In this powerful episode, we're joined by Brooke Yantzi, an expert in feminine leadership, somatic healing, and dance embodiment. Brooke shares her inspiring 20-year journey of overcoming trauma, anxiety, and an eating disorder, through the healing powers of dance and movement. Discover how she has traveled the world teaching dance therapy, built a business around mental health through movement, and ultimately birthed Dance Alchemy, a modality that's now taught across four continents. We delve into the process of evolving as a soul-led entrepreneur, the importance of trusting your body, and navigating through life’s most challenging transitions. Whether you're in tune with your body or looking to reconnect, Brooke’s insights will inspire you to embrace embodiment and dance your way to deeper healing.

Time Stamps:

01:17 – Brooke’s passion for igniting feminine leaders and embracing embodiment

02:02 – Brooke’s journey: From childhood trauma to finding healing through dance

03:06 – The impact of dance therapy and creating a spiritual path of movement

05:02 – Teaching and traveling the world with dance healing modalities

06:05 – Launching Dance Alchemy and teaching embodiment to entrepreneurs

09:08 – The intersection of personal transformation and business growth

12:24 – The importance of trust and mentorship on the entrepreneurial path

14:41 – The role of dance and movement in releasing trauma and emotions

23:04 - Defining embodiment: From knowledge to action

24:05 - Signs of disembodiment: Overriding the body and burnout

24:24 - Embodiment in practice: Aligning thoughts, words, and actions

26:43 - Why Dance Alchemy modalities are so unique

27:13 - The unique elements of Dance Alchemy

32:44 - Growing Dance Alchemy globally: Teaching on four continents

33:10 - Launching during personal hardship and rising from the darkness

33:46 - Healing through fun and movement

34:07 - Reprogramming on a cellular level through movement

37:02 - Lessons from teaching, mentorship, and perseverance

38:17 - Dance as a way to infuse the world with joy and connection

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I'm so excited.

Another episode here with a very special guest today we have Brooke Yanzi, who I met at this amazing live event in Canada this year.

And those of you that have been listening to this podcast for some time, you know I'm all about live events and retreats and getting yourself in the room with like minded women because Brooke also lives here in Costa Rica.

She's igniting feminine leaders to embrace dance and somatic healing, feminine embodiment and alignment.

And I'm really excited to bring her onto the podcast.

Get to know her as you get to know her and all the magic that she brings and births into the world.

Thank you for being here, Brooke.

Thank you so much for having me.

I'm so happy to be here.

Yay.

So tell us a little bit.

I'm excited.

I'm really excited to know more about you.

I know before I hit, like, the record button, you were saying that you've been on this journey for 15 plus years and, like, just the history that that brings, the friendships, the connections, the support.

But how did you start this path of entrepreneurship, dance embodiment, feminine leadership, and all the things that you really stand for and move with?

Great question.

So I started.

I started down this journey.

It was actually even over 20 years ago, when I was a teenager, I had a really bad eating disorder.

I struggled with depression, anxiety, and there was some trauma in my family.

And I really, my mom was into this stuff.

She was a life coach, worked at a clinic with healers and naturopaths.

And so she would always send me to healers.

She was very.

So that was my world that I grew up in.

And then I went to university to study psychology because I'm like, you know, I'm still struggling with a lot of things, even though I'm getting my chakras cleared and doing all the things, and I was still struggling with the eating disorder.

So I studied psychology at university and I just found that there was something missing for me where my love of dance and my background of dance was missing.

So I ran a charity dance production, and I was a part of that.

And dance really brought me so much joy and back into my body, and I couldn't find anything about dance therapy or dance healing.

So when I graduated, I was like, I'm going to go on my spiritual journey, which led me to travel all over the world.

And I always ended up studying with lots of spiritual leaders and healers.

That was my fascination, but also a lot of dance and movement.

And so I took a few different trainings on dance healing, ecstatic dance, and I fell in love with one of them specifically.

I started running classes and workshops, and then I fell in love with one modality specifically.

I learned how to teach it in schools, working with kids.

Then I became a really good instructor.

They asked me to be a master trainer.

They sent me all over the world to teach people how to teach it.

And that's really where the healing of my body was so much deeper, where the self love came in, where I learned to really love and accept myself and my body.

