Thea Beaulieu
Thea Keats Beaulieu is the Director of BioSonic Enterprises, a dance and movement therapist, Registered Polarity Practitioner. She is the author of the Color Love Journal and her new book Moving with the Elements - Daily exercises to increase your balance, flexibility and well-being for all ages and all stages.
Thea has been a principal dancer for the Isadora Duncan Dance Company of San Francisco and has danced in New York with the Isadora Duncan dance company. She has taught extensively in Europe and America and is now a Senior Teacher of the BioSonic Academy at the Stone Ridge Retreat Center. Her unique contribution to the healing arts is teaching people how they can express themselves through Dance and Color and the Five Elements. She is the creator of the dance and movement experience, Dancing With The Elements, which helps students embody the five elements. Thea holds degrees in English, Dance, and Dance Therapy.
She graduated from the University of Wisconsin and is featured in Polarity Yoga and Polarity Reflexology.
The holidays are upon us. We can feel them inching their way into our consciousness with pumpkins and turkeys and bright fall colors burnt orange , brown , green, and yellow.
The leaves are bursting from the trees, and a myriad of feelings may sweep over us . It is very important that you keep moving , keep the energy in your body flowing , so you can meet the many challenges that might come your way, in the form of people, jobs, coworkers, bosses, spouses, children, parents, and friends.
Moving is like breathing, essential to life. The more we move the happier and healthier we are. The more flexible we are, the more we can “go with the flow”, and move with all of life’s challenges, the easier our life becomes.
Element Guide - Pick an element from the guide and do these simple exercises to keep you balanced and on track this holiday season, we can consciously choose to enhance our abilities and capacities to experience joy, happiness, peace, and security within ourselves and to those we come in contact with.
The purpose of this article is to teach you a new way to keep balanced, go with the flow , this holiday season, and to be able to enjoy every moment of the holiday season. These exercises will help you learn to let the elements you pick pass through you like a wave. You can stop, close your eyes, and tune in to the physical sensations in your body. You can learn to experience your feelings as physical sensations and become softer. Start to notice if you are becoming warmer or colder: how is your breathing, is it becoming faster or slower?
Is there a feeling of expansion or constriction in your body, and if so, where is it located?
Element Guide for the Holiday Season