Today we’d like to introduce you to Centehua Sage.
Hi centehua, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstory.
My love for dance and the natural world began in early childhood. I grew up in Mexico City, I come from a family of musicians, writers and performing artists. i used to spend the days dancing in the garden and I followed that impulse into adulthood. Motherhood inspired me to deepen in what it means to create a thriving culture and so I began my journey as a postpartum doula and herbalist, serving women throughout the most potent initiation of life ensures the future has a strong foundation. I believe real culture must center mother and children and that the ecological crisis is supporting our awakening and encouraging a return to the garden, to an intimation with the lands we occupy, our health depends on our interconnectedness with our immediate environment, our watershed and the community at large. My passion has been in sharing my love for movement as a source of creative power and as a bridge to our authentic essence as human beings. I grew up dancing and entered the world of dance academia until my health failed which is why I encourage a more holistic approach to all performing arts as a fundamental aspect of human expression and, as a healing modality. I held regular dance rituals for women for a few years in Southern California, I’ve taught at retreats and festivals and I offer courses and education online. my dream is to support people along the journey of individuation and embodiment so that together we may serve the collective from a grounded place for the world needs people who remember a sense of belonging and have the capacity to co-create a more harmonious, earth based culture that actually serves future generations.
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
Crisis precipitates change and pain is the crucible for transformation. I have dealt with complex trauma and a difficult upbringing. I struggled with addiction and eating disorders which is why my work has been rooted in embodiment.
I believe in our capacity to alchemize wounds into power and to offer sweet medicine from our suffering. I am highly sensitive and have always felt things deeply, I am extremely aware of my environment, I notice subtle changes in the field and in people therefore it has been essential for me to understand the role of anger and the value of setting boundaries. It wasn’t until I reached my forties that I realized that overriding the intelligence of my body led to dis-ease and I have been contending with auto-immune and bone loss which led me to resistance training and a mostly carnivore diet. Beyond exercise and diet, the ability to choose myself has been foundational to my healing or return to homeostasis. I am now starting all over again at almost fifty, I am stronger than I have ever been and while I grieve the life and the dreams that never fully materialized, I am also proud that I chose integrity over mediocrity. Every challenge has taught me how to take responsibility for my habituated pattern and addictions, the pain has challenged a narrative of victimhood and insted showed me how to own every part of my story and how to wear my scars proudly.
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
My mother tongue is movement and writing is how I bridge the worlds and make sense of reality. For me writing is ceremonial magic and a modality of self witnessing. I write regularly on Substack and have a series of Love letters for mothers. I also created a movement practice that is guided by the elements and creates a map into deeper self contemplation and inquiry. I am involved in a writing school for women called SAGA , we are a global web of feminine storytellers and poets and we gather online and in person to create pathways of lineage healing, matriarchal rituals and artistic power in service to all.
What has been the most important lesson you’ve learned along your journey?
Success cannot be measured in numbers, success is about contentment and the act of creative expression and that beyond all the health and wellness practices, a genuine connection to land and people is what creates harmony within our bodies. Also as an introvert I have been able to differentiate between solitude and isolation. Solitude is nourishing but isolation causes harm, it’s all about timing and mental state.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.centehua-sage.com/
- Instagram: @centeha.sage
- Youtube: https://youtube.com/@centehuasage2874?si=3H-htaR3LMa9frb_
- Other: https://centehuasage.substack.com/
Image Credits
photographt- Samara Alima
instagram- @samsterdam7