And for whatever reason, this path, there was just always really big opportunities that open up for me.

And, I mean, I leaned into a lot of opportunities.

I said, yes.

I got out of my comfort zone.

I worked my butt off, because from the first time I started movement and taking dance, teaching dance as healing, I knew it was part of my life's purpose.

And I saw a vision that I was meant to travel the world and get people dancing.

And so it started.

Yeah.

So really, my career started about 15 years ago, but the journey started probably a decade before that.

And then, yeah, over the last 15 years, I've traveled the world teaching different dance fitness and dance healing modalities.

I also ran a company in British Columbia that taught mental health through dance in the school.

So I had a whole team of instructors, and we were all over the province.

And so I did that for about six years before I came to Costa Rica and I sold that company.

So it's still running.

It's amazing.

And at that point, spirit was like, okay, it's time.

Because when I was working in the schools, I was so focused on building that business that I wasn't teaching adults anymore.

I wasn't teaching women to, like, fall in love with their bodies.

And so while I loved what we were doing in the schools, it was also very education based, positive mental health.

It was beautiful, but I knew that my soul was craving a deeper connection to understanding how we heal through the body.

Because I had taught it, I had witnessed it.

And so when I started studying somatic healing, embodiment work.

And I launched my online business.

I actually launched my online business with entrepreneurs first because I built some businesses, and then I started teaching feminine embodiment, and I bring movement and dance into it.

And so over the last few years, and then I started teaching intuition, and I would get people into their bodies to open up to their intuition.

And so then people started asking me, I want to learn to teach what you teach, like this dance modality.

And so at that point, and spirit had already come through me a few times, being like, you're meant to create your own.

It's time.

You've had over 15 years, you've taught over a hundred thousand people.

You put in the hours, you have the expertise.

And what I saw was a gap in, especially the coaching and healing industry, where everyone was talking about embodiment, but there wasn't a lot of embodiment going on, right?

There was a lot of the talk, there's a lot of the words.

And I always, my preferred way of teaching has always been less talk, more experience.

I'm not, I'm one of those that I'm like, let's just experience it and see what happens, right?

See what you get from it.

So dance alchemy was birthed about a year and a half ago, officially, and we now have instructors on four continents.

It's all over the world.

It's so surreal and it's really beautifully growing, and I'm so grateful for that.

Wow, it's so beautiful.

It's like serial entrepreneur and like, just seeing how to, it's like your body has been the portal of creation and also at one point, destruction, right?

It's like you learned by not worshipping the temple of your body and taking care of, and then, like, becoming the embodiment of what it is you do.

And I know that that has really become a big word in the coaching industry, but for someone like you who has really just, like, lived and experienced through your body, it's so beautiful to watch even, and witness your evolution of, like, how that shows up in your career and the way that you continue to serve.

And you know that you sold a business that's still running and teaching, teaching these modalities and through mental health and just, it really shows, like, the spectrum of, like, how you can then bring your work into the world and, like, sharing your gifts and your assets and, like, while you're growing and evolving, so is what you're teaching, so is how you're serving.

And I'm curious for you, like, has there been deaths of like, letting go of this chapter as you're birthing this new iteration of your business, because I feel like that's the hardest part.

Like, when something good is working, but you go from good to great.

You go from where you are to, like, can I move to Costa Rica, buy property, and run my business online?

Like, how has your journey and relationship been with evolution and evolving, who you are and how you show up in your soul's purpose?

Ooh, that is a big question, because I feel like I'm so committed to evolving and growing, and it's just been such a big part of who I am and who I was five years ago is very different.

Who I was working, you know, teaching those programs in schools was very different than who I am now.

And I feel like I've gone through a thousand deaths of, like, the old and even old relationships.

As we were chatting about, you know, like, as dance alchemy really got birth, my marriage was ending, and so the medicine that was coming through me was actually, for me, first.

And the first time I launched the dance alchemy certification, my marriage ended three weeks before we started.

And it was one of those divine initiations, and I already had people signed up.

We were already in it, and I was like, okay, here we go.

And so even though I had such a deep understanding of this material, I'd been dancing my whole life.

