express and walk through the world.
The more we can embrace our body as wise, the more each dance becomes like a living transmission of energy, light, and consciousness that we are,remembering as truth.
In Kundalini Dance, each session is a space of honoring all parts of us. Our shadow and our light. Our limitations and our blessings. Our body and our divine design. So we can know ourselves as whole, holy, and living in full spectrum essence.
And the more we attune to the vibration of love as pure living energy within, the more we embrace ourselves on a cellular and energetic level, and of course the more we can embrace each other too. The more harmony we create inside of ourselves, the more we can bring to our relationships, our communities, and to the whole world as we dance through life.
I believe the true ROI of life, our Ripple of Impact, is love. Being more in love with our inner nature means we can be more in love with all of life – and that can truly change everything.
I invite you to take a few loving breaths now. Breathing in through your nose, and out through your mouth.
Feel the power of your breath as living life-force.
Feel the power of your heart and the love that resides within.
Your body is a gateway of deeper understanding. Your heart holds the key.
If movement and dance is calling you back to your innate intelligence and your embodied divine design, I hope to see you on the dance floor!
ABOUT MARTINE
Martine Kleissen is a Holistic Healing Arts Practitioner, Ceremonialist, and Multidimensional Mentor who specializes in intuitive energy medicine, Kundalini Dance, and somatic embodiment. You can work directly with Martine through her unique online and in-person opportunities and you feel inspired to dance, join her upcoming 8-week Chakra Journey, which is truly incredible.
