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;   

PART 1: We dive deep into Katie and Belly Dancing and her journey to get to where she is today with it  &  

PART 2: We start with an example of some moves and then we get into the physical and emotional/mental benefits of Bellydancing as a practice.  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: 

Website

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Facebook 

Timecodes: 

00:00:00 – Intro 

00:01:36 – Performance Art vs Holistic tool and Katie’s Kundalini Awakening  

00:03:50 – The beginning of Awakened Bellydance  

00:08:16 – Explanation from Katie on holistic Bellydancing which we are about to show 

00:11:11 – Bellydancing example  

00:33:49 -  Explaining/ walking through the example of Bellydancing  

00:34:04 – Different hand gestures and where  they come from and how Katie uses them  

00:39:16 – the relationship between kundalini and Bellydance 

00:40:24 – Yoni and yoga and passing down this knowledge from woman to woman  

00:42:24 – The problem with how sex education is taught… 

00:44:23 – The societal effect of losing the rights of passage ceremonies/ celebrations – a girls first bleed used to be celebrated and we’ve lost that 

00:49:18 – Where to find Katie and what she has coming up    

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