There was such a deepening of it and of the ability for movement to heal and to help us process these core, these, like, deep seated fears and traumas and grief and sadness and anger and all of the things that come up in a healing portal, like a divorce or a breakup.

And so, really, my medicine came through first for me.

And I remember the second time I taught the certification, I was like, wow, this is brilliant.

Right?

Because when you're in it and it's like being created, and there were days where I had something planned, it's like, no, we're totally going in this direction.

And it was such a power.

It's such a powerful container, and, yeah, I just feel like it's inevitable as an entrepreneur who is a soul led entrepreneur who's in your medicine, in your magic, that you're going to have many deaths as you expand and grow into this next phase, there are going to be old deaths of the self that can't come, right, like, releasing and letting go of what doesn't serve so that we can expand into this next phase of evolution, of expansion, of impact, and of really understanding our own medicine.

Yeah.

And it's almost like you were saying, like, this is the work, right?

The evolve, the evolution of me is part of it.

And something that you said that I repeat often is like, when you go to launch or create or burst something in the world for transformation of others, you get initiated every single time you launch the thing.

It's not like, oh, I launched the thing once and then I'm there.

It's like, no, every time you do, it's like you go through it so that you can lead from a more, like, embodied place, which, you know, it's like, for you, I feel like your work is somatic and embodiment work.

So it only makes sense that, like, you're moving through these things, like, within your body.

And how for you do you feel like having these tools, right.

It's like, tools to move through these challenging times have, like, gave you self and personal power to, like, keep trusting the evolution.

I feel like I just have such a deep trust in the body and in the dance and the in.

In its ability to transform and create art and to express.

And there's, like, this deep trust.

And that being said, there were also a lot of mentors and people around me that were like, you know, in the.

In the darkest parts.

Like, I've always had mentorship, always in any business, and without that, without other people also saying, like, you've got this.

It's going to suck to go through it.

Allow yourself.

It's going to, you know, you know, allow yourself to have it crack you open or, you know, so the trust comes from, yes, this deeper knowing, but also the people that have gone before me, my incredible network of humans that is cheering me on and supporting me every step of the way.

That, yeah, when I.

When my trust wavers, I can, like, lean into.

Yeah, I think that's a really good, like, point.

Like, it doesn't matter how embodied you are or how many tools you have, you are a human, and you are going to need to be reminded that this is just a phase, a season.

You're going to be okay.

You've got this.

Like, we're here for you.

Like, support and mentorship is so big.

I feel like no matter how long you've been in this work, it's like, I think about Tony Robbins or Michael Jordan who, like, the best of the best they have and had coaches, you know, to get to where they are, because it's like, this stuff isn't easy.

But for some, like, what I'm thinking of as you speak is like, what about the people that are very disassociated with their bodies, like, not wanting to identify or even feel into or don't know how.

Like, a big conversation that came up this morning on one of my coaching calls was, like, why aren't we taught how to experience and feel our emotions?

Like, why isn't that a core concept in school?

Like, what were we prepared for?

You know?

And I think that for so long, it's like, man up, don't cry, don't be a girl.

It's like, don't feel the feelings.

And so many are disassociated with the body.

And I know many people listening here, they know they're in tune with their bodies, but also just, like, how do I start to listen to my body and the wisdom of my body if I forgot?

Or I just need to be reminded that, like, this tool is a powerful vessel of wisdom?

That is a great question.

I mean, disassociation is, you know, there's many reasons for it, and often it's deeper trauma, especially on the spectrum of how extreme it is or not starting to listen to it.

So, like, I just want to, like, preface that because there are a lot of people, a big and a big reason why we disassociate or we're not connected to our body is deeper trauma.

So getting support, I would always preface all of this by saying, like, get support, because I also do, like, somatic healing and deeper work.

And it's so, so, so important that being said, movement and dance is such a powerful way, and any of those support systems will encourage you to move and to start listening to your body.

So when people come into my world, a big part of what we do is getting them to move their bodies just in ways that feels good.

So getting into their bodies in a way that feels good, and having them tune in to, like, what's going on right now?

What are you needing right now?

What are you.

What are you desiring?

What are you wanting?

And this is a practice that we can weave into every area of our life.

You know, before you eat or drink something, it's like, well, what is it that you need?

