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Fran Willems

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Revealing the Art of the Heart ♥︎
𖦦 ✺ Intuitive Guidance @connect_to_your_cor.e_

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I usually make a video in one go though this time I felt a contraction in my body, around my stomach. So I stopped recording.
Instead of ‘pushing through’ I went outside, sat with the trees and had a little cry.
Hands on my body, listening with care.
Okay, I hear you..what’s happening here?

Then I made this video with a clumsy construction on my loafers, the sun beaming in my eyes, looking like a high butterfly who’s had one too many figs.
Deliciously imperfect and ridiculously long for a reel, I know.
We used to study for hours and now a reel over 2 min is too long or boring?
Try my voice notes, they turn into podcasts as smoothly as butter melts on pancakes.

It’s scary to be seen in the full authentic process of holding space and growing a ‘business’, in the charm and challenge of it.
To share passion projects that are so close to the heart and essential values.
To be held accountable by life and love and leadership.
To invest various resources without knowing the outcome or response.
The first time offering something different than the usual feels quite ‘exposed’; plus in a “new” city environment that feels slightly intimidating yet so sexy and exciting.
Dipping your toes in those liberating edges.

For me, visibility (feeling/being seen in truthful versions of self) still feels quite vulnerable.
It’s as if I’m standing naked, on a soul level rather than the physical.
Yet as Rainer Maria Rilke says “ultimately it is on our vulnerability we depend”.
And the courageous heart is the one that is unafraid to open to the world.

I aspire to be as authentic as my capacity can embody as a space holder, creative being, heart guide… as a human.
To create safe places for exploration and learning.
Learning to be truthful and speak with the most genuine voice, even if that voice is trembling.
Learning to be witnessed and still loved in the embrace of full belonging, bullshit and beauty included.
Learning to be intimate through vulnerability, exploring new pathways of connection.

That said, you are warmly welcomed to the day workshop that my friend Jessica and I are weaving with wonder and a heart felt sens by @franwillie

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6 days ago

Heart body and belly are alive and full with inspiration from last week’s movement workshops

Letting it slowly land in layers

Playing around w different principles

Can we enjoy exploring the language of our own unique body blueprint
.. and allow that together we can enrich each others vocabulary?
.. isn’t that what life is about?

No right or wrongs

Just a conversation of care & curiosity

Some nuggets for you to experiment with

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How can you move your chest, ribcage.. as a connected structure with your spine?

What is the distribution / engagement of your weight with the earth? The subtle interaction with element of space around you?

Where is your centre?
Where is your attention?

Do you move from within or without?

Which body parts are leading the impulse?
Which ones are waiting for you?

What is your rhythm, pace?

How does it feel to be more dynamic?
To slow down?

Eyes open, closed?

Are you still breathing ?

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E x h a l e &. S m i l e :) by @franwillie

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2 months ago

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Deep down we all want to connect (right?)

So how can we be more curious and compassionate and view our adult relationships with those fresh bubbly child like eyes

Recommend this read so far;
it’s made me laugh out loud every chapter, how silly and similar the ways we can all get tangled in our own narratives
Alongside a sense of validation for our storylines nuanced features

Humour is so essential in relation to life’s absurdities

Where can you adjust your frame and let a little more sunshine in 🌞💛🌞

Filia pola x by @franwillie

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3 months ago

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.. als je van beren leren kan 🐻

The last few weeks have felt like an intense body scrub

Mind loops sticky and slimy like peanut butter noodles

Lots of insightful reflection.. though right now, just wanting to share the JOY oozing through my bones

If you feel or have felt the funk .. you are not alone

We’ve got this

Put on a nostalgic song and get your boogie on

ENJOY being goofy today 🌞 by @franwillie

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5 months ago

Scorpio vibe still on 🖤

..Art is a mess baby
Let it drip..

Drop the fake furry layers and unleash your most truthful prayer

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Some juicy power words composed by Christopher Sexton by @franwillie

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5 months ago

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How can we let the monkey explore?

Invitation to explore rather than trying to “fix” next time you are facing something challenging

Everything is “simply” information.. fertiliser for our fruitful soil

Accepting exactly where you are now as a wholesome human
..
moving forward with curiosity, courage and little bit of that crazy child attitude

Let spring in all its glory tickle you into movement from momentum, rather than forcing with “willpower” and self judgement

Freedom is waiting just around the corner to play, to dance, to groove to our heartbeat

So let’s get our boogie on and make this a fun trip 🪩 by @franwillie

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6 months ago

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Invitation that popped in today..

