Ep. 105 Eternal Dancers: Discovering the Timeless Transcendence of Dance and Healing

In this fun and inspiring episode, I’m joined by Megan Bloom, founder of Eternal Dancers, who shares her lifelong passion for dance 💃 and its transformative power ✨. Megan reveals how dance can be a path to self-discovery, healing and personal growth—especially for those navigating grief, loss, or physical rigidity.🌿

Through breath work, visualization, and music, she helps people unlock deeper movement experiences. Megan also creates unique offerings on her YouTube channel, from one-minute dance expressions to longer dance adventure journeys that invite participants to reconnect with their bodies and emotions.

We also discuss how movement can be practiced anywhere—even in the smallest spaces, as Megan shares her personal journey and the lessons she's learned adapting her dance practice to tiny home living.

This conversation is a reminder that movement isn’t just physical—it’s medicine for the soul.🕊️ It is suited to those who love dance or want to move their body more through creative self-expression.

#GriefHealing #DanceTherapy #PersonalGrowth #HealingThroughMovement

Connect with Megan:
https://eternaldancers.com

Megan’s YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@EternalDancers

Connect with Vonne:
https://vonnesolis.com

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Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome.
• 0:06 Introduction to Megan Bloom and Her Work.
• 3:45 The Role of Dance in Self-Discovery and Healing.
• 9:49 Incorporating Dance into Daily Life.
• 15:43 Dance and Guided Visualization.
• 23:26 Dance and Community.
• 32:08 Megan's Dance Adventure Journeys.
• 50:31 Dance as a Therapeutic Practice.
• 52:04 Dancing in a Tiny House and Solutions for Small Spaces.
• 1:00:44 Final Thoughts.
• 1:03:54 Closing.

Transcript

Megan Bloom  0:00  
This is the Grief Talk Podcast with Vonne Solis, helping you heal after loss and life's hardest hits. 

Vonne Solis  0:05  
My guest today is Megan Bloom, the founder of Eternal Dancers. As a lifelong dancer with over 30 years experience in numerous dance genres and a teacher of children and adults for over a decade, Megan uses the magic of dance to foster powerful self-expression and presence in others through free flowing movement and self-expression. As a dance instructor, Megan offers many resources to inspire people of all backgrounds to embrace personal growth and holistic wellbeing through creative movement and at their own comfort level. She uses breath work, visualization and music for transformational experiences to anyone who loves to dance or simply wants to move more. 

So welcome everybody. Welcome Megan to this episode. Pop in, say hi to my audience, then we're going to get into it. Talk all about dance and movement and everything associated with what you do.

Megan Bloom  1:07  
Awesome. Well, I am so excited to be here and have this conversation. From when I got to start realizing what you were sharing and your previous interviews you've done, I just felt so much compassion, and I would say that real authenticity from you. Your clarity. And so I was so excited to be able to have this time, to have a conversation with you, as well as be able to share that with your listeners.

Vonne Solis  1:33  
I'm so happy to have you on the show for several reasons, Megan, and right up front, I'm going to you, and I connected on probably LinkedIn or something, and right away we connected over your dance. And I am not a dancer, folks, and one of the things I found so special about you when we first met, and then since then, I've gone to your YouTube, and I love your one minutes. Oh my god, which I want to get you to talk about. So you're such a fun loving spirit, and I just got fun when I was watching you. Megan shares one minute - are they daily one minute dance expressions, or several times a week anyway, right?

Megan Bloom  2:20  
Yeah, throughout time I had done, I was, like, doing one minute every day. Now it's a little bit more occasional and mixed in, or I'm pulling kind of themes from the greater dance adventure journeys that I lead. But I have a huge collection that I've established now over time so, and they're a lot of fun.

Vonne Solis  2:38  
Yeah, and so you just so I was watching them the other day, and I was just smiling. I clicked on about eight of them. And you dance all genres, pretty much, and you just go into this, and you have your music, and you're just like, this is what we're doing. And so I'm going to talk to you a little bit about that because it put a smile on my face. And I'm like, crap, you're a good dancer. I mean, you really are a good, good dancer. And so you're going to be looking at life from a completely different, you know, way, than someone who is not a dancer does. But I think what's really interesting is how, and we're going to get into it right now - that you feel that dance is a tool for self-discovery. And whether or not, and I know you're a teacher of children to adult, and so I'm assuming you could work with someone who's just curious about dance. Is not a dancer, but just wants movement in their life. And so that's one thing that really drew me to you. 

The other thing is I did download your 15 minute one just to get moving, which you could do on a chair or standing. And you're really very thorough when you bring someone who isn't used to movement. And I remember telling you, emailing you when we met that you know, I've been in bereavement 20 years after losing my daughter to suicide, and it has just done a number on me. And where I like to dance but let's be clear. I didn't come into the incarnation to be a dancer, but it really made me stiff. And 20 years later, I'm still pretty stiff and and and it's very hard to, you know, get the body moving when it becomes so rigid in pain and and grief and trauma and all this. And I'm speaking probably on behalf of millions of people who get stuck where they where they just can't really move because that movement and that freedom of expression is happiness and joy. And that's what I get from you. No matter what's happened in your personal life and I'm sure you go through stuff too, you're still able, you're born, you came here to do this and share. And I'm I'm almost a little bit, I don't want to say envious of it by any means but I'm really respectful and actually, kind of in awe that for anybody that can do that and create fun in their life, I would wager, you know on a near daily basis, except maybe for those days you really need a break from being fun, if that's just your personality. 

So I want to get into that with that in mind, and speaking to my audience, some who may be in bereavement. Others who are struggling with other things. Others that just want inspiration. I have a wide range of audience viewers and listeners coming from across the generations. And so dance is for everybody. And so I want you to take it away with speaking a little bit more about dance as a tool for self-discovery, and, you know, and basically what you think about that, and then we're going to move into how we can incorporate that into our daily life.

Megan Bloom  5:53  
Yeah, well, you just that was an amazing opener. I feel so honoured, I guess, that you feel that, that pure joy, because I would say that's what dance has always been for me. It's been just going back. I've danced my whole life. It was said I was like dancing before I could walk. And I definitely feel like dance was a part of my, almost like purpose in coming into this life, to have that be a vehicle of expression for myself. And so for me, it's certainly been like my personal, I would say, like sacred gift that I'm able to give myself to find that that balance. And I'm probably the reason why I am quite a happy person, I think, is because I get to move and I dance, and that's certainly, just from a the physical release perspective, the somatic perspective, is what kind of helps me, I think, be able to process my life and process all those things. So I definitely haven't had an easy life, but yet, I do consider myself to be a pretty happy person, and I think dance is intricately interwoven in that. But yeah, I was dancing my whole life. Grew up dancing, and then have been a dance instructor of children and adults, like you said. And in that, I taught a lot of ballroom dance, like ballroom, Latin and swing dance, and had the opportunity to work with a whole range of adults and all different ages and people who have never danced before. 