And really listening and tuning into your body, so really coming home to our bodies requires consistent practice and a commitment to being aware, a commitment to dropping all distractions.

You know, things like social media are such a distraction for our human experience.

And it's interesting that people are going through this experience right now where there is a lot of disassociation, partly because we become so disconnected from our bodies with all of the distractions around us, from social media, to drugs and alcohol, to all the things Netflix, you know, like, all of the things can be destructions, and all of these things are fine in moderation, you know, depending on where you fit in the things.

But they also.

We now have a society that has numbed out.

And it's partly because the world is waking up, and the awakening journey is not.

It's painful.

It's painful to wake up to these deeper traumas, to these deeper emotions, to these deeper ancestral things.

So a lot of people are pushing it down.

No, no, no, no, no.

When what needs to happen is, like, how can I embrace this?

Because it's coming up and out, and the whole world is waking up, whether we go kicking and screaming or whether we, like, allow it.

So the reassociation is like allowing ourselves to feel that darkness, to feel that pain, to face those shadows, to face what wants to be seen and felt, to face these traumas, you know?

And movement and dance are a really beautiful way when it's done in the right context.

And when you're allowing yourself to really express and really feel, it's a beautiful way for you to feel, but allow it to move through you.

Because the other thing that can sometimes happen is we can get stuck in the feeling, just like we can get stuck in the drama.

Right?

Like those drama loops.

And so when we allow it to move through and out our body, it's releasing it instead of getting stuck.

Yeah.

And I like that.

That.

That share really just, like, made me want to cry almost, because I'm.

I'm just feeling, like, when it's, like, numbing out to, like, eating and watching tv or, you know, the pharmaceutical pandemic or the drugs and the alcohol and the overdose and all the things in the ways.

But then when we do start to, like, feel in the body, like, the.

The way that you brought awareness to the painfulness of the beginning of that.

Like, I remember, you know, it's like, I remember when I first started letting myself grieve.

I was lying on a yoga mat in Shavasana, and it was the first time that I felt safe in my body to just cry.

And I cried so hard.

And I had met because I had, like, shoved it down with anger and a warrior.

And then, like, getting into my body through the yoga practice really allowed me to just feel in my body for the first time.

And it was dark, it was painful.

And I think just the awareness of that for anyone that's coming back in, and I'm sure that those listening that are like, yep, I experienced that I remember that.

But it's the euphoric feeling that you have when you move.

And on the other side is the release.

It is the freedom.

And that's what I love when I'm contemplating now, dance and yoga.

Yoga can be very rigid and structured and alignment based, whereas dance is just what wants to move through me.

And now what is my body telling me from this moment?

So I feel like there's just this, like, deeper level of, like, self trust that can be built with and through the dance movements opposed to yoga, which I know they both have their somatic experiencing in that as well.

But, yeah, you.

You took me back, Brooke.

So I'm sure that many listening are like, yeah, I had that moment in that space.

And for you, I'm curious, too.

Like, I have two questions, and we'll just start with the first one.

But the first one is, like, what is embodiment to you?

Because I know this is a really big hype word, and I'm, like, differentiating, like, what embodiment means to me in my work and, like, how I show up as, like, the embodied yogi, the embodied mother, the embodied businesswoman, like, the embodied student and client, and then, like, talking to you, who's been doing this for, you know, 2015 years, like, what does it mean to you to be embodied?

Well, I feel like embodiment is, like, taking what we know and knowing.

It's like, the difference between knowing from the head.

There's a lot of people who know things, and they can teach on them, and they can say the right words, and they can do all the things, but then in their day to day, they aren't necessarily acting that way.

They aren't necessarily embodied in that medicine or in that knowing.

And so embodiment is really like this?

Yeah.

Taking it from the head into the body is like allowing yourself to feel what's going on, allowing yourself not just to be like, everything's good, let's just charge through it.

And I feel like that's why we're seeing also a lot of burnout happen, because a lot of people have been overriding their body for so long.

So embodiment can look like resting when your body needs rest.

You know, embodiment can look like, you know, saying the thing that's in alignment with you, even if it's difficult because you're embodied and it actually will hurt your body not to.

Right.

It can mean leaving that relationship that's not fully aligned because it feels it.

You can feel it in your body.

And so embodiment can look like a lot of things.

