Covid Blog Day 132 – Dancing The Crown Chakra

Last week I danced The Crown Chakra “Sahasrara” and what a journey that has been. This is known as the violet chakra (or sometimes some identify it as white) and this is my 7th blog on dancing the chakra energy system. The Crown Chakra resides at the top of your head as a spinning energy vortex that connects the physical body with your higher self, your soul, your life mission, the universe, God and celestial energy. Whatever you believe, this is the entry way to seeing yourself in a different way, accessing your spiritual self and awakening. It is responsible for our connection with the universe and feeling an interconnectedness and oneness with all. It is a connection to our sacredness and spirituality.

“On an emotional level, the Crown Chakra generates devotion, inspirational and prophetic thought, mystical connections and transcendental ideas.” YogiApproved.com

Growing up in Canada, I would say we are not the most spiritual culture on the planet. On the contrary, perhaps we lack spirituality. Growing up, I had a friend in school that went to Catholic Church but it was more an Italian family culture than something they chose themselves. In high school, I had a protestant friend who had me go to several youth group functions and church on Sundays. It was all ok! I would say my father went from atheist to agnostic in recent years, but my mother was spiritual. She grew up in a Catholic school but as an adult chose Bahai as her faith. She never interfered with my spiritual journey, encouraged me to seek for myself and left it up to me to decide for myself. I have always believed in a higher source and actually have no trouble believing in a force, reincarnation, karma or even the existence of other dimensions.

I believe that some people have keen extra senses, superpowers and can wield energy. It all seems very logical to me. Many flamencos are hugely psychic when it comes to energetic sensation and timing in a performance. Many inexplicable, incredible things happen in performance that can never be rehearsed. I would say we are highly trained auditory musicians that can respond instinctually and instantaneously.

My violet altar with amethyst, crystal quartz and selenite stones.

Anyway, growing up in Canada, I would say, hmmm, perhaps this chakra is going to be a tad elusive. And I was right. Upon first try on a Monday morning with this Chakradance, I pretty much sat there. Nothing. I even set up some decorations in the corner of the room to inspire myself with a violet space vintage batiks from my grandmother’s days in Malaysia and set up my new skookum crystal gem stones. But nope. I won’t lie. The Crown Chakra stumped me. I danced nada. The music had NO rhythm, NO melody, NO harmony and as a highly percussive and auditory person, I think my brain was looking for a pattern. Something. Anything. But no! There was nothing to respond to. I sat eagerly on the floor in a cross-legged meditative position, waiting for inspiration, but nothing came except a creeping uncomfortable sensation that I was missing something. Brain racing to grasp something, anything! It’s ok, just breathe. Inhale, exhale. Repeat. I had to take comfort in imagining gold glitter raining onto my head, surrounding me and creating white light. The music finally stopped after what felt like an eternity.

Hmph!!!

No wayyyyy. Totally skunked.

Insert profanities.

I couldn’t even draw a mandala.

Well, *)&^.

I needed a new plan. Well, Karen Nickason has been calling me in for reiki treatment for quite some time on Facebook. Who’s Karen? She used to be named Karen Boothroyd and she was the first flamenco dancer I ever sat next to in professional performance. She was the first Kino Café dancer. Yes, Vancouver’s Kino Café (3456 Cambie Street) has the notoriety of being the first and longest standing flamenco tablao across Canada for over 27 years now. This venue was started by “Los Canasteros” and back in the 1990s, included guitarist Peter Mole, singer Lolo (yes, “Chiriboom” rumba) and the peppy dancer, Karen. She was well known for dancing a soulful seguiriyas and for the famed for Kino’s “palmas workshop”. We kept in touch over the years and have been friends on Facebook for many years. I guess she has been watching my Chakradance journey unfold on social media and has on occasion called me in to try a reiki treatment. I ignored this request for a while because…Reiki. What’s Reiki? Yes, I vaguely know reiki, like reiki, the idea of reiki.

Divine Grace Holistic Health with Karen Nickason

Well, not dancing the Crown Chakra was the final straw! Ok, I’ll go for a reiki treatment. Maybe I need to balance and align my chakras and simply check if I have those.

So I went the next day. It was a grand reunion at her studio in Langley. We talked about flamenco dance & the gold ol’ days, our career paths today, these new pandemic times, my Chakradance journey, the chakras, energy healing, angels, tarot and many stories about life. It turns out after flamenco and having her own dance studio, she was called to energy healing and has had a transformative journey as a reiki master, channeler, past life regressionist, clearing energy and more. It is hard for me to understand all the things she mentioned, but she has been on a spiritual journey and path as an empathic healer and has a clear connection to spirit, source, the universe. Whatever you would like to call it, it is clear that she has some skillZ.

