by Paulette Rees-Denis | Oct 25, 2021 | Uncategorized
Happy Monday!
What are you wanting to create in your world?
What is creativity?
“Creativity is a phenomenon whereby something somehow new and somehow valuable is formed. “
“the use of the imagination or original ideas, especially in the production of an artistic work.”
“Creativity is defined as the tendency to generate or recognize ideas, alternatives, or possibilities that may be useful in solving problems, communicating with others, and entertaining ourselves and others.”
Lots of ideas and definitions for creativity, the idea of creation, the act of creating.
Yet, so many people say things like, “I don’t have a creative bone in my body.” or “I’m not very creative”. Have you said that? Or ever heard someone say that?
But really, every day is a creative act. Everything you do in some way is being creative. Cooking a meal is creative. Getting dressed is creative. Think about it. It’s not just about creating an art piece outside of yourself, but you are an act of creation.
I do believe it is how you perceive and value your life. How you set your mind up every day. How you check in with yourself and give yourself You time. To listen in, to be aware, to be conscious, connected. To be creative. To be committed…
It is how you honor yourself and your thoughts, your acts, your desires.
We can easily blow ourselves off, belittle ourselves, talk bad about ourselves. That is the inner critic rearing its ugly head. “I’m not good enough.” “I’m not talented”. “I’ll never make more money.” Blah, blah, blah…
Being able to love yourself, taking the time for yourself is all about the act of self-love, of self-creation, or re-creation. The ultimate in self-care. Doing the things that make you feel good can help to shift your mindset. Can help you enjoy your life and fall back in love with yourself. Because feeling good is really what we all want, every day. Why would you not want to feel good?
Of course, I talk about lots of ways of feeling good, of raising your energy, of taking better care of yourself, and your desires, with my students and clients all the time. Moving your body is a top priority. Meditation is taking time to quiet down and check-in. And a daily habit of gratitude is key.
Journaling is one of the best habits you can create for yourself, to get things out of your head, your body, and on the page. A beautiful act of creation.
AN INVITATION FOR YOU!
Why don’t you join my free Masterclass today and do some journaling with us, in our intimate group on Zoom? From the Body to the Page
Time to step out of the box, dive into your curiosity, and take some time to be creative!
**Register at this link
Today, Monday, at 3:00 pm (PT), we’ll meet for an hour on zoom, and I will get your writing down some ideas, using prompts to get you thinking, and yes, a bit of creative writing! Create a new habit for yourself, unscramble your brain, get some creative juices flowing, and enjoy this time for you!
I’d love to see you there. And if you can’t make it today, register anyway and I’ll send you the replay!
From the Body to the Page!
Thoughts become words become things!
You might even find out that you enjoy journaling and will start a new habit…
and you don’t have to be a writer to join us…all are welcome.
**But you do need to pre-regsiter, at this link,
to get your private zoom link for the class, which will be recorded if you can’t make it, but showing up in person is soooo good!
Join me, it’s FREE, and I’d love to have you in class.
click here to let me know you are joining us!
In the meantime, breathe deep and give yourself some love today!
ALSO
***Join me at noon today for my FB Live, right here, and let’s talk!
Now, Mondays at noon (PST)
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thank you for being here, I love you…
by Paulette Rees-Denis | Oct 24, 2021 | Uncategorized
Hello there, here is some good Sunday viewing and listening for your enjoyment and inspiration!
Heart & Hustle: Visionary Healers, Movers, and Shakers,
with your host, Paulette Rees-Denis,
And our guest today is
Sherene Strausberg, motion graphics designer and mom,
and this is episode #130
What a great journey Sherene has taken from playing music to graphic design to motion design to mother, and businesswoman.
In our discussion today, we talk about looking into the future and how Sherene established her career, moving from working for someone else, to starting her own company/business. And how being a mother, and spending time with her family was always a priority as she focused on building the biz.
We talk about how building the business is about learning how to let go, to ask for help, and to really be able to spend time in our own creative zone of genius.
We talk about her early passion of playing music, and mine too, and how sometimes that early vision has to change and shift.
This is good stuff, friend, so enjoy this conversation and let us know what you get from it…
View here…
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More about Sherene:
Sherene Strausberg, founder and creative director of 87th Street Creative, is passionate about helping businesses achieve their branding and marketing goals through powerful, effective design solutions. Understanding the value of communication and collaboration, she ensures clients are informed about the creative process and are thrilled with the final deliverable.