And it's amazing how you know, even though we come into these beautiful vessels of our bodies that can do everything and keep us safe and allow us to be creative, we start to get out of touch with them, if we're not actively kind of being intentional with our movement, or realizing that our bodies can be a form of expression. And so right away, with my - a lot of my ballroom dance teaching, I realized like, Okay, I'm working with people here who have got lost touch with their bodies, and how do we help those connections go back? So how do you help people get out of their head and almost back into their bodies? Because it takes a lot to figure out how to rotate your body and have your left foot, go here, raise your arm at the same time. There's a lot of connections required. And I feel like that was a huge preparation for what I'm doing now, and really helping more in the embodied movement conscious dance realm. Is that my ballroom dance teaching set me up well, because I got to work with so many people who were brand new to dance. 

And also I feel like a big part is like dance is something that hu humans we've done forever, like through all the time. It's been our form of ceremony and celebration and what we do to come together. But you know, in more recent history, it's become something that, okay, those are dancers. I'm not a dancer. That kind of like, separation of, oh, I don't know how to dance, or I have two left feet. And what my passion, I feel like, is my purpose now is helping give movement back to people, and helping people like, I guess, have, like, a permission slip to be like, I can move. I can dance. Even though I'm not a dancer. I don't know how to move. I generally feel pretty stiff. I might have these different ailments or such that even prevent me from doing certain things. That doesn't have to stop you from that. And so I founded eternal dancers, really from the concept of having it be a very self-empowering self, really, to give people that ability to say, there's that part of me deep inside that needs to move, and by naming it. By calling it eternal dancer, because it's innate. It's in me. I'm going to work on remembering that, I get to honour it by movement. And movement for the sake of movement, versus movement for how it looks, or how you think it's supposed to look. To look pretty or graceful or with technique. 

So I feel like I come into this world having dance be who I am. I have the training that gave me the vocabulary and the technique that it just works that well for me. That being said, I feel like my calling and my passion is to essentially be that spirit that encourages people to get moving and dancing, no matter what their past movement abilities were or even their like dance goals. It's not about that. It's more for like, the healing, empowerment perspective of it and because dance has a way of giving our bodies that movement that we need to unwind. And that's why now in my work, I really combine breath work and even visualization to let that movement be even more powerful than you would think it would be just to move your hand this way or move your hand this way. And I think for so many people, what dance gives us is when we turn on music like, what is dance? And I feel like a big part of dance is moving to music.

Vonne Solis  10:49  
Right.

Megan Bloom  10:49  
Music naturally kind of stimulates us. Gets us excited. Touches our heart. And that that little spark, that inspiration, that music does for our movement, I feel like can turn anybody into someone who says, I'm moving to music now, no matter how it looks. And so I think dance is really powerful in that way. Because I think dance naturally needs to go with music more or less, or have some type of rhythm, or even have your breath. There's a rhythm that dance comes from, and that can really tap into that innate part of us that's really important. So for the like self-empowerment and self-discovery part, I feel like dance transcends borders. It's timeless. It's more about remembering what it is for ourself and letting ourselves remember how to be whole again. When we connect with our bodies, we automatically it's like you're get to be more present in all the space of who you are. And that's my goal of how I help people. Their their support going, you got this, and I'm here, and you're safe, and let's be creative together.

Vonne Solis  11:57  
I was thinking, I was thinking while you were talking, it's so interesting, like, we don't in North America, we don't come from a culture of community dance. And if, if anyone who's travelled will understand that many cultures around the world have community dances. Line, it borders sort of along line dancing, but it's community and you're all doing the same steps at the same time to the same music, and they grow up with it from babyhood. So dance forms part of the culture as a way of connection, communication, celebration and right? And so an example might be, if you don't think you're a dancer, but years ago, remember when line dancing, I don't know if they're still doing it, but..

Megan Bloom  12:43  
 They are. There's online dancing happening.

Vonne Solis  12:45  
for the community that sort of the western feel to it, right? I remember going to, I lived in the diplomatic corps for a while, and we went to this, my husband and I, this big, big, massive, you know, dinner and dance event, and it was all Scottish dancing. Didn't know a thing about it. But we all got in there and they showed us what to do, and everyone just celebrated on the same level. So there was none of this feeling of, I'm not a dancer. You don't even think about whether you can dance. You just, your body, does it.

Megan Bloom  13:15  
Yeah. Because you're trusting that, and you like, let go. 

Vonne Solis  13:18  
It knows how to move. Like you're free. You're free before all the other crap in our life takes over and traps us in, like, stiffness and rigidity for a whole host of emotional and mental reasons. It's got nothing to do with the physical, does it?

Megan Bloom  13:33  
No, it usually just ends up landing there. 

Vonne Solis  13:35  
But, yeah, it's like...

Megan Bloom  13:36  
but you don't process it through.

Vonne Solis  13:37  
Right. And so, so I was thinking of that while you were talking and wishing, geez, I really wish that we had established communities. In Canada here, each culture comes and they, they preserve their traditions, but they don't necessarily share outside their community. And, you know, and so it's really interesting. And then, and then, you know, for anyone who's gone to all inclusives, or, you know, you know, that dreaded moment where they say, come up. I don't go to them anymore, but come up and dance, you know. And it's, you know, if you're in Mexico or whatever, it's all the Latin style, right? And, and it's like, no, I'll be humiliated. Anyway, you're speaking to someone who, really wants to dance, okay? And can and, and I've tried a few, not to the point I'm going to take dance lessons, but I've tried a few Zum Zumba, is it? It's more a Latin thing, right? 

Megan Bloom  14:38  
Yeah.

Vonne Solis  14:38  
But it's just getting the movement, exercise dance. So talk to us about how you can incorporate dance. So we know the importance of it. And the other thing is, how prevalent do you think the notion of dance is silly in North America?

Megan Bloom  15:01  
Unfortunately, a lot. Or that it, I can't do it, like, separation from it. Like it's for people who you know are certain body size, who are athletic, who have had certain training.

Vonne Solis  15:13  
Yeah.

Megan Bloom  15:14  
And yeah. So because I got to work with ballroom dancers, I got to work with that set of people. It was like, but I want to figure out how I can. And I think that was fun because there's a, there is a lot of people who, if they have, like, a vehicle or a framework that they can go like, I could start to move within that. Then they could start to say, you know, it's not silly, it's actually really cool. Or I don't have to look perfect to have a lot of benefit from that.

Vonne Solis  15:43  
Yeah.

