Embody Bliss: Authentic Movements™(EBAM) provides spiritual empowerment for women that centers around various body-focused practices and movement. It draws from the ancient Tantric principles of pleasure as a pathway to spiritual expansion as well as numerous body-level transformational processes, such as breath-work and yoga.
EBAM utilizes non-scripted moving meditation guided by internal, sensation-based impulses to reconnect women with deep reverence for the wisdom held within their bodies. Women learn how to find and follow the authentic impulses that arise from their Divine energy flows, expanding potentials for unity, wholeness, and pleasure on all levels: mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual. Women learn to incarnate in each moment, revealing their intrinsic beauty, power and divinity.
EBAM enhances women’s connection to their essential feminine nature and power centers, allowing for greater receptivity to the pleasure and wisdom that permeates these aspects of our beings. The body-focused practices shared in this series are some of the most RESTORATIVE, EXPANSIVE, and TRANSFORMATIONAL methods for women that I know of! EBAM opens women to greater awareness of thier truly sacred nature and deepens love and reverence for their body, its rhythms and cycles, and womanhood in general.
Within a typical class there are periods of personal and group movement interspersed with mini-lectures, group sharing, meditations, individual processing, and energy-shifting techniques. Intense potency and magic is invoked when women circle with intent to celebrate and honor their Divine Natures and connect to that which is sacred and essential for the good of all beings. Revelations, transformations, beauty and sisterhood flourish as women’s spirits, hearts, and bodies interrelate.
EBAM offers sacred, sensate support for unfolding soul within the body vehicle via activation of pleasurable pathways and deeply connected devotion to Self. Held within the body are holy remembrances of our universality. Through Embody Bliss: Authentic Movements™ we experience a holistic picture of our beingness. We have sensate experiences of our simultaneous embodiment, fully human and completely intertwined with the Divine, that bring us into remembrance of the unity inherent within. We feel our connection to past, present and future selves, our ancestors, those raising up because of us, our spiritual guides, and the Source of all guidance. Lived experiences re-connect us to the body as a source of deep wisdom and guidance that we can trust and count on to lead us into fulfillment. A renewed partnership with our body is formed as we remember how to listen deeply to what our body has to offer and increase our capacity to receive its messages. Remarkable growth potential opens as we re-establish our aptitude for identifying impulses as they arise from within the body. Honing our capacity to distinguish between authentic, blissful, soul-guided impulses and scripted, habit-based impulses of should, linear thought, and collective programming supports us in living in alignment with our Essential Nature.
Embody Bliss: Authentic Movements™ is about being fully here on this planet, in this life, and accepting and celebrating that; it is about sexuality and sensuality, the power of Woman and Goddess, nurturing ourselves, celebrating our journeys, and connecting with the ancient wisdom of our ancestors; it is about our bodies, woman’s body, man's body, being perfect just as they are!
Please enjoy this poem Lumenaria wrote about EBAM.
If you'd lke to read an article about EBAM from a participant's perspective, addressing many issues that arise as people are considering whether this class may be for them, please click on the following link:
Click on the following link to view the PDF version of the Marin County EBAM course flyer for the next series beginning either Monday Evening or Tuesday Afternoon:
1. What is EBAM? Embody Bliss Authentic Movements™ blends movement (think meditative dance or yoga) with woman’s empowerment and spiritual connectedness. It’s a body-based practice that draws wisdom from ancient, matrilineal tribal-tantric traditions, akin to many yogic traditions, that focuses on showing women how to connect with their bodies, find and follow their true impulses, and increase access to pleasure on all levels - physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.
2. What do you do during an EBAM class? Periods of personal and group movement are interspersed with meditations, mini-lectures, individual processing, group sharing, and sometimes energy transformation practices. A wide array of music (tribal, tantric, chant-based, angelic, traditional, classical, Hindu…) is used to support the process, theme, or energy of the moment.
3. How long does the class last? 3 hours a week for five weeks. Two ongoing series are being offered in Marin on Tuesday nights from 6:30pm-9:30pm and on Friday mornings from 10am-1pm. Participants commit to one 5 week series at a time.
4. What if I’m not available all 5 weeks? Generally we advise women to forego committing to a series if they will need to miss more than one of the classes.
5. What will be required of me? All women are encouraged to participate in whatever way they feel called. Participants might be invited to expand their experience in specific ways based on the intentions they have chosen, but most women find the experience to have a distinct softness to it, even in moments of intense transformation.
6. Is this class like 5Rhythms or yoga? EBAM does have some similarities to both of these modalities, except it’s much more individualized. It’s geared for women who want a more personal process but definitely like to move and stretch their bodies as in yoga- or 5 Rhythms-type classes. Part of what makes EBAM special is the instructional style which offers the benefits of Lumenaria’s 20 year background in dance, training in psychology, expertise in energy healing, and intuitive skills.
7. What kinds of women attend EBAM classes? Ages vary. Shapes, sizes, and agility run the gamut. Any woman who wants to connect more to her body, learn how to follow her authentic impulses, release self criticisms, or increase her pleasure in life is welcome.
8. What if it’s hard for me to move my body? Many women who experience chronic pain or in some way have a difficult time moving their bodies still find EBAM highly relevant, helpful, and expansive. In fact, many women experience the transformation of pain, increase in flexibility, and strengthened feelings of physical wellness. Contact us for more information about how EBAM may be an important resource for you.
9. What if I’m not religious? EBAM is not based on a religious model but aims to support participants in feeling an enhanced spiritual connection in whatever form that might take. Core ideas that span across various religious traditions may be explored but are always approached in ways that honor each woman’s individual worldview.
10. What should I bring? Comfortable exercise clothing, a blanket, a yoga or floor mat, and water are advised.
Embody Bliss: Authentic Movements™ (EBAM) provides spiritual empowerment for women that centers around various body-focused practices and movement. It draws from the ancient Tantric principles of pleasure as a pathway to spiritual expansion as well as numerous body-level transformational processes, such as breath-work and yoga.