It's not just like I'm dancing around all the time, every day, which in my world, that's a big part of it.

But it also is like, your thoughts and your words align with your actions and.

And your soul knowing.

Right?

It's like the people who.

It's.

It's like taking this connection to spirit source creator from your head and the understanding into, like, this deep knowing.

And it's really like, it really is like living what you say and what you know.

And that's where sometimes, because we have such a disconnected world, we can see this a lot where that.

That person we look up to or, you know, it's just, like, not fully landing because it's not fully alive.

So it.

Being embodied is, like really living your medicine.

Yeah.

So beautiful.

I often say it's like turning, like, the knowledge into wisdom.

You know, it's like, how many courses and trainings and programs can you study and how many can you actually go and implement and then discern what's real for you?

Which I think, for me, like, yoga has always been that place and space of discernment.

Like, the yoga teacher tells you to do it this way, but, like, in your body, that's a big no.

And so I think, like, yeah, I love what you say about, like, turning it into wisdom through your body and experience and.

And also, like, walking your talk.

Are you say you are?

Are you who you say you are?

Which I think is a really big one.

And that's how, like, some people can just walk in the room and you feel them.

Right?

It's like, their presence is so big because it's like they really are walking and breathing what they're preaching and teaching, which is really powerful.

And, yeah, I only got to glimpse a little of your world at the event that we went to in Canada, but it was so beautiful to be in your energy.

And I just want to ask you one final question before we close.

And for you, like, what's the difference in your modality?

Because I know we're celebrating your biggest launch ever.

Like, you teaching in four different, like, people teaching this work in four different countries.

Like, what is your unique design when it comes to dance alchemy and the way that you're teaching instructions how to go and share this medicine with what other.

What others.

Like, you go share this medicine with others.

Like, what's your differentiation?

Ooh, good question.

So the differentiation.

So, like I said, this work has been a work from my heart for the last 15 years.

So I really have studied with a lot of different people.

And I've really taken what works well.

And I've really, you know, taken what doesn't work or left let go of what doesn't work well.

But the biggest thing that differentiates well, there's a few things, but really understanding the nervous system.

So understanding how we support people from the beginning to the end, where we really anchor in and we use the element.

So we start in the earth element, where we allow people to land and arrive and feel safe and feel grounded and feel here.

And we first drop people into their bodies and get them aware.

Then we move into, like, the water element, where we're flowing more around the room.

We're connecting with different people.

So we're now creating safe in the space.

Because most people will go to a dance class.

And if it's ecstatic dance, you may or may not connect with people, but.

And I love ecstatic.

And ecstatic is part of dance alchemy.

But a lot of spaces, you may never even look someone in the eyes.

You may never feel connected to someone.

And that's beautiful.

You have your own internal experience.

But in our class, we really get people connected so that the body feels safe in the space.

And that we can remind people also how to connect.

Because in our world of technology and all the dramas and traumas that have happened, especially over the last five years, people become disconnected from each other.

And this is a really, really important part of the healing process and of just feeling alive.

Like it is a deep internal need.

So we move people around the room, and we actually give them really simple movements to do so.

Everyone feels really connected, whether it be on, like, the rhythm, the movement, even though everyone gets to dance it with their own style in their own way.

And that's very much encouraged.

And what that also does is that tells the brain, because the brain is always looking for, am I getting it right?

Am I getting it right?

Am I getting it right?

This tells the brain, you're good, you're connected, you're in coherence.

We're creating this group coherence, which is really special.

And all of a sudden, people are like, oh, my God, I'm here.

And I'm bringing them in, and we're bringing them into the body even more in this water element.

So we're creating, like, the water element is actually very important.

We're creating a lot of structure, kind of like the river banks create the structure for the water to flow.

And so we're really grounding people in their bodies and giving them like, new things to try, like, you know, strutting around with confidence or, like, posing or, you know, things that can really increase their confidence and give them.

Give them movements where we feel connected.

And then our fire element is like the somatic release.

It's like the shaking, the screaming at the ecstatic dance, it can be really playful and fun, and it's like this expansion, which can also include, like, shedding and letting go and releasing.

And at this point, the nervous system has been opened.

It's been primed.

It knows it's safe.