Megan Bloom  15:43  
 And so that's why, like, a lot of what I do is creating guided movement journeys where my goal is, like, to kind of give you that prompt. Give you those cues, so that you get through that point where you're like, in your head I don't know what to do, or this is looking really silly. And I feel like if we have an intention or kind of a pathway that we're focussed on, and almost that's why a lot, a lot of what I do is creating, like, a visualization setup to be like, you know, imagine you're here, or I give props. So, like a lot of my one minuters are about, you know, let's make circular size shapes. So that could be circles with your hands, circles with your arms, circles with your whole body, to give yourself, like a framework about what you can fill in, versus just saying, I'm gonna turn on music and now move around. That's what stumps up a lot of people, because a lot of people are like, Okay, I just do my silly dance, and they don't know what to do. And so there's that, that prompting, that support. That's why I really try to create, like, a safe environment of be be like, experimenting. Be curious, but here are some ideas to get you going, because I think it's and actually not just going, but throughout the process, because that supports people through that, I'm nervous part.

Vonne Solis  16:58  
I think the prompts are really, really great. And I'll tell you why. I've done a couple of, years ago now, but retreats and that you go in and and the person you know who's leading it, Okay, just express like, just do anything. Just like what you were saying and people are like, Huh? And then, and then you always get the one or two that are just going crazy and stuff. And then, and then you get the other ones like me that are going, Yeah, well, I'm not quite liberal enough and free enough to want to do that, and my body doesn't want to do that.

Megan Bloom  17:29  
I know.

Vonne Solis  17:30  
So I think...

Megan Bloom  17:30  
You're not alone. 

Vonne Solis  17:31  
Thank you. So you know, I think the prompts are really important. And I want to, I'll just say one, say one other thing is many years ago. So let me see. So just let me think, how many? About, okay, about about maybe 45 years ago, now. I was working a job. And my daughter at the time was no so it had to be about 40, 42, years ago. So she, at the time, was a little baby, and I was working in this at this job, and we went for a dinner. And this one older gentleman, there was we were dancing, and he whisked me. He was an amazing, like, ballroom dancer, and he whisked me around that floor, and I responded, following his moves. So I didn't have to know how to do it. And he's the only partner I ever had that did that for me. But I've never forgotten it, because the freedom I felt. So you must be so lucky. What I feel about you is you must be so lucky to get to feel that every day. Whether you're dancing on your own or with a a partner who's gifted, you know, well, like you would know anyway, with the moves. But I've never forgotten that. And I guess I was around, you know, maybe 25ish, 26. 26 somewhere in there? 

Megan Bloom  18:55  
Yeah.

Vonne Solis  18:55  
And I never forgot the feeling.

Megan Bloom  18:58  
Yeah!

Vonne Solis  18:58  
But it went away. But the story kind of got sad. Because, then, because, then, fast forward, I married someone, love him, but thought dance was silly. That's why I'm, I asked that question, and so all of that was stopped. No going to no going dancing. All of that was stopped, and it was a compromise I made. But really feel that anyone who loves something like music or dance and then compromises, it does leave a bit of, well, you tell us what it leaves. It leaves some emptiness in you. What does it really leave in us?

Can't even imagine. Like, I think, well, my grandma, she was a dancer. Absolutely loved dance, and adored dance. And she wanted to go down to Hollywood and do a bunch of dance stuff. She that ended up not playing out that way. And so she got married and had kids and and dance wasn't a major part of her life. And I do feel like that contributed sadness and grief to just having that part of her that didn't get to express itself.But I think that almost helped make her all the more determined to make sure that I had the opportunity to dance, because she was in my life a lot, and she was like, Megan is clearly a dancer. We gotta let, like, support this and let that flourish. And I know for myself, my dance is unwavering, uncompromising. I have, like, a no matter what attitude I'm moving. And even when something gets, you know, stiff, or something happens, or, like, a little knee thing happens, like, I can't be all out expressive-wise, I still do some type of movement.

Megan Bloom  19:41  
I mean, it's amazing how simply letting giving ourselves permission to, like, say, sway, kind of back and forth and let our spine just kind of feel that ease. Or if we rotate our hips, or even if we just almost, like stroke our face tenderly, like with care. That type of love that we can give to ourself, even if it's super simple, like sitting or you're just standing, you're just moving so minimally, is such a powerful gift. And I feel like, for myself, it's become like it's it's self-care. It's like brushing my teeth, or, you know, making sure you eat good food. Like, it just becomes part of how I take care of myself, as well as, like, how I am really happy and joyful and in alignment I feel like with my life calling. I feel like it's really important that we follow our passion and and thank the universe by letting our gifts that we get given? You know, giving them back in some way. For me, that's definitely dance. And so, 

Vonne Solis  21:45  
Yeah.

Megan Bloom  21:45  
not only is it like a life passion, but for me, it's a self-care practice that has had to become non-negotiable. And so what I always encourage people to do, like, when they're trying to figure out, like, how do I get myself moving, is start small. Like, maybe it's just five minutes a day that you you find some music that moves your soul. And, you know, I feel like we all have different music at different times in our lives that serves us or, you know, and so it might be, might be a brand new song you want to get. Maybe it's, like, your favourite song. Maybe it's just some song you used to really like, but that always made you kind of want to move. Go back and find that song and have yourself, like, have like, a sacred time, even, like I said, if it's just the length of one or two songs.

Vonne Solis  22:30  
Yeah.

Megan Bloom  22:31  
Where you let your body move. Nothing dramatic, nothing big, especially if you're haven't moved a lot. You know, you got to be really careful with your body and aware, but give yourself permission to start moving, really, for your own feeling of it. Not at all for what it looks like. You're not going to be going out on the town later, necessarily, because of that. You're doing this for yourself. Like you're doing this like you would take care of your personal hygiene. You're doing this to take care of your whole body.

Vonne Solis  23:00  
Yeah.

Megan Bloom  23:00  
And, you know, and then it's fun, in my opinion, because of, like, curiosity and wanting to kind of learn and be challenged to plug into some different, you know, offerings where you can maybe have community. Or even if it's like, like, one of the things I love to do is by sharing what I'm doing online, people are able to kind of have some guidance and help and ideas, but yet they're doing it from the privacy of their own home. 

Vonne Solis  23:25  
Yeah.

Megan Bloom  23:26  
So you don't have to go out right now and go to a dance party or, like an ecstatic dance party, or a community dance where there's a bunch of other people. I think sometimes it can be helpful to work some of how do I just feel good in my body.

Vonne Solis  23:40  
Yeah.

Megan Bloom  23:40  
When you're by yourself.

Vonne Solis  23:42  
Yeah. No, I think it's, you know, and you were, I want to just put a plug into your website, eternaldancers.com.

Megan Bloom  23:50  
Yes.

Vonne Solis  23:50  
Yeah. 

Megan Bloom  23:50  
Eternaldancers.com.

