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On New Year’s Eve 2021, I made a different choice. Instead of repeating the usual pattern of drinking, distraction, and waking up hungover on January 1st, I walked into a sober ecstatic dance event alone. I was anxious. I was nervous. And it changed my life.
In this episode, I explore how movement became medicine — not just as a way to have fun, but as a powerful tool for emotional release, confidence, and self-connection. I share how learning to “dance with the emotion” helped me move through fear, anxiety, guilt, and resistance rather than suppressing them.
We talk about embodiment, projection, and why the qualities you admire in others — confidence, charisma, energy — already exist within you. The key is learning how to reclaim them.
This conversation is about more than dance. It’s about using movement to process emotions, build resilience, and take aligned action in your life. Whether through ecstatic dance, shaking, yoga, running, or any form of embodied practice, your body holds the wisdom.
If you’ve been feeling stuck, disconnected, or held back by fear, this episode is an invitation to move — and see what shifts.
By James AinsworthSend a text
On New Year’s Eve 2021, I made a different choice. Instead of repeating the usual pattern of drinking, distraction, and waking up hungover on January 1st, I walked into a sober ecstatic dance event alone. I was anxious. I was nervous. And it changed my life.
In this episode, I explore how movement became medicine — not just as a way to have fun, but as a powerful tool for emotional release, confidence, and self-connection. I share how learning to “dance with the emotion” helped me move through fear, anxiety, guilt, and resistance rather than suppressing them.
We talk about embodiment, projection, and why the qualities you admire in others — confidence, charisma, energy — already exist within you. The key is learning how to reclaim them.
This conversation is about more than dance. It’s about using movement to process emotions, build resilience, and take aligned action in your life. Whether through ecstatic dance, shaking, yoga, running, or any form of embodied practice, your body holds the wisdom.
If you’ve been feeling stuck, disconnected, or held back by fear, this episode is an invitation to move — and see what shifts.