222 - When Age Kneels in the Presence of True Sisterhood with Sydney Pacula Owen

Be You Podcast

Meet one of Jill’s dearest friends and soul sisters, who happens to be 20 years younger. What? YES!

Sydney Pacula Owen has a love for both the energetic world unseen and our earthly three dimensional experience. She professionally works as a jewelry designer in her family’s Diamond business focusing on engagement rings and redesigning the old to new. In her creative work, dance is her religion. She has taught creative movement and movement arts to all ages over the past 15 years. Her teaching emphasizes dance as an enjoyable, authentic form of expression. She finds her greatest fulfillment in connecting with others through art whether it be diamonds or dance.

Listen as they explore unconventional friendship, spirituality, the healing art of intuitive dance, and what it means to find God without rules.

Show Notes:

[2:08] - Do you have relationships with other people that aren’t easy? Do they feel forced or feel like they don’t flow well?

[4:16] - Do you radically accept everything about yourself? Because if you don’t, you can’t expect that out of a relationship.

[7:50] - Check out Sydney’s website: Pacula Diamonds.

[12:21] - Jill shares her version of meeting Sydney and the deep knowing that she was supposed to do something with her.

[14:45] - Sydney explains how she knew she was supposed to be there for Jill.

[19:02] - Sydney invited Jill to the moon dance experience and kept the invitation intentionally vague.

[21:29] - If you are at all interested in a women’s dance circle, observe one. It opens up a sense of community.

[22:46] - Giving yourself permission gives others permission.

[25:43] - Sydney had to learn to just trust in the space she has created.

[27:30] - Sydney explains how and why she got into dancing and movement as a way to overcome her disconnection.

[31:53] - Intuitive dance is not planned or choreographed. It will be different every time because it is what you need at the moment.

[35:03] - Give yourself the time and space to just be.

[38:47] - By connecting with her body and truly loving herself through movement and dance, she was able to love herself and her body more.

[41:21] - Sydney describes her faith and how her spirituality doesn’t fit into societal religious practice.

[45:13] - Jill has discovered the freedom of being in tune with herself and finding God there.

[47:50] - Prayer and church do not need to look the same for everyone.

[54:21] - Sydney has always been told that she is “an old woman.”

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