Sherene is informed by her strong creative background. She earned joint bachelor’s degrees in music composition/piano and sound engineering from the prestigious Indiana University School of Music, followed by a master’s degree in film scoring from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. While based in Los Angeles, Sherene worked as a freelance film composer, and as a sound engineer for National Public Radio. She then studied graphic design at UCLA and embarked on a full-time career as a graphic designer. After doing graphic design for several years in New York City, she took the experience from these careers, to focus on motion design. The combination of a music/film background complements her design experience to create motion design videos from concept to completion. She is now proud to call New York her home, where she lives with her husband and three children.
http://www.87thstreetcreative.com/
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I love these quick conversations and interviews and sharing the inspiring entrepreneurs with you! Listen in and enjoy… and please subscribe to Heart and Hustle!
Many blessings!
Youtube: https://youtu.be/tGOqUVbXGro
soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/heartandhustle/heart-hustle-with-todays-guest-sherene-strausberg-motion-graphics-designer-episode-130
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Join me Monday, tomorrow for a
FREE Journaling Masterclass on Zoom
Monday, Oct. 25th at 3:00pm (PT)
For an hour of journaling, deep diving, and having fun with your words!
Get them out of your head, out of your body, and onto the page! I’ll share some writing prompts, and ideas about journaling and changing your words.
Thoughts become words become things!
Must pre-register to get your private link…
***Go here to sign up today!
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Plus my weekly Lives are back! Woo hoo, join me on Mondays at 12:00 pm PST…
Lively Conversations with Paulette!
Join me and let’s talk …
click on over to here and join me… over on FB, https://www.facebook.com/paulettecoach
(on instagram too!)
We always have inspired conversations, with bits of coaching, poetry, lifestyle and magic making, and YOU…
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thank you for being here, I love you…
by Paulette Rees-Denis | Oct 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
Helloooooo ….
Just a quick note to invite you to join me for my next
Free Masterclass on Monday, Oct 25th, 3pm (PST):
From the Body to the Page!
This is an hour for a journaling exploration! I love leading this class (which I do a few times a year), I love journaling, and I love diving into the words that give me clarity and connection! Plus helping you to get those words down too…
Word games, questions, prompts for you to explore and get out of the box, and out of your head! From the body to the page… releasing your thoughts and writing them down…
Thoughts become words become things!
You might even find out that you enjoy journaling and will start a new habit…
and you don’t have to be a writer to join us…all are welcome.
**But you do need to pre-regsiter, at this link,
to get your private zoom link for the class, which will be recorded if you can’t make it, but showing up in person is soooo good!
Join me, it’s FREE, and I’d love to have you in class.
click here to let me know you are joining us!
Have a great weekend,
Oh, and I have a great Heart and Hustle interview coming to you later today!!!
***Join me at noon today for my FB Live, right here, and let’s talk!
Now, Mondays at noon (PST)
**Make sure to visit my NEW webpage and sign up to receive my weekly updates and blogs and all the creative things!
And share me with anyone you know who would love this stuff 🙂
thank you for being here, I love you…
by Paulette Rees-Denis | Oct 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
I’ve been in this business, my dance business, my world of Global Caravan Tribal Bellydance, and all the different paths of work it has taken me, for over 30 years (really all my life)…amazing, right? And I continually pinch myself to make sure it is all still going on! I am constantly humbled, and filled with gratitude, that this is my life, my choosing, my dance, my body, my opportunities, my dance mates, students, and teachers.
And because of that I have grown my lifestyle and business coaching practice, working with creatives to step into their dreams and goals and zone of genius too, as well as becoming a 4 x book author, poet, and world traveler. So much more…I look back and see what I have done, filled with pride too, and honored, to see all who have grown and blossomed out of some contact with my work. As an artist, that type of creation is the fulfillment, the reward, the acknowledgment of all the hard work and sweat and tears and laughter and time. I see how much I have grown as a dancer, a teacher, a teacher’s teacher, a writer, a Life Coach, a director and performer, a choreographer, mostly an inspirator of a creative, healthy, and positive art form and lifestyle, and that I have been able to pass that on to you, in many different ways.
Wow…a quick recap–this includes all the different pro-, semi-pro, and student troupes over the years–Sister Caravan, Caravan Daughters, Urban Berbers, Kiddie Caravan, Caravan Dance Collective, even my first troupe called Maya Dancing! Of course, Global/Gypsy Caravan Dance Company, International, has continued in many morphs for those 30 years, the amazing dance studio I had for 8 years, the Tribal Quest–5 day music and dance festival I produced for 6 years, and now the growing global community of the Caravan Project troupes (mind-blowing), along with all the families of band and music, and CDs, and technique DVDs, online classes, and documentaries, and my dance-influenced memoir, (Tribal Vision: A Celebration of LIfe Through Tribal Bellydance), plus all the magazines and other books. There are all the dancers I’ve trained to also carry on the dance and the ethics and the legacy of Global Caravan Tribal Bellydance, and all their troupes and tribes they have created, and all the dances they have changed and built and their businesses and their hobbies and their passions. And all so healing, on so many levels.