Vonne Solis  23:52  
And it's filled with joy. Like you have so many pictures and, you know, you dancing in all types of 

Megan Bloom  24:00  
Colour! 

Vonne Solis  24:00  
colour and, you know, dance photos and other things we'll get into, but it's just a joy to scroll through. And that's how I found your your minute long things, and they were just a joy to watch. And I'm listening carefully to what you're saying, and wondering what I'm willing to do. Because it takes nothing to carve out a few minutes, like you said, or two or three songs. And for those of us, I was, I used to play piano, so I also was in the music, and I stopped playing piano 20 years ago, but, and also, I didn't come here to play piano. You know what I mean? My mom was a pianist, so one of four children had to become a pianist, if you will. And it ended up sort of me that got to some level of it. But it's it's also understanding and what and I want to just revisit briefly here for those watching who love to dance and want to move, that's how I introduced it. For those who love to dance or just want to move more, Megan is your your instructor. It's just to remember we don't have to be perfect. And when you were talking about, you know, just moving your hips and that, it made me think that's why we rock our babies and our pets.

Megan Bloom  25:25  
Yes.

Vonne Solis  25:26  
You know, I don't have a pet, but I regularly see a little pup, and when I pick up that pup, that's the first thing I'm doing, is I'm rocking him, and that's the movement.

Megan Bloom  25:36  
Exactly. Or there's prayer practices where you're rocking as well, back and forth. And there's a lot. Like, it's how we kind of almost get out of our heads in many ways, and just focus on being, is by having some type of motion.

Vonne Solis  25:49  
Yeah.

Megan Bloom  25:49  
That's why we're always moving. Like, I feel like that's why I call all of us eternal dancers. Is that because if we're alive, we're breathing, and in breathing, we've got motion, and our bodies are definitely meant to move. Even if they've gotten really stiff, they're meant to move. And so we get to re-tap into that.

Vonne Solis  26:07  
Yeah.

Megan Bloom  26:07  
I guess possibility and like almost what we were meant. I always say it's about re-remembering what's innate in us. And innate in us is a great range of motion. And we have capacity to be very expressive and release. And really coming from like the somatic perspective, with dealing with trauma and all the hard things that happen in our life and dealing with grief is that there's so much that we can't process with our minds. It's too much to deal with, and it does get stuck in different body parts. And it manifests usually as different ailments and stiffnesses and things that become very physically painful and very uncomfortable. But it's amazing how we can move them out through movement. Like it's so almost so simple, as well as so empowering because I think there's so much of in the whole medical profession that has gotten where, you know, we need help from other people, but there's a lot of things we can do to help ourselves in, in whatever addition that we're doing, and try to deal with with our life. And that's where movement comes in from the ability to actually move through and work through pretty intense stuff with movement and breath. Because our breath is controlling our nervous system, which is controlling how we feel, the hormones and the chemicals that we're releasing, and so our breath and our nervous system and our heart are telling our brain almost how to respond. So if we can get our nervous system feeling much better and our heart feeling happier, then we're going to have a new perspective on life, which will empower us, invigorate us, and help us move through life's challenges that pop up. You know.

Vonne Solis  27:51  
I totally agree. For when, when you're talking I really see it as a release of energy. That if we don't release it and this work goes back decades, decades, decades, to many healers where energy that's not released in some form now, so it dances one way for sure. Massage, you know, it has to be a physical movement of that energy. Otherwise, it absolutely does turn into disease, illness and other forms of toxicity, that you have to do something with the energy. So why not dance people?

Megan Bloom  28:31  
Why not? Yeah, I know. I mean, I think, like, like, I heard it explained, like, tension to be sense, or to have, like, even, like, a really tight neck or something? That's taking a lot of energy actually, from your system. And so if you could actually allow yourself to move through that, get everything unwinding and moving, you'll actually have more energy in the rest of your life because you won't have to be sending so much of it to those areas in your body that just have to hold tight and stiff.

Vonne Solis  28:55  
I was just thinking, yeah, it's holding the that that toxicity and your attention is always being drawn to where it hurts and oh yeah, oh, that's so good.

Megan Bloom  29:08  
It feels frustrating and saddening and worry, and then you get angry at it. And instead, you can move that through, because then you don't want the frustration that this has happened to get also,

Vonne Solis  29:18  
 Yeah.

Megan Bloom  29:19  
stuck.

Vonne Solis  29:19  
 Yeah.

Yeah. So I'm just a nod to anyone who is bereaved out there who is having to learn how to free themselves from their bereavement and holding that pain in, which is expressing as rigidity in the body. And I've long known, known that. So one things I've been doing for the last couple years is exercising to music I absolutely love. And even though it's exercising, and I'm not talking major aerobics, I'm just talking leg lifts and things like that, but I'm really in the moment. So dance brings presence as well. Obviously, you would say Megan? And so, it's just you don't have to go out and knock yourself out and go to the dance floor and dance all night. This is a form of expression, and for me, maybe it can lead a little bit to practicing things that are a little bit more just dance, like dance expression. 

Megan Bloom  30:14  
Yes.

Vonne Solis  30:15  
I would need to follow cues, for sure. So I'm going to check out more on your website. Megan. I'm gonna give it another go and just see how I do with it as I start to loosen up a little bit, you know. So let's talk about your dance adventure journeys. What are they, and your inspiration for them?

Megan Bloom  30:34  
That's perfect for what we were just talking about. Yeah, the whole inspiration of my dance adventure journeys is to give people that guided support. So I consider myself less to be a dance instructor, but more of a guide. Like I guide you on your own journey. Because you're on an own journey of unfolding of what's going to happen, but you don't know how that you're not sure, still, often where you're wanting to go or what's going to happen along that way. And so what I've, what I create, and it's, I would say, kind of my gift. I get so excited, inspired about my art, in many ways, is creating a guided I call them dance adventure experiences, because I take you through, like, a whole arc, kind of like in a story. You know, how all of our stories are built? You know, we kind of have that intro. We have, you know, the you get to be involved in your story. There's a climax, then there's a wind down. And so with my movement adventures, I kind of do the same. So really helping you get centered in your body, which often comes from getting centered in your breath and finding that connection through your heart. Grounding down through the Earth, as well as connecting up through the heavens and then starting to let the movement start to come. And so then I will give cues to kind of help you along that way to be, like, now you can let your body start to softly sway. Meanwhile, I use music that's also kind of encouraging this dynamic to kind of let yourself start to move, because I feel like music plays a huge role in what we do, and then oftentimes I have a framework. 

