Body Temple Dance

THE MALE GAZE DETOX

How much of your life have you been organizing around being chosen?

Five rituals to find out — and find your way back.

Ritual 4

We've been naming it. Feeling it. Tracking it through your body and your closet.

Today we get in touch with your inner teen.

Back to the girl who first learned the rules. Who first felt the weight of being watched. Who learned to make herself pretty, palatable, acceptable — and swallowed everything that wasn't.

She didn't get to be ugly. She didn't get to be rageful. She didn't get to take up space in her full, messy, uncontainable aliveness.

She had no one to guide her through it. No container to hold it.

Today, you become that for her.

This practice is a meditation, a ritual, and a dance — all in one. Give yourself uninterrupted time and space. This is a tender and powerful practice for release and repair.

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Ritual:

After the meditation, your inner teenager will bring you a song. Put it on.

Dance with her. Dance as her.

The only invitation: be as ugly as humanly possible.

Let her roar. Let her rage. Let her grieve. Let her move in all the ways she was never allowed to when she was being watched, managed, and shaped into something desirable.

When you're done — lie down. Let the ground hold you. Let the Divine Mother receive everything your inner teen had nowhere to put.

Rest there as long as you need to integrate your practice.

Reflect & Journal:

When you're ready, take 5-10 minutes to reflect:

1. What song came to your inner teenager? What does that song hold for her?

2. What emotions or sensations moved through your body during the dance? What surprised you?

3. What did she need to express that she never got to? What was she holding that had no place to go?

4. What does your inner teenager most need you to know? What has she been trying to tell you?

5. What would it mean to stop leaving her behind — and bring her with you as you move through the world?

Cherish the relationship with your inner teenager. Lookout for the next ritual in your inbox in a few days.

Love,

Tammy

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THE MALE GAZE DETOX

How much of your life have you been organizing around being chosen? Five rituals to find out — and find your way back.