🎂 Reflections on my birthday
A year to end unhelpful cycles...
PRE-P.S. Enrollment opens for The ⭐️NEW⭐️ Cohesion Collective on Thursday April 25th, 2024 at 9am CT.
Apply now to get your invite to my brand new masterclass (going live for accepted applicants when enrollment opens) showing you what's working for professional bellydancers in 2024!
This week I turned 36 years old! A friend who is into numerology told me year 36 (9) is the year to end cycles. Unhelpful patterns and habits stop this year or they may be destined to continue forever. So I’ve been thinking about the work I still have left to do and the cycles I want to end for good.
Truthfully, embarrassingly, the things that still cause me the most difficulty are:
😔 My relationship to social media, a tendency to compare myself with others, and jealousy of others’ success and attention
😔 My relationship to my body and appearance, and the value I put into how others perceive me
😔 A habitual desire to numb, avoid, protect, and distract myself from difficult emotions (often caused by the first two things I mentioned)
Based on the comments from my instagram post about this, many of you can relate!
So I want to share with you the unconscious belief systems I realized we must be holding onto that keep us in these painful patterns, as well as what belief systems we can replace them with so we can start sharing our authentic selves and become the powerful creators we are capable of being.
These unhelpful subconscious beliefs are:
❌ Society is a zero-sum game. If someone else succeeds or gets love or attention, there will be less available for me.
❌ In order to feel whole, safe, and loved, I need the approval of others. I must be liked and seen as “good” (not only morally but also as thin and young), or my existence is threatened.
❌ I am weak and fragile. I can’t handle the pain and discomfort of difficult emotions.
This is NOT my conscious belief system.
I do not believe any of what is listed above. But I must, on some deep level, still be hanging on to these ideas otherwise I would be free already of these nagging patterns that still sometimes hinder my joy, ability to share, connect, grow, and create.
This is what I actually believe:
✅ The world is abundant. Love is limitless. When someone else succeeds it opens up the path for my own success.
✅ The only approval I need is the approval I give to myself. I am safe, even when disliked or dismissed by others. I decide what is valuable. I decide what is beautiful. I am imperfect, I make mistakes, and that is ok because I am learning and growing. I am inherently worthy. Wearing my age and my experience on my body and face is a badge of honor, a marker of great power and awareness.
✅ I am strong and resilient. I can experience discomfort and be ok. I am patient with the ever-changing circumstance and emotional landscape of this human life. I trust that no matter what happens, I am ok.
If I look carefully, I am presented with opportunities every day to act from the belief system I choose. I can choose to release my old survival-based beliefs, to support the growth and success of another, to share my imperfect self, to be brave, and to trust. I am proud to say that I do act from this belief system of abundance, inherent worthiness, and trust most of the time. I really like who I am and the choices I make. I wish it was a little easier sometimes but it's ok that I still struggle a bit, too. I really am getting there. And I’m excited to spend this year meeting all the opportunities to grow with love.
I also want to share a beautiful new dance video with you! Here is brand new footage of me performing Persian dance with Nafas Dance Ensemble for this year's Nowruz celebration in Austin, Texas:
Finally…
I am REALLY EXCITED because I am launching a new way to work with me:
The ⭐️NEW⭐️ Cohesion Collective
my comprehensive teacher training and performance development program for current and aspiring professional bellydancers
Over the last two years we have added SO MUCH content, support, and amazing bonuses to The Cohesion Collective that I decided to revamp the whole program!
While I originally started this program with the desire to help people learn how to become brilliant bellydancers using the Dance Cohesion framework for their own personal satisfaction and to help bring joy into their lives through creativity and mastery, the amazing results that are achievable through this program have become crystal clear to me:
We teach the skills, strategies, and mindset to become a successful professional bellydancer. So many graduates have gone on to teach and perform at the professional level, it's amazing! And we've added so many practical tactical workshops and templates to help you become a pro-level dancer (whether you've been working on that goal for years or are just getting started).
Enrollment opens for The ⭐️NEW⭐️ Cohesion Collective on Thursday, April 25th at 9am CT. That's also when my brand new masterclass will be going live, showing you what's working for professional bellydancers in 2024!
This new masterclass and enrollment is only available to accepted applicants! So apply today to get your invite!
I can't wait to share with you all the updates and lessons I've learned over the last two years of helping bellydancers reach their pro goals!
Warmly,
April Rose 🌹
🚨 You'll want to apply ASAP to get the bonuses available for this enrollment period only!
Read what dancers are saying about The Cohesion Collective…
Reetta is thrilled to be working as a salaried bellydance teacher:
“I’m so happy! When I started this program I would not have thought that I would work as a salaried teacher. But guess what, I have now been working as a dance teacher for a few months at a civic college, thanks to this program I had the courage to do it. And I was asked to teach more groups next fall! I’m so excited! So thanks to you, without this program I wouldn’t be here now!”
P.S. There's still time to register for my upcoming in-person weekend intensives! (And members of The Cohesion Collective get a discount on enrollment so make sure to apply today if you are interested in both!)
1️⃣ Dance Cohesion
Stage 1 Enrichment Course
May 18-19
Learn bellydance movement, music, and history
2️⃣ Dance Cohesion
Stage 2 Connection Course
May 24-26
Dance and Frame Drum with Cued Group Improvisation
P.S.S.
If you live in Austin, please join me and my weekly class students for our upcoming class showcase on April 30th! We'll be performing our group improv format, Cued Cohesion, and sharing solos! The show is free and guaranteed to be tons of fun! Hope to see you there!
Become a Professional Bellydancer
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