This is a Dance Awake mix that was the first in a series called Women Dancing (not because you needed to be any particular type of woman to join, simply because something different happens in a space where there is only women – obvs, now that it’s online, all are welcome to enjoy!). In the …
Belong to your bodyLet your body belong to you.Own each movementLet the movement own you.Be inextricably part of this planet’s whole,Belonging, in whatever moment (awkward, powerful, beautiful, broken)You find yourself in. Themes are always an invitation, a thread to pull that might bring deeper awareness or expansion in the practice, and “Belonging” is no different. …
I ‘ve been contemplating Bones. How I often think of them as rigid and straight, because mostly I see them only when they’re out of their body, as skeletons, dried out and brittle. But I’ve been wondering about them alive in my body. Holding structure, holding form, also breathing and moving. Made up of living, …
No one I know Moves only in straight lines Our paths twist and curve The journey unfurling We come back around Though never to the same place Our bodies too Circle and spiral With poetic efficiency
And you’ll know them because they’ll be dancing… The more I dance my own dance, the more I spot them in the crowd, the special fellow humans with that willingness to dance. Who show up with whatever they are feeling. Who pay attention and meet with their whole being. Radiating their embodied wisdom, and honouring …
Nourishment is found Down deep in your wellTake time to fill from waters clear Drink deep the soul elixir The invitation in this movement practice is to, like water, find yourself deeply connected to gravity. Follow the dance of least resistance. That is not to say stop moving, but instead of expending energy in forcing …
There is nothing you are not connected to, patiently waiting for you to notice.
Listen with your skin, as you breath in.
Let your ears open like flowers to every sound and silence.
Touch, as you breath out, and with your weight as you lean in.
Letting your eyes soften to dissolve the illusion of space between.
Being all this beautiful entangled mess that is life, as you let it in.
Dear Life, Thank you for dancing with me. Even when I’m awkward and don’t want to come out of the corner. Or step on your toes. Sometimes you step on mine too, and that hurts!I know this is often when I get distracted and forget I’m dancing. Or when we’re learning a particularly challenging move. …
We are the stardustand the stars. Dancing Specks of dustAnd the whole universe
Twilight a sensory threshold temporarily dissolved borders, no man’s land moving fluid and malleable the dark phase of liminality breaking down to make whole source creative power making space, time, place for feeling where we end and where we begin
“Be like water, my friend” — Bruce Lee
Finding our feet Kissing with each stepThe earth beneath Some in rapid successionSome slow and lingering Always this dance, Merging, flying, Out breath, inOur feet and the groundAre Lovers that can’t be kept apart.
Be curious. Of where the light comes from. Of how it feels. And the expanding of dense spaces. Exploring it’s dance with the shadows. And how you are filled with it.
“Know all the theories, master all the techniques, but as you touch a human soul, be just another human soul.” C. G. Jung
Invitation for the Dance – What: Be.Where: Here.When: Now. With Love…
“We forget that we are in an exquisite miracle of beauty everyday… Love is not the fabric of everything. The fabric of everything is beauty. And our reaction to seeing the beauty is Love. ” Dr Zach Bush The invitation for this mix is to find patterns in your dance – old patterns or new …