Next time someone asks you “how are you?” “How are you feeling”

Rather than the automatic “yes I’m fine”..

Let the response be explored and expressed through your body, the senses

Your voice (sound)
Your muscles, bones, fascia (movement)
Your hands (drawing, painting..)
…

The biggest part of communication is non verbal, through the language of our intelligent bodies

So.. try this one to one, or in group / circle setting

Creativity invites a softening, a curiosity, a more vulnerable invitation towards connection

May this create a more gentle, truthful way of communion in challenging times

Let it also be your wild card to be playful and silly like children

Laugh, let life smile back at you
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I am creating a group offering, exploring the world of our imagination & creative ways to dive into our inner landscape using BodyMindCentering principles

Excited to share more on this soon x by @franwillie

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6 months ago

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Sharing a letter of gratitude (recorded in cheeky Chepstow) and reflections on holding a generous heart

On some menstrual bleeds, I feel the gravitational pull of old stories and revealing voices

Yesterday was one of those days

Went a bit like this in my ethers..

“Who really enjoys my company?”
“What do I do (wrong) to make people feel repulsion towards me?”
“Why do some people suddenly no longer sense the value of my presence?”

Harsh questions, tight answers
Lonely heart

That’s when rituals, years of meditation practice, self care resources, support systems … etc come in and show the fruits of long lasting labour

It’s so vital to build anchors of trust, truth and love
To allow ourselves to receive from community
To connect to our needs and honour them through consistent caring actions
And to pass this on towards every other

Words that feel very palpable right now (to me) are

Honesty & generosity

How can we be fully honest with one self and others, holding our fears whilst staying present with what is wanting to be expressed?

How can we hold a generous heart, towards ourselves .. again and again and again ..
towards others.. finding softness and spaciousness in the invitation(s)

Pfoeh

The expansion of heart feels real and raw and sweet like honey

It’s my wish that we continue to grow more capacious to hold each other with the most generous patient heart, rooted in the purity of presence
..
Keep lighting up the sky with your soft, yet strong S M I L E

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Idea - invitation for you

Write a letter of gratitude to yourself, record it, listen to this whenever you need to hear your own heart truth

Suggest to move, breathe, browse in nature to enable this communication

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Questions for you

What rituals and resources sustain and anchor your heart, your body, your tender complex mind?

What is your go to “coping” mechanism to find a way out to numb / avoid / control / …?

What supports you to return to connection within, to ground in safety?

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Please share freely in comments or private message, we are here to learn and inspire this exchange of valuable knowledge and wisdom
🫶🏻 by @franwillie

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6 months ago

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Your reminder from the blue skies to balance the sunny passion of fire with some gentle nourishing rest

Connect to your beautiful body of water

There is strength in stillness too

X
Love from me and these wise angel bowls by @franwillie

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6 months ago

Feeling tension, stress, stickiness?

Just look at animals and do the same

I kid you not, we can learn a lot from these precious beings

Invite your children to join you when they are feeling upset, be curioussss & play

🌼💛🌼

Horse breath hugs from me & Vimento by @franwillie

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6 months ago

Some wise words by Rilke, in my mother tongue this time

Live your questions, befriend patience .. maybe you aren’t fully ready to embody the answer yet

So in the ethers of the inbetween, live your questions

Be curious
Be honest
Be brave

Let them guide you into a direction and just move, dance .. step by step

One day, before you know it.. the answer will arrive in your heart and be a lived experience

We are very much in this together xx

Big love from me & the animals 🫶🏻

FYI it was challenging to focus on reading whilst Spyke (the smallest dog) was licking my toes 😆 by @franwillie

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6 months ago

... freedom is where love and fear meet and start to dance 🪩💜

Took me a while to gather the courage, confidence, capacity to hold myself

My heart has been gasping for air underneath all the ashes,
protective armour getting to heavy to wear and a soft voice growing so loud there was no way around letting go of my hair

This insatiable thirst to live fuller, to see myself through and through until nothing but truth looks me in the eyes

To love every inch of what I see and sense in the reflection
Beyond the “pretty blond hair, long legs”..

Just raw and real without distractions

Simplicity is a humble honest gift

Thank you to Anouk & Ozzie for helping and holding me in your home and heart cocoon,
I laughed my ass off and love you both to bits

Thank you to my dad for taking this photo and acknowledging me as a woman

My heart is full and glowing
Ready to birth some deeply seated dreams

Here’s to a fresh slate,
a new cycle of life in this crazy human world by @franwillie

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