So like, I've created dance adventure journeys that take you imaginatively to a specific place. Like this past spring, I created a dance adventure journey to go appreciate the cherry blossoms in Japan. So I kind of said, had everyone close their eyes. You know, kind of imagine you're on this flight. You're like a crane. You've landed here in the park with all these beautiful cherry blossoms everywhere. And we get centered, and we breathe into our heart. We get grounded, and then we start to move. And through the process of actually, and this guided adventure, it's on my YouTube channel, it's, it's, it's, it's all available. It's only about 15 minutes long. So a lot happens because I actually take you on a journey through Japan to appreciate cherry blossoms with different kind of movement quality dynamics. So in one you know it starts off much more mellow and slower motion, more swaying and moving your body. And it kind of builds and gets a little bit more like you could maybe you're going to want to jump around a little bit more. Maybe you're going to want to skip around. And then it kind of goes mellower again. I have a big reverent point where we get to Mount Fuji, and then there's a whole journey. And then at the end, I kind of bring you back into your body. And I also help people, I forgot to mention that, but set an intention before we get started, too. Like an intention of something that you kind of want to possibly work with in that experience.

Vonne Solis  33:33  
Yeah.

Megan Bloom  33:34  
Maybe it's something you want to bring in because you're letting go of something else. Like, instead of having an intention of getting, you know, unstressed. Instead, it's more like, I want to bring in a sense of peace or a sense of balance into my life. So working with that intention through that journey, and what I found is that it really helps people get through they're never in that moment where they're like, but what do I do next? Because I keep guiding them through that journey. And there's not, like, a big gap ever where you're like, I don't know what I'm doing. Also, I believe in, like, our ability to visualize and kind of see in pictures, or see in feelings. I know not everyone imagines with pictures. Some people might feel more or have emotions they can kind of feel or words. But I try to give different cues to support everybody and how they can imagine and interpret, and let that help dictate almost what your movement is. 

So if suddenly, now you're imagining you're now in a little boat going down a little stream, that's going to inspire you to move differently than if I was saying you're on you know, you're skipping down a orchard, or you're on a fast moving train. So I feel like all those cues play a huge impact. And so I've done that. I've done dance, travel adventures to different places as well as I really think it's powerful to help people connect with earth and nature.

Vonne Solis  35:00  
Yeah.

Megan Bloom  35:00  
Almost from a more of a, you know, all the benefits we experience spending time in nature, of oing to the forest, of going to the ocean. From a nature bathing, you know, perspective of just being one with nature. Well, bringing those feelings you feel like, into nature, into your movement as well, and almost relating our bodies to those natural elements. And so then I might create a dance journey adventure that kind of connects us to Earth. Whether it's like almost starting from the soil and moving and becoming into the tree and then going back into the river and back out into the ocean. And that journey gives your gives your experience, your mind can take a rest, because you're like, I'm just going to follow and kind of listen to what of listen to what she's saying, and your body intuitively knows. And so I'm kind of trying to give you that encouragement and that safe structure to work within.

Which I think is kind of unique and I, I've always just, like, been a very imaginative, creative person. I mean, I could get, like, a new cell phone, and you know, when you're deciding like, which ringtones to have your phone be? I would go through the phone and I would just like, do different ones, and then I would like, let that song inspire me in a movement. Be like, this one's got this personality, and this one could be this story. And I've always thought in like stories and movement, or I did a lot of volunteer ushering at a beautiful historic theater here, where I got to usher for like symphonies, a beautiful classical music. And for me, they would just come to life in like motion of stories with movement. And I kind of naturally, I think, think and create that way. And I really want to be able to share that with people, because I feel like it's a framework that can really help support people's unwinding experiences, especially when you're starting without any vocabulary. Without any idea of what to do. And I make it so that I'm not queing you to go leaping across the room or jumping or doing anything outrageous or physically intense. My goal is to create an experience for everybody's ability and that can be interpreted into what your body needs to be safe.

Vonne Solis  37:02  
Yeah. So a couple things. I now know why you have to move every day, because you've got to get that expression, everything into into the story. The other thing is, is, I think this is amazing, what you're doing, these journeys. Now, is all that on your YouTube channel?

Megan Bloom  37:19  
Yeah. So right now, I'm really in the mode of sharing and giving. So like, as much as I'm sharing, kind of every month, a couple, a couple different video episodes that are entirely based on a dance journey adventure, along with supporting people with some different ideas and kind of fundamentals for developing their own movement practice.

Vonne Solis  37:39  
Yeah.

Megan Bloom  37:39  
And then what I am working towards creating is I have a bigger library of more longer form sessions, which is like what I can do when I work with people one on one, is create a guided movement journey that's much longer, or weaves very specific and more personal details that they're working on into their journey. Well, I'm also creating, like a right now, like a little library of fuller movement sessions that take on different elements. Because I feel like anything that we're working on in our personal or professional life that's not related to movement, we can support with a movement practice. So if we're working on, you know, kind of in our life, trying to find more balance, figure out how to juggle all these different moving parts? We could work through some of that in a movement session.

Vonne Solis  38:24  
Of course, we can. 

Megan Bloom  38:25  
And so anything it could be that we're working on in our life, we can work with in a movement. So I love that part of it and that bridging it. And so yeah, so I do one on one coaching, where I create longer form sessions, and then I'm creating a library as well as a platform for having community, because I really believe in the power of community to support each other. And it's so meaningful to connect with kindred people who are on this idea and feeling excited about figuring out how to bring some movement into their life, and that that supportive space is so meaningful. So coming soon, I will be launching a platform. There'll be, like a membership platform, where I'll have my longer form sessions. There'll be varying lengths to be able to go in deeper as well as a community space. I'm really excited about that.

Vonne Solis  39:10  
Yeah. It sounds kind of It reminds me a little bit of, you know, after post covid, where people, oh, we can do yoga exercise on Zoom. So are you going to do it like that? Where your community is kind of a membership through video platform, and then you're instructing, and then everybody in their own space is following you, doing the same thing, more or less.

Megan Bloom  39:34  
It'll be a mixture. So like when you see my YouTube channel, you see that I get really excited about creating these little bit more in-depth movement journey adventures. Which, because we're moving through a lot of different dynamics, as well as music, I they're much more difficult to create, like, live, like, right, when I'm working with someone.

Vonne Solis  39:54  
Yeah.

Megan Bloom  39:54  
So there's something I can create when I'm not working with someone, like, in my own experience and then share this adventure. I also can lead a live experience. It can't, it's not usually quite as in-depth with a whole range of complexities. So on my platform, there's gonna be a library set that has all the different dance adventures that are a little bit more curated and crafted with some more different pieces involved. They incorporate the movement, the breath, work, visualization. I include, like, affirmations and stuff mixed into it that you're getting to kind of internalize an affirmation. Not just for your head, but for your whole being, because you're moving while doing those affirmations. And then I'll also do some live events where together, all at the one specific time, we'll be able to dance and move together. So a mixture of both is what I'm working towards. 

