Where👏 Are👏 The👏 Visuals?!👏

Our first lesson from Queen Bey…

Welcome to the
MOVEMENT RENAISSANCE

This week’s SWAK is from my new beta test course MOVEMENT RENAISSANCE. If you’d like to join (for free!) and continue receiving these email lessons, sign up HERE.

This experience will be me using Beyoncé’s album RENAISSANCE to introduce you to and hopefully help you embody all of the core principles of Intuitive Movement.

This is a MOVEMENT RENAISSANCE, led by the Queen Bey’s music, facilitated by me (Deanna Beaton, if we haven’t met yet–hi!).

And to kick us off, I want to ask you a very important question:

WHEREARETHEVISUALS?!

10 years ago (10 years, 1 month, & 1 day ago, to be exact… but who’s counting?) she surprised the world with her digital drop of not only a full album, but also all of the accompanying music videos.

At once.

ALL OF IT.

Then, in 2016, she premiered her album LEMONADE on HBO, not merely as an album with music videos, but instead she invented a new mixed media art form called a “visual album”–which is to say, the music was within an hour-long film of the same name.

Yet again, by the time we even knew an album was coming, she had already made and released the visuals to accompany her music.

2020, Black is King, same thing.

The woman was–as they say–making moves in silence.

But in 2022, when RENAISSANCE dropped, there was nary a visual, video, teaser, or image to be seen…

We waited.

We got a 1:50 teaser video.

We waited longer.

We got a Kidz Bop video for CUFF IT. (It’s a wild ride. Enjoy.)

We waited even longer.

We got A WHOLE DAMN WORLD TOUR. (Maybe you heard about it?)

We kept waiting, wondering…?

Then, finally, we got…

Beyoncé herself telling us, “You are the visuals, baby.” (We also got merch of it.)

THEN, we got a concert film, and it all started to make sense.

She wasn’t going to give us “visuals.” At least, not in the way we expected.

Or, more importantly, she wasn’t going to DO EXTRA to make music videos for each song (not yet? TBD).

So, what exactly does this have to do with Intuitive Movement?

Aren’t you tired?

Haven’t you been making moves in silence for, like, ever?

I don’t know about you, but Beyoncé could have given us the audio album ONLY and then dropped off the face of the Earth forever, & I would have been eternally grateful. (I would have been sad and worried, too, but grateful nonetheless.)

She doesn’t owe us visuals. (She doesn’t owe us a damn thing, in fact.)

She realized she didn’t have to make extra work for herself.

She didn’t have to DO extra to BE extra.

When it comes to movement, are you convinced that the only way it can happen is if you make extra work for yourself?

Does it have to be MORE than what you’re already doing?

Are you giving yourself credit for what you’re already doing?

Or are you actually already performing an entire concert most days, and you just think you’re ALSO supposed to make music videos?

IS YOUR IDEA OF FITNESS SOMETHING YOU THINK YOU’RE EXPECTED TO PERFORM FOR THE WORLD TO PROVE THAT YOU’RE WORTHY OF YOUR BODY, HEALTH, AND LIFE?

Toxic Fitness Culture is all about “the visuals.” Beyoncé don’t need ‘em, and neither do we!

PRACTICE:

This MLK Day, if you have the day off–but especially if you don’t–I want you to luxuriate in and really feel into the rest and not doing that you are owed and allowed, simply for the mere fact of existing. You don’t need to perform, achieve, or meet any other metric to earn your rest or trash your to-do list altogether.

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TTYL,

Deanna