So by the time we're at the ecstatic dance, people can be wild and free and really allow what wants to be released to be released.

And then we move into our air element, which is kind of.

Which is like the expansion, because every time we go through that darkness, every time we go through that hard time, there is an expansion.

There is that breath, right?

Every time we go into that dark place in our emotions, there is the light on the other side.

So I love the air element because it can feel very, like, ethereal, and it's like, okay, well, so if we've let all of that go, what are we dancing into?

What are we dancing with now?

How can we connect to spirit or higher levels and allow all of this to dance with us and all of ourselves to dance?

And then we always end in meditation and stillness, which just allows it all to integrate, like the quantum, the ether, we call it.

And the amount of beautiful visions and insights and downloads that come in through during that time is quite profound.

So it really is like a dance journey.

When we take people on the journey, I sometimes teach at conferences and festivals and big events where it's more fun and playful generally.

But when we really take people on a journey, it's quite a profound healing experience.

And people tell me this all the time.

They're like, you know, I've gone to different ecstatic dances or I've gone to different dance classes, but I've never experienced this depth of connection both to my body, to my emotions, and, like, this profound healing or awakening.

And I know that, that that's a big reason why we are growing so fast.

And we are on four continents now, and we continue to grow and have instructors signing up from all over the world, which is really surreal because we just launched a year and a half ago during, you know, and like I said, during, like, one of my hardest times of my life, it feels surreal that this is what was birthed from, really.

I mean, it was birthed before I hit that, right?

But like, really from the darkness, there's so much beauty that gets cracked open.

And so my journey is, like, helping people realize that facing the darkness and doing this healing, it doesn't have to be so hard, and it can be fun.

And we don't always need to figure out why, right?

Like, our body keeps the score, and our body can also, you know, in the hard way, but also in the good way.

So by both allowing what wants to move from the body, we don't always need to cognitively know what it is.

And then also anchoring in and realigning with, like, what is it we're calling in?

What are we dancing into?

How can we reprogram ourselves on a cellular level?

Rather than just from the mind, let's bring that into our body.

Let's dance with what we're stepping into.

It's just a really profound, profound healing journey.

So beautiful.

I can just feel your passion, and, like, I feel like you just took my body on an experience, like, sharing the experience of what it's like.

And I, you know, I can only see this, like, spreading farther and wider and, like, deeper.

Like, I can feel the richness of this that you've created, and it's because you are so freaking embodied.

And the one last question that I always ask, which I think is going to be so beautiful, with what you just shared and your mission and why you're growing so quickly.

And, like, the transformational journey you take your clients on is, like, the impact that this work, how you amplify your impact, the work that you've had on your life, like, that's the ripple.

And then the waves that you get to create is all the lives that you touch and you share this with, and then they go on to share it with more lives and more people and more impact and, like, making big waves.

But, like, why are you here for so much more?

Oh, good question.

Why am I here for so much more?

In some ways, I wonder this all the time, because I feel like since the beginning of my journey, spirit gave me a pretty big vision and a pretty big mission.

And I've been blessed to travel the world, teaching over 100,000 people, training hundreds of instructors.

I've been blessed to have a pretty big reach, and I know that I'm being prepared for more.

And I can see how everything that has happened in my life has led to this point that I can't imagine that spirit would be like, okay, now your time's done.

No, you're just gonna, you know, like, it just wouldn't make sense like, my being has literally been expanded over the last ten or 15 years on many hundreds of stages in front of thousands of people.

Like, big opportunities just come all the time.

And I appreciate that.

I'm very grateful.

But I know that this soul signature and this soul calling was not put on my heart.

And from the very beginning, when I was given the first vision of me traveling the world and dancing, I knew that if it was put on my heart, it was true.

And that spirit, my higher levels, wanted me to know it.

And my role was to just continue to walk through the door.

And in the beginning, that was to take that training, to learn from that mentor.

And I walked through door after door after door.

I showed up to so many.

I taught so many dance classes where one or two people would show up or no one I taught.

So I showed up time and time again.

I taught.

I think I took three trainings of the same training before I was even confident enough to teach my first class of that dance modality.

And I shadowed someone for eight months in schools because I desperately wanted to learn how to teach kids, but I didn't know how, and I was terrified.