Vonne Solis  40:41  
Well, you know what? I'm again, I'm not in that world, but it sounds really progressive and and unique, and you're probably one of the few offering it. It can feel really lonely to be a pioneer, and you know you're, you're the one cutting the path in the forest. And this kind of, this kind of reminds me of it, because my work is very similar, right? I combine metaphysics with Grief Recovery, and I don't think there's recovery. I shouldn't say that, just with metaphysics and bereavement and and I'm an angel, you know, healer. I worked 10 years in that as an angel chalen channel, and so I thought that's my experience. Yours is the dance, but it's still, you're still cutting down the trees. Well, sorry, trees. No, we're not.

Megan Bloom  41:27  
No, we're not.

Vonne Solis  41:28  
No beautiful trees to create a...

Megan Bloom  41:30  
Just winding our path through the...

Vonne Solis  41:31  
through the forest, exactly. And and so I think it's amazing. And I will, I did take a really quick look at your YouTube. I didn't have, I will admit, I wanted to talk to be and I'm glad I did.

Megan Bloom  41:44  
Yeah, so,you'll really understand. 

Vonne Solis  41:46  
To look for on, on these, on the platform because there's some stuff there, like I would absolutely allow myself to try and experience your dance adventure journeys. 

Megan Bloom  41:59  
Yeah.

Vonne Solis  42:00  
Because I love visualization. I mean, I love that.

Megan Bloom  42:03  
Visual cues too. So like in my dance journey adventures?

Vonne Solis  42:06  
 Yeah.

Megan Bloom  42:06  
I'll be, I'm dancing, interpreting my expression of that moment. So you can see me on the screen moving as well. And then I also bring in a lot of footage of different things. So if we're in nature? There might be, I might on the screen you'll also be seeing, you know, soil, maybe plants growing. I really, I would say I'm a film artist too.

Vonne Solis  42:25  
Yeah.

Megan Bloom  42:25  
There'll be trees. Like or the stream or these dance adventures to other places like Japan or Ireland or Stonehenge for the summer solstice. I bring in footage of these places.

Vonne Solis  42:35  
When I do my coaching episodes, I have a dedicated coaching stream for largely millennials and a little younger, and I do the same thing. I narrate, but I create a film for them.

Megan Bloom  42:46  
Yes.

Vonne Solis  42:47  
Because there are people that are more impacted by the message when they can see an image.

Megan Bloom  42:54  
I think it's really powerful.

Vonne Solis  42:55  
I know. And then sometimes I'm like, you gotta stop it. But there's a reason for it, because I can't memorize everything I'm saying so I have a script, and then I love and, but I love creating. That's creation. 

Megan Bloom  43:07  
Yeah. Doesn't it feel so good for your heart and like your whole being just feels fulfilled?

Vonne Solis  43:13  
I get excited when I know I'm going to be creating something.

Megan Bloom  43:16  
Yes.

Vonne Solis  43:17  
And, but I didn't come to the world to be a painter. My mom was a multi-artist. Painter, musician, you know, gardener, cook, and, you know, a little bit of writing. And so when, when you come into the shadow of somebody who's so artistic, you know, I didn't really kind of look at my own artistry. And it, I would say the major reason I'm in, you know, my artistry channel would be writing. I came here to write, essentially.

Megan Bloom  43:50  
That's art. Yeah.

Vonne Solis  43:50  
Of course, it's art. But we, we tend to think art is something you visually create, but it's not. There are many art forms.

Megan Bloom  43:58  
Just like we tend to think dance is something that's supposed to look a certain way.

Vonne Solis  44:01  
Yeah.

Megan Bloom  44:01  
But it doesn't have to.

Vonne Solis  44:02  
Right.

Megan Bloom  44:02  
You kind of have to think the same thing happens to it.

Vonne Solis  44:05  
That's important that you said that. That's important. Anyway. I absolutely love dance. I'm checking out your YouTube channel. Gonna subscribe, and I'm gonna actually not force myself, but I'm going to allow myself and invite myself to explore and be curious about the music you pick. The stories you tell.

Megan Bloom  44:29  
They're very intentional.

Vonne Solis  44:30  
The guidance that you invite others to follow, to allow their bodies to express in a way that their body can and really wants to respond to. I, do you think our bodies respond to our mental and emotional, but more emotional, sort of, I don't want to say commands, but thoughts? And like so because we we've, if we're telling our body, you're saying, I'm just giving this as an example, move like a tree or bring yourself up from the ground. Well, somehow, is our body responding to our emotion, our emotions of what we're feeling when you when you say that? And the music?

Megan Bloom  45:09  
There's multiple things happen. I definitely think, like we have an idea, probably already in our mind about what that movement might look like. If we were supposed to sway like a tree, we might already have like a, almost like a pre-conceived thought of what that looks like. And so I think, yes, that comes into it. I obviously, I always encourage like, let's open up what that means, so that we're not stuck with just this kind of like, if you were ever asked to draw an apple. Like most people, will draw, like a classic little graphic apple that we kind of see represented like in almost a flat art, versus actually drawing something that looks more like a real apple. And so I encourage us with our movement too, to not think that, you know, moving like a cat always looks like this, or moving like a tree always looks like this. But yet, where else do we work with in these like things around us that are concrete, that we visually see or that we have feelings about? And so I feel like they're like little keys to kind of get us started on movement, even though, hopefully that's just the bouncing off place. And really, what we'll do is we'll start to trust our body to let us let's see what happens. And that's why everyone's interpretation is going to be different. That's why I really try to convey when I'm starting any of my adventures, is like, you're going to see me on the screen doing my version, my version today. Your movement is going to look completely this. You're going to do you, you're going to be original.

And that's, yeah, and then going back to, like, what I do. Yeah. I definitely feel like I blend, like, a whole bunch of the science of kind of understanding, like, what's actually going on in our bodies with a spiritual dynamic too, about just a very inclusive spiritual dynamic. As well as it just what has felt so good to me as someone who's like been a very, very curious learner, as well as a curious experiencer of things and of life. And someone who has, I do have a lot of, I exercise my imagination, I guess, yeah. And so if I can encourage others to be curious, I feel like, then we open ourselves up to having more different possibilities happen than if we think it's just supposed to be a certain way, then it kind of keeps us it doesn't, it doesn't open the gate to new possibilities occurring.

Vonne Solis  47:17  
Yeah. You know, one of the things that I just I sometimes get frustrated with but I also stay very intentional and inspirational to others is to have them be curious about themselves, for goodness sake. And so, because the way we respond, you know, when you were talking about the apple, and someone drawing an apple and or painting, or whatever, and I thought, Well, isn't that interesting? And what would you draw, Vonne? And of course, you know, my first reaction, would apple. But then I thought, Well, what about if you dissected that and took a minute and thought, and then maybe you would just draw a quarter of a slice of an apple.

