Join Viola Bruni at The Haunted Bookshop as she teaches you ways to reclaim your magic through movement.
“And remember: a witch, first and foremost, is a woman in her power.” – A.W.
What is your relationship with your body?
What is your connection to your menstrual cycle?
Is your creativity and sensual expression flowing or stuck? And what does all of this have to do with magic?
For centuries, many religions, philosophies and spiritualities have disseminated the concept that the body and its inherent wisdom is somehow inferior to the knowledge of the mind, to logic, to rationality. Some have declared the body sinful and relegated sexuality to reproduction, shaming its free expression:
So many of us were taught to keep a lid on anything and everything outrageous. To just turn it off. We turn off our life force, turn off our feelings, turn off our sensuality, and as a consequence, we turn off our power. – Regena Thomashauer, Pussy: A Reclamation
Patriarchal religions sold us the connection to the divine as being up and out in a distant god. What if, instead, the way to more magic was down and within? What if your body was the temple that hosts the divine spark, and your sex and your blood were sacred and holy? How differently would you perceive yourself if you held this thought in your consciousness? How differently would you live your life?
If you ever felt a block to your capacity to create or act freely in the world;
If you ever felt silenced and dismissed in your intuitive truth by ‘rational arguments’;
If you long for a deeper connection with your own body and your cauldron within (aka your womb), but are not sure where to start
And if this scares you, especially if this scares you, come along. We shake off the chains together, holding hands, moving bodies.
About your host:
Viola is an Embodied Meditation teacher who works with tarot and movement in her workshops and 1:1 coaching sessions. She loves guiding people to reconnect with the inner wisdom of their bodies to help them reach their goals. In her university studies, she combined metaphors and movement research to create profound embodied experiences that work on the edge of language, movement and cognition. She is an experienced facilitator with years of practice as a movement and meditation teacher, as well as a women’s circle guide with Tessa Black from Think Emerald.
Please note: the embodiment and meditation exercises we will do are simple and accessible, and don’t require any previous movement experience. They are led in a trauma-informed manner: you are invited to join in any capacity that is comfortable for you.