And so I went with her for eight months, not every day, but often where I'd go with her and she would let me teach a song or two and I would just shadow her and I'd learn from her.

I sought out those mentors, and I know that I've learned from the best of the best, and I know I will continue to learn from the best of the best.

And that I'm.

I don't.

I know that the future is so big.

And the vision for dance alchemy I've been given is so big, sometimes it's terrifying because spirit came through me and it was like, like four or five years ago and was like, you are here to ignite the world through dance.

And the world needs more dance.

The world needs more light.

So while we do take people on a journey, it's also really fun and playful.

And there's a lot of joy in this modality, and there's a lot of joy in everything I do, because the world needs more light.

It needs more play, it needs more joyous.

So much intensity and so much darkness sometimes and so much shadow.

And now is time for us to, like, infuse the world with love, with light, with peace, with hope, with joy, with connection.

And in my experience, dance has this way of rippling.

And everything I have done, it's been like this drop that just goes, and I can't fully explain it, but I've seen it happen now time and time again with my different dance businesses and the things that I've done.

And I'm like, all right, hold on tight because here we go.

Because this is like, this is the show.

This is the.

I don't want to say the grand finale because I'm sure there'll be more.

Right?

I'm sure there will be more reiterations, but it definitely feels like what is the moving through me and what's happening in my world without.

And it's not that I haven't shown up every single day in my business, because that's what I do.

That's how I've built a few businesses now is I show up every day and I do the thing and I get the mentors and I put myself out there and I'm teaching.

I'm, you know, it's not that I'm not doing that, but sometimes it still amazes me when it hits that point of like, okay, here we go.

And it's like, all right, everyone, it's go time.

I've just seen this happen a few times before, and the things that I've launched or taught or done where I'm like, all right.

I know that feeling when we hit that threshold and.

And then it's like, now it's the universes, and let the magic begin.

Yeah, there has been magic, but, like, there's certain threshold of the work that we do, and I'm sure you can relate to this as an entrepreneur.

It's like planting the seed, doing the thing.

Planting the seed, doing the thing.

You're like, is it working?

I don't even know.

First how many trainings had, like, four people in them, right?

And then all of a sudden, well, in January, we actually had a training that had 20 women in it, which was really cool.

And then this last launch has 25 women in our foundations and 13 women in our certifications.

So we're like, all right, here we go.

And so we're really starting to hit that momentum, that threshold where, yeah, it's magic, and it's going to be really cool to see what unfolds from here.

So beautiful.

And it just reminds me of, you know, the chinese bamboo.

For five years, nothing's happening, and then it explodes, you know, and it's like, can you show up for your vision and your mission, regardless of external outcomes, knowing that you're building something that's going to be so much more than, like you said, like, can I do this?

Can I, like, is that really?

Why I'm here.

Can I hold that?

It's like, yes.

If you keep going and, like, giving to it, giving to it, giving to it, and then it's just, like, record breaking launches and four continents, and, like, soon I'm sure it'll be, like, 40 continents, you know, it's, like, just the beginning.

So thank you so much.

Oh, my gosh.

I think we could talk forever, Brooke.

But for those that I know want to come and find you, maybe sign up for your next round.

Like, follow along on your journey and your evolution here.

Where's the best place for them to plug in?

Yeah.

So find me on Instagram, we have Brooke.

Gillian Janci is my personal.

And then dance alchemy.

Somatics is dance alchemy.

And then my website is brookyancy.com, and all my offerings are there from my, because I also do business coaching and intuitive coaching, although dance alchemy is my main focus.

So it's all on the brookyancy.com website, as well as if you have an event, a retreat, something that you want energized.

So I've come in, and I do, you know, a couple of songs to really energize the crowd or, you know, in Costa Rica, I go into a lot of retreats, and I'll be, like, a special guest.

So if that's something that's also on the website for events, yay.

And Brooke will definitely be here for more live next year.

She's going to a wedding this year, so we're gonna miss her, but that's okay.

Next year.

Round two.

Bigger, better.

But if you're listening here, you love this episode.

Be sure to take a screenshot.

Tag both of us on the instagrams.

Let us know your biggest takeaways.

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And we'll talk to you in the next episode.

Bye bye.

Thank you.