I met Katie through Starseed Business Networking (a free online networking for everyone in the holistic space), she was actually the featured guest speaker the month we met, I was instantly taken with her story and what she was doing in the world, how she was empowering women in such a creative way. So I reached out to her to ask if she'd like to be a guest on my podcast and she said yes! This conversation was so interesting, so deep, I didn't want to edit it down and down so I decided instead to split it into two parts;   

Hope you enjoy the first part of this interview with the fascinating and inspirational Katie Holland  

If you want to know more about Katie, please find all her links below: 

Timecodes: 

00:00:00 – Intro to a new way of podcasting going into 2023 

00:01:22 – Intro with Katie 

00:05:06 – Katie’s bio in her own words 

00:07:54 – History of Bellydancing 

00:12:16 – Bellydancing in pregnancy and what it does to your muscles inside 

00:16:10 – The historical link between Indian Hareem and Bellydancing 

00:18:38 – Katie’s Kundalini Awakening 

00:30:26 – More Bellydancing History… 

00:35:19 – Empowerment of the women doing Bellydancing vs service to their audience 

00:44:07 – Teaching Empowerment through Bellydance 

00:45:29 – On working with the shadow aspects of self and what that all means  

Music credit: Bensound [https://www.bensound.com/]