Not knowing what to expect, I hopped up on the table and Karen called in some higher help including the archangels and ascended masters. It was all great until she said my mother just walked in to help. Oh no, tears rolling down cheeks. How did she know about my mom?

It was a 2 hour session and without going into detail, an energy clearing for each chakra starting with the crown, going down through third eye, throat, heart, solar plexus, sacral and root chakras. Interestingly she said I was holding sadness in my legs and the feet chakras were blocked so she spent a lot of time in that area. Honestly, I feel myself very strong in my legs and honestly, if you looked at my calves, you would understand. I had no idea there were chakras in your knees and feet to be unplugged! Well, that makes sense. It has been 132 days of pandemic times and I haven’t danced a performance yet. Yes, I am sad about it because there is no way to know when we are able to go back to live performance, when I can have my guest musicians in Canada again and turn on the performance power.

Spiritual Healing An Innate Therapeutic Technique

Sigh.

I was not able to really relax through the 2 hour reiki session. Karen said I was very “thinky” and I didn’t really relax until over an hour into it. Yes, well, I am analysing what is happening. I didn’t “feel” anything physical per se, so it is hard to know what was occurring. At the end, she let me pick out a tarot deck out of many on a wood table. I don’t have much experience with tarot, it was something to play with kids from school. Ok. I’ll go with it. I picked Angel deck. She said pick a card. I said, “I don’t know, which one?” She said, “Don’t think about it, just use your intuition and choose.” Ok. I picked Angel card. She immediately went to her bookshelf with dozens and dozens of books from channeling to reiki, from astrology to angels. Angel books. She showed me 4 or 5 to lend out. Ok. I picked “Angel Therapy” by Doreen Virue.

Angels. I failed to mention that I have been seeing repetitive numbers since January 2019 starting with the number 444. I had to pay attention to that one because in Chinese, 4s are majorly bad because they mean “death”. I kept seeing that number and it was a clear message because of the sheer number of repetitions I would see day to day. I finally googled it and found that 444 is an angel number that signifies “pay attention”. By February 2019, I started seeing 1111s, followed by 222s, 333s, 555s, 777s, 888s, 999s, 666s. It was interesting that these angel numbers were unfolding in sequence like this. (For anyone that sees triple or quadruple numbers, you can google the meaning of these angel numbers to decipher the messages.) By the end of the year 2019 and early 2020 variations of 1919, 9191, 999 which means “the end or finish” and then 000 which means “infinite”. I simply know that these numbers are not sheer coincidence. There were just TOO MANY. Clearly it is Synchronicity, not coincidence, you would just have to be daft to believe it was nothing. The numbers unfolded in a very specific sequential order and with an incessant frequency. This is communication. The numbers follow me wherever I go. I have told this to almost everybody I know, nobody knows what these triple and quadruple numbers are. This year my mother passed away January 2020 and the numbers 1111 continued along with the 44s: 144, 244, 344, 444, 544, 644, 744, 844, 944, 1044, 1144, 1244, 1644. There are things we cannot explain…this whole pandemic year for instance.

It was a great visit with Karen. Heading home, I thought that it was pretty incredible to travel from North Van to Langley and have a whole experience outside of my regular life. You don’t have to travel very far to have an extraordinary experience.

I didn’t Chakradance again until Friday. Since I was not able to dance “anything good” (haha) on Monday, I felt a bit of dread. I decided to really prepare. “Surrender”, founder of Chakradance, Natalie Southgate says. Ok, ok, surrender…I don’t really know how since most of the time I am in attack mode. First thing in the morning before interacting with anyone, I spent time in silence in my studio. Then I did the Chakradance visualization meditation mp3. Then I spent more time focusing on long inhale-exhales, grounding myself and envisioning all the chakras glowing. More deep breathing. More meditation. Ok. I’m ready. I put on the Crown Chakradance, did the warm up and danced the quick 7 series, but when I got the Crown Chakradance, the high pitched music began. I just simply sat down cross-legged style. Again, with no bass beats and no rhythm or groove, I just sat there. I am not sure why but in this moment, I thought to myself to invite all my angels and said, “Please, I would like to meet you and know all of your names now.” I am not sure what made me do that, I had never done it before. I thought I might meet 1, 2 or 3 angels, maybe friendly guardian one. As I sat there with eyes closed, I “felt” names come to me one after another. After 6 names, I said, “Wait wait, I need a pen.” Then names started pouring onto my page and look.