Megan Bloom  47:55  
Right.

Vonne Solis  47:55  
You know? Or, 

Megan Bloom  47:56  
Yeah.

Vonne Solis  47:56  
something.

Megan Bloom  47:57  
Like you could do the same thing with your movement.

Vonne Solis  47:59  
Exactly. And so just because you and I are here talking about your dancing, it really, I was thinking the word for me is the creativity, and I know you use that - self-expression and creativity. It's just allowing ourselves to tap into what I believe everyone has a creative self. Everyone! And so many people lock it away or never find it, and that is our right brain. And our right brain is really what allows us to be emotional, compassionate and loving creature.

Megan Bloom  48:35  
Yeah.

Vonne Solis  48:35  
And I think that we need to, you know, more of us need and I'm talking in general terms, need to discover that. No matter how we express the creative part of us, that is the part of us that I think would give us an amazing humanity.

Megan Bloom  48:35  
Absolutely.

Vonne Solis  48:38  
Right?

Megan Bloom  48:49  
That's so powerful, yes, that you realize that because, like, you had just shared, like a little bit of a difficulty of being in your mother's shadow when she was so creatively diverse. But yet you realize and embrace that just because you don't have some of the same practiced artistic abilities as she did, doesn't make you not able to be creative.

Vonne Solis  49:16  
Exactly.

Megan Bloom  49:16  
Because you've you have been creative. You've adventured into your own individual creativity. And absolutely, that's like, it's the juice of life.

Vonne Solis  49:26  
Yeah. And the reason I brought that up is for people who, if maybe you are in a family, raised in a family, or in your current family, and there's one "artist" you know, already,

Megan Bloom  49:43  
Or "dancer"!

Vonne Solis  49:44  
Yeah. Well, I combine that all. I consider you an artist, all of it. Any, but from a creative and you go, Well, you know, no, I'm more of a left brain thinker, and I'm more of this, or just, you know, whatever, whatever. But given the chance, as I said, it's within all of us. And I actually would go a step further and say it produces a lot of frustration for people because they don't have an outlet for the creativity they haven't discovered.

Megan Bloom  50:10  
Exactly. That's why I call my platform eternal dancers, because it's tapping into that innate part. That part of us that is forever, that's who we are. That eternal nature of who we are.

Vonne Solis  50:21  
I personally think you might be a bit ahead of the game and the fact that you're doing this work pi, and I would almost say pioneering it. Do you think you're pioneering it?

Megan Bloom  50:31  
I think the blend of like truly blending from more of like a creative movement, dance improvisation side to somatic, more therapeutic practices mixed with some of the liberating, more conscious dance realm. All three of those are a little bit different from each other, and sometimes there's not a lot of crossover. Like people who enjoy more of the creative movement dance improvisation, would call it that, and they wouldn't really call it embodied movement, and vice versa. And I definitely, for me, they're all so wonderful and glorious and have so many gifts to offer that I've kind of melded them together. And for me, that's really works well. And I feel like for everyone I've worked with, that fusion is so helpful because there's so many healing and helpful, like, more supportive of our whole being that comes from the somatics. The embodied dance is really where we get to free ourselves up and be creative, just kind of unwind. But yet those creative movement and dance improvisation prompts give us that framework to actually get as far to have those other two things happen.

Vonne Solis  51:32  
And that's where you're different, is the prompts and the storytelling. And we know, we know we kind of got that where we're going, compass and Okay, instead of just it being well do whatever. And then most people, well, I won't say most people, I'm like, no, no, not for me. It's too it's too much. It was too much. I don't know where I'm going. So I love that, love that, love that about your work. Megan, we are going to talk a little bit as we agreed, you are a tiny house dweller.

Megan Bloom  52:04  
I do. I have a travelling tiny house on wheels. So, yeah, it's a 30 foot tiny house on wheels, and I live in slow travel, a full time with my mom. My mom and I are best friends, and we decided to go on in on this together. We're coming around five years now, actually. And at first it was like, how could we ever go tiny? I mean, that's it's tiny compared to even having a small house. But the freedom that has opened up and the being able to see places that we'd always dreamt of, kind of getting to go visit, is now made so much easier by getting to go travel and actually make that place home. So that part's been really liberating. I would say I absolutely adore life, you know, of getting to kind of be at home in different places, even though there is compromises. The biggest thing, and actually something that has made me who I am now is the tiny house.

When we first got into our tiny house on wheels, it was like I felt like everything had shrunken down all around me. I mean, literally, we had a smaller house. And, with your things and your kitchen and different things that all got worked out, if you're smart and savvy with how you build, you know, a tiny house. You know, places for everything. But literally, my biggest movement space was a five foot by five foot space, so like, less than two meters, and so a very small space. Now a little bit wider, like a little over two meters or seven feet, from side to side in a certain spot, but I felt like, at first I couldn't move. I was like, okay, I can do stretching, and I can try to just keep that exercising going, but I didn't feel like I could dance.

Yeah. 

And at first I was like, well, I'll find spaces on the road to be able to move around, but then they']re always in you know, public. We were still kind of coming out of Covid. There was challenges. Now I do love dancing outside in nature, so I was doing some nature dancing, but I felt like I couldn't dance in my home. And that started to really wear on me. And I would say, it's hard to believe, but there was a time where actually, like dance, I almost couldn't say it without feeling like I had lost something or given that up because of our tiny house. And it was really, like, it was really, it was really difficult. I was definitely, like, excited, and so, so excited and grateful about how everything was kind of coming together, but the dance part felt like it was missing. 

And then it just, I would say, with the support of my mom, my best friend, it was like, but you're a dancer. Like you can figure this out. And I would say there was something that part of me, because I know that I'm an eternal dancer that said, I gotta figure this out, and I gotta get creative. And I did. I started like figuring out how I could move within such a small space and still feel like I could be expressive and improvisational in the moment and yet not like whack my arms or feet into cupboards or stairs or refrigerator and stuff like that. And what has come is I feel like sometimes, like my house is getting bigger and bigger, even though it's not physically because I can do so much in it. And what's fun is like, for anyone who checks out the eternal dancers YouTube channel, most of my videos, if they're taking place indoors and they're not outside in nature, they are in my tiny, tiny house.

Vonne Solis  55:21  
Because it looks like a loft.

Megan Bloom  55:22  
That's like the main floor, and we have glass sliding doors that are really fun and allow for kind of expansion of air. And actually the when, by the time this podcast airs, I will have shared an episode that goes more in-depth of my tiny house. And I actually show you this is my space. You'll get to see all around it. So check that out. But yeah, it's, it's the main floor. So I have, like, a five foot by five foot area that's totally open. I can move some, well, I have to move a couple things. I have to move this little stairs and the shoe bench if I want to have that space. And I do that for all my my main teachings and my different recordings and such.