There are always new ideas brewing, new desires I want to fulfill, new creations to be made– my full-on passion to guide you fulfill your desires and to live your everyday magic, plus the coaching and writing programs (From the Body to the Page!) — you dancers have so many amazing stories to tell and I want to help you tell them! Share your heart and soul and find a new way or expression…
Tribal Grooves Teacher Training has also gone global, I”m so proud to see the teachers out there, getting others up dancing and feeling good in their skin and enjoying grooving and enjoying the freedom of movement and toning the body, adding this on to the plethora of levels of my certification courses–Collective Soul and Teacher Training, and my Master Teachers (who bare carrying on the tradition and the legacy with so much love, elegance, and dedication)–to keep you on your path and guide you to be the best dancer, artist, creative, human you can be -! This is spreading the tribal love…
There is always need for reflection. This is not written here to toot my own horn, my friends, but to show me all that I have done and to own it and be so happy, to look back and see how years in the creative world can change and grow and to be able to continue in creation and passion!
And that YOU TOO, can continue to carry on, fulfill your desires, make those moves, take action, and continue on, sometimes when the going is hard. It is worth it. You are worth it. The world needs you and what you have to share, to give, to create, to offer!
I am often asked how I don’t suffer from burnout. Well, I do, peeps. Oh yes…and often… So I have to take really great care of myself. Sometimes I have had to step back to do that. This has not always been easy, but necessary. Especially as an empathic sensitive creative! And I know sometimes that has been difficult for you to understand or accept!
I say this because most of what I do teach is extreme self-care, so you can do the work you are here to do, to make the most of your dreams. Then you can hook into your discipline, your magic action plan ( what I can your MAP), and take the steps to move forward–Movement, Momentum, and Magic!
You always come first, for yourself.
I have chosen this type of lifestyle, to be my own boss, to create freedom, of living, and of creation, and making beauty in the world. Also because of connection and building communities… because I believe in all the perspectives and the awareness that come to be, as one becomes the dancer of life, and any of the paths that one takes. Wellness, spiritual connection, body fitness, determination and pride, adornment, magic, creation, teacher, student, performer, mover and shaker, making music, making love, joining community, the hugs and love, the encouragement, gathering dreams, stepping it up, with pure pleasure and enjoyment, and hard work, commitment, dedication and the giving back…
Because it is about the whole circle,
not just one,
I need you, you need me,
I want you, you want me,
us, all, everyone…
It takes all of us to complete the circle.
It takes all of us to support each other.
Followers, leaders…
The beautiful flowing, open spiraling circle of this dance…
I give thanks to all that have come before me, that have given me the teachings, the integrity,
The desire to keep going, to not give up
The inspirations to dream and create
I give thanks to all whom have grown with me, and
From my womb of creation
To enjoy and prosper and love and move
With the sensuousness, the feminine force, the ancient roots, the modern way
To make themselves into their own desires
Yet with loyalty and knowledge and connection
With me, to stay with me as well as me with them…
I always love to hear what you have to say, or how what I share inspires you…
Have a great weekend,
***Oh, and join me at noon on Mondays, for my FB Live, right here, and let’s talk!
AND!!!
From the Body to the Page!
You can join any week…
Our once-a-week gathering on Zoom with focused time to journal to the varied prompts of poetry, stories, magic and soul searching phrases!
Time to write together and time to read aloud your journaling, with no critique or judgment, only encouragement and support. This is time for you to take the pen to the page, listen deep within your body, and enjoy this hour of YOU and your creativity unfolding.
No experience necessary, all levels of writing welcome. Together we can build our creative community of self-expression and inspiration!
Plus we have a private group page to share our writings with each other.
Every Tuesday, 3:00-4:00 PST on Zoom…
Monthly for $27…
Register here
And we will send you your private zoom link to join in!
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**Make sure to visit my NEW webpage and sign up to receive my weekly updates and blogs and all the creative things!
And share me with anyone you know who would love this stuff 🙂
thank you for being here, I love you…
by Paulette Rees-Denis | Oct 11, 2021 | Uncategorized
I did it! Finished my15 mile swim challenge for the American Cancer Society! It took me a bit longer to finish, but I forged on and did it… and with thoughtful money donations from many of you, and encouragement to continue on, I raised $810 for the ACS.
