10/09/2022
Hello gorgeous souls.
About me
My name is Sharrie. I am a qualified Boxing instructor and Sports Coach. I am also a passionate writer. I have studied with JOYW to bring girls circles/red tents to the island, my hope being to work with young girls, teaching them to use their inner compass and witness their magnificence. I have worked as a qualified Teacher aide for many years at Magnetic Island State school. Supporting children has always been a passion but my biggest passion is empowering myself and others. Sacred Feminine Embodiment is a soul calling of mine and I created the page to share details about an idea I've been working with for a little while. I had some Divine Inspiration flow into my life with such clarity that I knew I needed to bring it to life. So many points in my life have lead me to this purpose and now I am ready to share it. This is a lengthy description of how the idea formed. I will work on a smaller description for the actual class itself along with start time...no obligation to read on but I am honoured should you choose to.
HOW THE IDEA BLOSSOMED
•I loved boxing, I loved the strength and power and cathartic release that came from hitting those pads. I loved it so much that I studied to bring it to others and became a boxing instructor back in 2014. The moment I put the gloves on I felt the rush. I felt the power.
•A little over two years ago I faced a terrifying brain surgery and I've since done alot of reflecting, alot of turning inward, self discovery and unfolding. I understood the love I had missed for self and I thought that by following my passions by finding a physical release, especially through boxing which I fell in love with around 2008, hitting those pads felt damn good and I WAS loving myself by attending to my desires and working on my physical fitness but was I really releasing the pent up rage? Or was I inciting it by looking for a reason to fight because I was just really angry? I've since realised that in truth, it actually was masochistic and I was angry. After my brain surgery, I lost my fitness but I yearned for it. I wanted the strength and power back but I understood it was all about timing and it was something else I was craving.
•I was looking for my inner warrior goddess, not a fighter but a peaceful warrior goddess that would grant me strength derived from confidence and a quiet faith in myself, rather than aggression and anger—a steadiness rather than an unconscious lashing out.
•So I went on an inner exploration through meditation, which brought an inner stillness, where I could go within and tend to my inner garden, plucking any weeds that grew awry from my unconscious brain. I sat by my inner lake staring at my reflection, looking for my purpose, looking deep into my soul and asking "who am I?" "WHAT am I? "What is my purpose?" It brought many answers and creative ideas. I explored my love and passion for writing, which I still work on every day. Pouring creative ideas into my laptop and onto paper.
•But I had a deeper itch that longed to be scratched, something was gnawing at me as I watched what was unfolding in our world - the horrors of a pandemic and a war, the frustration of not knowing the truth, the control from being told what we had to do with our own body. Where the hell has body autonomy gone? My body, my choice, not the governments!! It pi**ed me off. I watched women fighting for abortion rights in America and a deeper anger unsurfaced. A primal rage. I knew it needed release. I understood my healing journey was really a journey into the depths of my soul but I still wanted my fitness back and I felt pi**ed off that I lost it, why had it taken a brain tumour to make me realise my purpose? How had I allowed that? More anger unsurfaced, along with guilt, shame and resentment. I know now that I wasn't aware regardless of how spiritual I thought I was, I was unconscious, I was intuitive, yes but switched off to the guidance of my own soul. I understood that after surgery, my body and mind were different. I understood I wasn't the same person as before I went into the surgical theatre. I awoke different, I awoke to the truth of who we are here to be. Magnificent and Divine but too many if us are holding onto an amger that is keeping us from our own magnificence.
•I crave a more mind, body and soul approach to fitness. I no longer want to punish my body for not being good enough or healthy enough, as I have done for so many years. I always thought maybe through interval training, or spending hours at a time on the heavy bag I could beat my body into being the strong vehicle I so wanted it to be but I understand now that wasn't loving myself, I certainly wasn't loving all facets of myself, all versions of me, including the unfit, hormonal, vulnerable version, so I am learning to love her. I wasn't using compassion, love and kindness. I was punishing my precious body into submission, which so many of us do because we are unaware that there can be a balance. I craved community and connection with other like minded women so I sought through the power of circle and have been inspired in my journey by so many amazing women, women I will be forever grateful for.
•After tasting my own empowerment, I wanted to use what I'd learnt, what is intuitive and innate, to empower others. So through my love of yoga where breath and flowing shapes encouraged a similar inner stillness to meditation, my love of connection and my craving for the boxing gloves, an idea was born. It came to me in such clarity (ironically on my yoga mat during Warrior Pose) It alighted with such need that I knew it was needed by others also. Nothing like it existed, at least that I could find anyway. What if I could combine all these modalities to unleash that peaceful inner warrior to release the sacred rage that has become dormant and passed on through the generations?
•Feminine anger has been dismissed. My own anger has been dismissed by myself for decades. For most of our lives we've been told we don't really feel what we feel. We should be kind, we should be polite. Never angry. We should do this, we should do that. It creates anger which builds and stores in our body, in our cells, in our energy systems, our nervous system.
•We are told that anger is toxic but in fact holding anger in is toxic and releasing it is powerful, when it's held in eventually it festers, manifesting as pain, dis-ease, exhaustion, depression.
•The key is to getting in touch with this blocked energy, moving it out of our physical body and getting back into balance. Boxing helps with physical release - the cathartic affect I had long ago realised, I now know it can be powerful without the aggression, without the masochism. It's time to set the anger free and find balance. My sacred Feminine Embodiment through Boxing aims to do just that. Its time to release the birdens within our body systems and heal 💪🥰👊