Movement Practice (19 min)
“Guided Movement Meditation: Fluidity”
This guided movement meditation uses R&B music to help you connect with your body and spirit. The theme is Fluidity, in all its forms.
Think about air, and wind, and water.
Think about how the earth moves.
This movement meditation is something that you can continue to return to, and move to, and try different things. There are multiple rhythms for your body to follow.
You can try this seated or standing, and I recommend that you do both.
You may lie down and stretch, dance, breathe, meditate, and do whatever your body leads you to do.
Feel free to do this movement meditation with the music provided (spotify + youtube), without music, or to different music.
Let your body and spirit move you in the most natural way
May You Feel Empowered!
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Movement Practice
Guided Movement Practice Audio:
Song Listing + Links:
Warrior (from A Wrinkle in Time) by Chloe and Halle
Sleepwalker by Emily King
Pink + White by Frank Ocean
Superpower (feat Frank Ocean) by Beyoncé
Les Fleur by Ramsey Lewis
Olivia Kamil Smarr is a Black queer public theologian and spiritual movement artist, combining traditional West African dance with contemporary Black American dance styles, as well as music spanning the African diaspora to show how ancestral rhythms survive in our bodies and are embedded within our spirits. She explores, challenges, and creates innovative ways of spiritual engagement—conjuring revolution, power, magic, and passion through movement. She engages with a theology that views the body itself as divine and holy, embracing the connection of sensuality and spirituality. Olivia Kamil centers those with disabilities, chronic illnesses, and survivors of trauma, including religious trauma, in her work.
Academically, she has a Master of Arts in Religious Studies from Chicago Theological Seminary, where she was a recipient of The Reverend Doctor Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. Legacy Scholarship, and studied spiritual embodiment through movement. She successfully defended her thesis “Revelations of Divine Love: A Womanist Embodied Mysticism” in 2021. Her research explores the intersections between movement, mysticism, and nature, from a queer womanist theological lens.
Olivia Kamil offers private sessions, workshops, movement meditations, and dance classes—including an Afro Spiritual Dance Jam series designed to help movers of all backgrounds, experiences, and ages engage with their spirituality through dance.