Why was this important to me? On many levels, many things, for one, to support a good cause, to spread that kind of energy, of giving, of being of service, of raising awareness and helping others think of their ways of helping and giving back too.
On a physical level, I wanted to undertake this challenge to see if I could do it. I love to swim, but I was only doing about 10 laps at a time, I got up to 100 laps, but mostly I was around 50-70 a day ( 58 being a ½ mile in my pool), and I swam almost everyday for over a month. So it was a physical challenge for me too. And the bonus to that is, not only did I get stronger and great-looking shoulders, but I healed the pinched nerve in my back that left my arm tingling all the time. Swimming helped ease that nerve! No more tingling and uncomfortableness in my whole arm.
I had you all to hold me accountable too… that’s a great reason to have a tribe, for connection, support, kick-ass guidance, and inspiration. To be accountable for what you say you are going to do, you want to do… that is a great impetus to keep going. Know what I mean?
So what are you wanting to do? Are you walking your talk? What a great goal you can meet by the end of the year that means a lot to you? Something you’ve been wanting to do? Take a minute and journal it out, ask yourself what that looks like. And what will it look like if you can actually take the action steps to get there? Of course, always remembering it is about the process, not always the end journey.
Sure there were a few days, I thought, I don’t need to finish this challenge. I got up in the morning, early, and put my bathing suit on, grabbed my towel, and walked to the pool. And once I got into the pool I just kept going. Getting started is the hardest part of any project! But I wanted to do it, It made me feel good, in my heart, and my body.
And mostly, I did it for all the cancer survivors and those that have left us because of cancer. Because cancer sucks.
Let me know if I can support you in any way!
Have a great week,
***Oh, and join me at noon today for my FB Live, right here, and let’s talk more about this idea of commitment!
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NOw, Mondays at noon (PST)
AND!!!
From the Body to the Page!
You can join any week…
Our once a week gathering on Zoom with focused time to journal to the varied prompts of poetry, stories, magic and soul searching phrases!
Time to write together and time to read aloud your journaling, with no critique or judgement, only encouragement and support. This is time for you to take the pen to the page, listen deep within your body, and enjoy this hour of YOU and your creativity unfolding.
No experience necessary, all levels of writing welcome. Together we can build our creative community of self-expression and inspiration!
Plus we have a private group page to share our writings with each other.
Every Tuesday, 3:00-4:00 PST on Zoom…
Monthly for $27…
Register here
And we will send you your private zoom link to join in!
What I wrote on Sunday about the first class!
Can I just say how crazy excited I am about our first From the Body to the Page” journaling class last Tuesday? You journalers blew my mind, and I think all of your own minds too, with your own way of showing up with your journaling and by giving yourself the hour and the sacred space to journal your hearts out, to let the words flow and have fun with your words, while joining in our circle!
Poignant, with laughter and tears, aha moments, playful, all the things that come from self-expression and exploration. That’s what I want from my dancers, my clients, my students, and most importantly, myself. To find artful, but non-precious creation! One of the best things I learned in art school was to not try to make every creation precious but just to let it be, to come from the gut, the heart, the intuitive release. And to remember, it is not the end product but the journey along the way. I always say, you gotta have fun while you are doing whatever you are doing!
Amen!
I’ve been wanting to recreate this class in this format for many years. I’ve taught this idea in workshops, and 4-week classes, but now I finally have the knowledge, skills, and desire, to create this sacred space for you…this is an ongoing weekly class so you can build upon your practice of journaling, of enjoying your creative process and playing, an important part of self-care! And also build within the community, which is inspirational and supportive too!.
I was never ready or had the proper time to devote to it before now, and now I am devoted to my own writing practice and creative processes, which are in full swing now, and that I can finally bring this to you, to experience the delight of your own words and explorations, whether they be crappy or brilliant, no matter, no judgment… this is for you, your time, your body, heart and soul, and so freaking fun!
But the point of this is that I want you to step into your desires, what you want to create, figure out how to do it, get advice, coaching, study so you, too, can create what you are wanting to bring into this world, It may not happen overnight, and it might take several incarnations to get where you want it to be… Enjoy that process, but friend, just do it. Jump before you are ready, take a leap, trust your gut and make it happen. It will reward you in so many ways.
If you want to jump into this journaling class, you can join anytime, any week, for a month at a time, and commit to your practice. I am holding space for you!
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**Make sure to visit my NEW webpage and sign up to receive my weekly updates and blogs and all the creative things!
And share me with anyone you know who would love this stuff 🙂
thank you for being here, I love you…
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