Angels who identified themselves during the Crown Chakradance.

Please keep in mind I know nothing about angels and this is all new right now. In this moment, I just started crying. It was overwhelming to come to the dawning realization that I have a lot of help and backup. I had never stopped to think about it. Until this moment, I kind of thought we were all alone here. Clearly, this is absolutely not the case.

Then the music ended.

What?

What was that?

What happened?

After 2 weeks I’m still trying to sort that out. I haven’t been able to make that experience happen again, so I believe I was in some kind of altered state when the names came forth and pouring onto the page. I was “in the zone”. The breaths were very deep, deeper than I have ever done, perhaps 10-12 second inhale and 10-12 second exhale.

What was that? How did I do that?

I don’t know.

At the time of this writing which is now 2 weeks later, I question if that happened at all but I have the list of names and my scribble to prove it. It was Real. I told a couple close friends when it was happening, so I have verification that this all actually happened.
I am blogging this because regular daily life just resumes. I originally did not think I would blog this on my flamenco page because let’s admit it, this is weird and out of the mainstream. Anyone who knows me personally knows I am not overly spiritual and heck, I don’t cry. Nonetheless, I am happy to share this blog with whomever feels compelled to read my first time journey. There will never be another “First Time”, so I felt like it was important to share.

There you have it. This is the finale and #7 of my Blog Series on Dancing the Chakras. The Violet Crown Chakra is the 7th and final dance.

I drew this mandala two days after the angel list.

My crown chakra mandala.

As a person who spends most time as a Chinese Tiger Mom to two small children and as a serious career dancer, artist, mentor, motivator, instructor and community builder of a whole flamenco community here in Vancouver, BC, Canada, I can attest that this Chakradance journey is absolutely profound…if you are open to it. You will be able to access parts of yourself that are hidden. You might discover gifts you didn’t know you ever had. It is about bringing your unconscious to a conscious level. It is about a Soul Journey. It is about unlocking hidden emotions. This is not just exercise. One might go in thinking, “oh wow, cool, let’s Chakradance”, thinking that this is like Zumba or aerobics or recreational dance.

You Are Wrong.

This journey will unfold in untold, unpredictable ways. You will have to face yourself, and subsequently heal yourself. New worlds, new doors will open. We can lie to other people and get away with it, perhaps…but we cannot lie to ourselves. When we Chakradance, we journey into each chakra, expose our emotions to ourselves, bring our issues into consciousness and only then can we grow. This dance is not for kids! If you are an adult with emotional baggage, trauma, depression or even if you believe yourself to be healthy, well and balanced, you might take a look at Chakradance and give it a 9 week go to discover the depths of yourself. Especially by middle age, we have decades of baggage and one will eventually have to open each bag up, take a look at its contents and and deal with. You will be able to explore and this is a whole new world of discovery without having to travel.

Final photo of all my mandalas from 7 weeks of Chakradance.

Oops, wait, we’re in a pandemic, you can’t fly anywhere anyway. Yea, right, this is totally boring right now. Right…so…Chakradance?

In a few weeks, I will be a Chakradance Facilitator and welcoming this new aspect to my life. I will be your guide through dancing each of the chakras.

What about Flamenco?

What about it!!?! Get to class! I’m still your lower chakra Warrior Flamenco Tiger Mom.

LOL.

But you know, I think I am something else for you too.

When the student is ready, the master appears.

End of Chakradance blog series.

During my 9 weeks of Chakradance, I discovered the power of crystals and their associating vibrational frequencies. Bottom to top: selenite, smoky quartz, garnet, carnelian, Amber, malachite, sodalite, amethyst, crystal quartz. And a couple fancy biggies left crystal quartz, right angelite!

“Dancing The Crown Chakra, Sahasrara”

North Vancouver, BC, Canada.
July 20, 2020
Day 132 pandemic

About The Author

Kasandra “La China”
Flamenco Dancer and Instructor, Director, Producer, Choreographer

Kasandra is one of Canada’s leading flamenco artists well-known for her unrelenting drive to push the artistic envelope. A tirelessly ambitious artistic director, soloist and prima bailaora, Kasandra is always hungry for new sources of inspiration and knowledge, constantly pushing her musical and choreographic mastery to its limits. She has been identified as “Vancouver’s flamenco star who has embodied flamenco with her dynamic, precise style” by Flamenco-World magazine. Read More