ABOUT THE CHALLENGE : Get on in.

Flow into Fire Alchemy is a virtual challenge to inspire us towards inner gold and community resilience.

Living a life that is authentic, artful, and active is an act of resistance & revolution in itself. Getting our bodies moving through flow is freeing ourselves from the inside out. Over the course of 7 weeks we will ground in, muse, move, flow, and get active to unite mind/body/spirit in mini-rituals to prepare ourselves for the Solstice portal & Fire Alchemy Gathering.

Each week, Gaea will offer a reflection, prompt, and musing question for you to create around. The idea is for you to take about an hour over the course of a week to FLOW in your body with your prop of choice (body/dart/spoon/cat can be a prop, etc…), film a thing, post it, and write a few sentences. Nothing super deep needed, simply your attention & devotion in this quick & dirty world. Move, dance, and flow through these weeks rather than getting in your head about “being good enough”. Think about them as activations, rather than assignments.

Here, we have all the prompts from the challenge for you to do on your own time! Happy dancing!

Prompt Peep:

1 : Flow to Center / Core

2 : Authenticity / Get Weird

3 : Building Trust / Try

4 : Play / Nervous System Regulation

5 : Revolution

6 : Belonging : Self / Community / Universe

7 : Self-Actualization / Expansion

Weekly juicy questions will help to ground you, see the value in the events like Fire Alchemy, and activate flow as a healing artform in these tough times.

1 : Flow … to Center / Core

CHALLENGE 1!

Flow State is a place of timelessness and unlimited possibility. Yet, to find ourselves there we must work diligently to sculpt the pathways thru struggle, growth, release, and rest towards the flow.

Your CHALLENGE is to FIND FLOW or to NOT FIND FLOW. spend 5-10 min a day to breathe, move, dance, spin, and groove and see what happens. Notice mindstate and body, and invite Friends in nonlinguistic communicative flow

Flow connects us with central ideas and concepts, often revolving around oneness & Mini miracles.

Here we are out of our head and into our body- the place flow resides outside ego and self criticism.

2 : Authenticity / Get Weird

HERE’S your CHANCE! flow into your best weird, wild and wonderful to explore who you want to be… who you want to become… and who you ARE.

Our authentic selves are born of deep listening to what turns us on and tunes us in - and embracing that into every aspect of our daily is THE REVOLUTION. Shine it in every personality and every hat we wear.

This week, take time to be still, listen in to your body, & let your freak flag fly in your movement flow practice.

3 : Building Trust

Trust is a blooming into knowing that the self is held safely in any situation by the universe. It is carving the pathways of neural remembrance so we feel safe.

Trust is built upon repetition & intuition

It is a courageous surrender into the unknown that breaks down the barriers that separate.

It is balanced between deep inner listening, intuition, and intelligence. In the action itself, trust is both an innate knowing and a decision

Trust with a curious, open, loving mind & truly open to the magic & mystery of whatever may unfold. Here, unexpected paths present themselves, and trust allows us to take those paths with joy.

Fire is a rapid way to build trust in communities and self. Flow arts bring us to trust our body & brain connection.

This week, take time to be still, listen in to your body, & follow your trust pathways in your movement flow practice. Where do you truly trust yourself? Where are you building that trust?

4 : Play / Nervous System Regulation

Play is our pathway to embodied joy, and releasing shame and guilt in being our most juicy selves allows for playful boundaries to support our whole existence.

Play is not just for kids - playing continually as adults is even MORE important so we don’t get slogged down by cultural standards of productivity and worthiness in our capacity to be valuable through our capitalistic contributions towards society and the economy.

Laughter as a contribution is equally as important as anything else, as is the levity of a game. For when we boil it down, playing with others gives us the contextualizations for the harder points of life, like conflict resolution, communication, struggle, loss, competition, and learning new skills. When these are infused with a playful attitude, everything changes.

This week, explore how to transform moments through play, as you heighten a sense of oneness and levity, inciting joy. Invoke the curiosity embodied in play as you lightheartedly explore mobility and flow!

5 : Revolution

A revolution, a turning, a revolve to return to the beginning stages where new oppritunity abides.

How do circles and cycles appear in our lives and bodies, in vast timelines and dream desires?

A revolution is waking up, spinning on heels (or toes) towards something …. Different. A turn towards or away. A flowing decidedly within a circular pattern towards a new part of that sphere.

This week flow and consider:

What revolution do YOU call in these days? How does it already appear in your body mind and soul? How does FLOW instigate and settle it in? How does FiRE incite the spirit to revolution?

6 : Belonging : Self / Community / Universe

We long to feel a part of something greater than ourselves.

Ourselves are individuations of a greater whole, unseen belonging to systemic rhythm, each part a person, a poem, necessary.

Belonging to our own body and in thus, our ancestry and future.

To the stars

And

To the earth

And

Humankind in all.

To divorce the self from the whole is to separate by chaos force, a choice made mentally.

Separation is an illusion.

Reunion is our long adventure back to the sweet reunion of valuing ourselves for simply existing.

And for that, simply, we belong to this planet, to each other, to ourselves.

This week flow and consider:

How do you initiate belonging in your bones? When do you divorce yourself from belonging and feel icky because of it? Can you open your heart and BELONG in your flow even more, to the universe itself?

7 : Self-Actualization / Expansion

Do you feel the drive to unite your unique talents and specialities into the YOU you that’s only present in YOU?

Self-actualization is a process of becoming the most-best YOU possible - realizing full potential. Here you recognize and unite the flames of being that light you up and present them into a tapestry of individuation that is peak self.

Here, the last process of Alchemy - coagulation - unites all we are into our best selves.

This journey expands us, and is a revolution away from monotony and sameness - it’s seeing our magic. Understanding how to use it. And gratefully initiating abundance mindsets to receive all we need in this life.

Fire Alchemy is a time for us to check-in on this process and help ourselves - and each other - become the best we can be, continually.

This week, flow and muse:

Who is your Actualized, Realized, best-self? When do you touch upon this being, and when do you shift away from it in fear or laziness or complacency?

How can your flow practice support your self-actualized alchemically realized self?

enjoy the flow,

xoxo

gaea