Quantcast
Channel: Leela Francis
Browsing all 13 articles
Browse latest View live

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

My sadness Wants Stillness

If you know me at all you know I love to dance and I’m always going on about how healing and life transforming dance is . My story is profound evidence of that. I rigorously trained in dance as a child...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

We Don’t Say Good By

I’ve spent much of the last 2.5 years courting my mother through the end of her life. Besides making peace with letting her go, I’ve been dancing with the reality of cancer touching one so close to me,...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

After the Loving- the Integration

Have you ever returned from a training and expected everyone else to have changed and grown up? I know I have. It came up in a Sister circle call yesterday after the lastest Sacred Sensual Splendor...

View Article

The Crest of Intimacy

Intimacy is one of those things that no matter how connected we are to another human being, remains a tenuous place of risk and discovery. Risking intimacy, and then finding out that we are still loved...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Sweating is Sexy

I just landed back at my Mexico paradise where I live 6 months each year. As if the beauty, warmth, lushness, fresh fruit and spending 24/7 outdoors barefoot weren’t enough, I just remembered another...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

I’m Not Ageist

I’m all about agelessness, but that doesn’t mean I’m down on aging, or that I live in denial of aging, or that aging is bad. I’m not ageist! Heck, in fact if turning 50 was this good, I’m all for...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

I’m Bi, and I’m Coming Out!

Enough with all or nothing, having to choose one side or the other. I’m coming out! I’m bi. Bi-nutiritional that is! That’s right, I eat raw and cooked food. Gasp! I live from day to day listening...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Forgiveness Cleanse

How do you relate to food and eating? When you eat something not on your “diet”, do you call that cheating, when you feed your sweet tooth, is that indulgence, when you stray from your “proper” eating...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The Holy Medicine of Your Body

I’ve struggled with bouts of depression and anxiety since my teens. Born into a culture where both are common, yet still so misunderstood and mistreated, I was blessed to discover the holy medicine of...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Body Dreaming

When we sleep, our minds dream. Subconcsious material rises to the surface so we can let it go and get free. When you dance, do yoga, move authentically and expressively, that is your body dreaming....

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Feel’n Kinky? Try this

If you’ve ever had the pleasure of meeting my hubby, affectionately known as Greggy, Gregorio or El Toro, you’d know that he’s pragmatic, uncomplicated, chronically content, and nothing if not kind and...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

We Can All be winners

I’ve just returned from adventures in Ecuador over the last 4 weeks. It was a truly wonderful journey, especially my time in the Andes, which I had visited 20 years ago and was thrilled to return to....

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Like a Virgin

You’ve heard the song Like A Virgin by Madonna right? You know, the one where she sings “You made me feel shiny & new”. Well, when’s the last time you felt shiny & new, like a, you know a,...

View Article

Browsing all 13 articles
Browse latest View live