Chakradance with Karen Anne

05/25/2026

Sometimes healing doesn't happen through talking. It happens through movement, music and allowing the body to express what it has been holding inside for so long 🪩

05/25/2026

LAKOTA TRAUMA HEALING:

1. The ritual was called “Wičháŋpi Wóyute” — star feeding.
Lakota healers used it for those who lost loved ones or survived violence.
The person didn’t talk about the trauma.
They fed it.
They’d gather stones representing the pain, then carry them to a river and release them one by one while speaking the memory out loud to the water.
The final stone was kept as a reminder that grief was witnessed, not erased.
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2. The practice was banned by missionaries in the 1800s as “primitive superstition.”
But in 2019, Johns Hopkins trauma researchers recreated it with PTSD patients.
They found the physical act of releasing objects while verbalizing trauma engages both hemispheres of the brain — something talk therapy alone doesn’t achieve.
Results after 6 sessions:
• PTSD symptom reduction: 73%
• Intrusive thoughts decreased by 81%
Emotional regulation improved 6x faster than traditional therapy
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3. The protocol (modern adaptation)
• Gather small objects (stones, paper, anything tangible)
• Each object represents one painful memory or feeling
• Go to a natural setting (river, ocean, forest)
• Hold each object, speak the memory out loud
• Release it physically (throw it, bury it, burn it)
• Keep one object as a witness
The act of physical release signals to the brain that the memory has been processed.
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4. Therapy organizations pushed back hard.
One psychologist association called it:
“Unscientific and potentially harmful.”
But the data showed otherwise.
The modern therapy model profits from long-term treatment.
A ritual that works in 6 sessions disrupts a multi-billion-dollar industry.
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5. Try it with one painful memory.
Lakota healers said:
“The wound that’s held grows.
The wound that’s released heals.”
Your brain doesn’t need endless analysis.
It needs a signal that the pain has been acknowledged and can be released.
Most people are still carrying stones from decades ago.

~Post by Sitting Bull

Image: Artist Unknown

05/20/2026

05/02/2026

Something shifts when you slow down and listen inward.

As a spiritual life coach, I help you reconnect with your inner wisdom so clarity, peace, and direction can rise naturally from within.

If you’ve been feeling off, stuck, or disconnected, you don’t have to navigate it alone.

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04/11/2026

🩷 This week has brought a few painful and disappointing moments, and I’ve felt my emotions scattered in ways that have been hard to fully put into words. There have been times I’ve felt ungrounded, like I’ve been moving through the days without quite landing in myself.

Sometimes things don’t turn out the way we hope they will, and even when we understand that intellectually, it can still feel tender when it lands in the heart.

In those moments, I’ve had to pause and gently come back—back to my breath, back to my body, back to what is real right now.

There’s something about emotional tenderness that makes everything feel more intense… the longing, the sadness, the hope, the quiet questions we carry inside ourselves.

As I move through all of this, I’m holding a soft sense of hope for Friday’s New Moon Chakradance gathering. A space to release what’s been weighing on the heart, to soften what’s been clenched, and to reconnect with something steadier within.

If your heart has felt a little tender lately too, you’re not alone. May we meet ourselves gently in whatever we’re carrying—and allow the New Moon to offer even a small sense of renewal.

04/08/2026

Sometimes after a Chakradance™ journey, emotions continue to move through us.

This is part of the healing.

The dance opens spaces within the body and psyche where energy has been waiting to shift. Be gentle with yourself. Rest if you need to. Drink water. Spend time in places that let your soul feel alive.

Trust the process unfolding within you.

You are doing beautiful inner work. ✨

03/30/2026