Vonne Solis  55:59  
Right.

Megan Bloom  56:00  
And then I also have a galley kitchen. And the galley kitchen's just over two feet wide, really, but I have found I could do so much movement in that. And in many ways, I've made parts of the house, like the physical, you know, counters and stuff, almost be like a dance partner in that. Like, instead of them feeling like I have to be careful. I'm almost like nervous to get too close to these different things, or I'm frustrated that they're there instead of being like, I gotta work with you. I gotta work with you inanimate objects to be something safe.Create you being a safe partner in my environment. 

Vonne Solis  56:32  
Yeah.

Megan Bloom  56:32  
And that's been so empowering, because I feel like that really opened my personal experience up to realizing that how much more even movement can be in my everyday life. Because if I can even dance in this very, very small space and have it be liberating and an incredible, rejuvenating spiritual experience, then that means I can dance anywhere. And I would say too, that's made me more stronger at helping other people, because lots of people have very small spaces.

Vonne Solis  57:00  
 Yes.

Megan Bloom  57:00  
 And honestly, you can still move around, even if it's a very small space.

Vonne Solis  57:05  
Yeah and that's why I brought it up. That and, and we're going to end because we're at the top of the hour here, but we're going to end with also, so I just want to say this. We're going to end with you just talking about any other lessons you've learned from tiny house living, because we have to get rid of our baggage the more we scale down, downsize. And I got it down to 903 square feet for two people.

Megan Bloom  57:34  
Yeah.

Vonne Solis  57:35  
But I have been absolutely so fascinated with tiny house living for about three years now, and because it represents a certain type of freedom that you're living. And I think I emailed this to you, and you know you're living, and you know it, it doesn't trap you in anything, but it takes a special kind of person to number one, jump into that type of living. It's not for everybody.

Megan Bloom  58:05  
No, it's not.

Vonne Solis  58:06  
And I'm not at a stage in my life where I would do well, you know, moving around. But it's still the same idea for anybody out there watching this fascinating and I will be, your episode is going to be airing last week of August, and we are going to put a link to your YouTube channel in the notes for this episode, Megan, but also they can access it from eternaldancers.com. Your website.  So just if you could leave us with thinking about downsizing. So two things, you dancing in a five by five space, I certainly can dance in my living room. And other people can find a five by five space, or a two by two space, or sit in a chair, because you also do movement when for people who are are wanting to be a little bit more mobile, well, mobile in terms of moving, but sitting in a chair. So you do work with that, which I'm very impressed by.

So yeah, just as we hit this top of the hour, what would you like to leave? I mean, this is being jam-packed with information, but I think the major messages have been shared here. And we've touched just about everything at a, I think, even deeper than a surface level, just by getting to the point of what, what all of this stuff is. But what would you like to leave the audience with, and and also, if we missed anything that you wanted to talk about, to share that as well with us now?

Megan Bloom  59:41  
I think, I think my key is that whatever happens to us, like physically or things that we're taking on, and so for me, it was like taking on a tiny house, which required doing something very new. Learning how to do things. Definitely being brave, being able to kind of deal with different things that pop up and all the roadside dynamics. That for me was like physically what was happening. But what I needed to deal with more on an internal scape was the same thing, and how I could process that was through, ultimately doing movement. So how do you know, as people, we're, you know, hopefully, we're all wanting to kind of grow and keep learning and and becoming more and more connected with our whole selves. And so whatever we're working on in our life, you know, whether it's in our businesses or whether it's in our family or relationships or personal, we can, we can weave that into some, you know, movement practices. Or, you know, meditation or visualization time and I kind of combine all that together to, I think, support what we have to deal with out in the rest of the world.

It's almost like whatever you're working on out there, you can kind of bring in to your own space, and only, even if it's just for that five or 10 minutes per day, and almost let yourself by being in the moment. Maybe setting that intention for what you're working on out in the rest of your life, you can use your movement as almost a therapeutic, healing practice, to kind of give yourself back that oneness that honestly helps you go back out whatever it is that you have to take care of and figure out you feel more centered doing you know to hand, how you're going to handle it. Maybe you'll suddenly have an inspired idea that will be what you were waiting for. Maybe you'll feel just a little bit more creative. Maybe you'll feel more empowered. You'll feel a little bit more like you matter and that you're ready to go show up. And our movement practices have the power to kind of connect all that we're working towards in our physical lives, our spiritual lives, our mental lives. It's almost a way for us to kind of wrap that all up, understand it, and show up for ourselves and those we care about. So use movement as a self care and a healing, uh, practice, because it it is like unlimited what...

Vonne Solis  1:02:00  
Yeah.

Megan Bloom  1:02:00  
what can come from that which requires being curious. You got to be curious and open to possibilities. Because you never know, and sometimes you might move and okay, that felt good, but I don't feel anything like, I don't feel transformed. That's okay. Do it again tomorrow, and maybe tomorrow, you'll feel transformed. If not, all of it collectively is, is giving yourself that time and that presence. So, you're worth it, to give yourself that time to move, to just unwind and...

Vonne Solis  1:02:25  
Yeah.

Megan Bloom  1:02:25  
and I like to say, call yourself an eternal dancer because you have that mover inside of you that wants to move and express and be creative. And by naming it, you say you're worthy of that. And you're special, and I'm going to give you some time to unwind. And I don't know what's going to happen, but I'm going to be present for that part of me that needs to move. And I think that's a gift that we can give ourselves that has, like, super life changing, you know, impact.

Vonne Solis  1:02:53  
Yeah. One thing that came to me, the one thing I'm going to take away from this is, well, a lot of things I'm going to take away. But when you were talking it just it was like, it's giving, the movement is giving people who are going to dare to go on this journey, or be excited to go on this adventure journey, but giving themselves permission to just simply feel and feel it all. And because I would, I would imagine certain movement, certain music, can really bring up some raw pain and trauma and things like that. But as you face it, you release it.

Megan Bloom  1:03:33  
 Yes. 

Vonne Solis  1:03:33  
And what better way to release it, but as an eternal dancer folks?

Megan Bloom  1:03:37  
Absolutely. So yes, I would love, I love reaching out, and like connecting with people, too. So if you comment or send me a message, I always respond. So say hello. Yeah, I love to connect people and help kind of extend that feeling of love and safety that we can offer each other.

Vonne Solis  1:03:53  
Alrighty. Well, I'm going to subscribe to the YouTube. Check it out, and as I said, be an eternal dancer. So thank you so much, Megan. This has been just really inspiring, actually, and uh yeah, just brought a smile to my face. And I'm just very, very happy and honoured that you came to be a guest on my podcast. So thank you.

Megan Bloom  1:04:17  
Well, thank you so much for having me.