Find your own Centre first
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…
Everyday Dance
Every day we have feelings and movements that want to be experienced, that want to be felt. Some days it doesn't feel like there's time for that. So, I made…
Balance
Balance is not the still point,poised and complete.Balance is the still point and the counter,as they dance. The invitation in the mix is to play with your balance, find rocking…
Gratitude
Conscious dance = a practice of moving with awareness. Gratitude = a practice of appreciative awareness. Conscious dance + Gratitude = a practice of moving with appreciative awareness:) https://www.mixcloud.com/Jolene001/gratitude/ With…
Belonging
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…
Resistance
What you push againstShows you your formYour NoInforms your YesYour strength is forged in your Resistance "Should" is one of my least favourite words. The impression I'm getting is that…
Deep Listening
Deep listeningTakes place without strainSimply presenceAnd tuning in to receive https://www.mixcloud.com/Jolene001/deep-listening/
Visualization
Close your eyesAnd see your body As you moveSee your body See inside your bodySee your body in relationship Part of the groundPart of the musicPart of this living world…
Bones
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…
Circles & Spirals
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…
All you need is…
https://www.mixcloud.com/Jolene001/all-you-need-is/
Spaciousness
Matter Draws so much attention I wonder sometimes How much I'm missing out On the quiet pleasures of spaciousness
Let the Waves of your Breath wash over the Shore of your Being
This mix starts with about 30 secs or so of quiet (so set your speaker at it's normal range and let the music appear in it's own time). Part of…
Group Hug
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…
Nourish
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…
Entangled Life
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.
Try Softer
When you've tried harder, and still harder And those illusory places you grasp for The should be like this and the must get to there Leave you dry and dying…
Grief
Grief comes in many forms and for many reasons. I made this mix because my dad passed away last year and a lot of grief has washed through me since.…
Woman/Man
I rarely dance in a gendered cornerWhat with the whole dancefloor available to this human shuffleAnd the space of a whole universe for this to soul boogie in But what…
Trust Yourself (You know what you’re doing)
This theme came about as a result of wanting to re-build trust in myself. There are so many voices vying for our attention and people, intentionally or unintentionally, swaying us…
Dancing With Life
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…
Let Go
"God speaks to each of us as he makes us,then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the words we dimly hear: You, sent out beyond your…
Stars Dance
We are the stardustand the stars. Dancing Specks of dustAnd the whole universe https://www.mixcloud.com/Jolene001/stars-align/
To thine own self be true
Dance Listening with your body As it reveals you
Liminal
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,…
it comes to us all
With love and a deep appreciation I dance. We have only this moment. https://www.mixcloud.com/Jolene001/it-comes-to-us-all/
Be like water my friend
"Be like water, my friend" -- Bruce Lee
On the Path
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…
Being Gentle With your Heart
Deep in your Heart is a tiny doorTo which you always hold the keyThrough that tiny doorLies the Source of all Life Dancing into your heartWith whatever you might findAnd…
Coming Round
we're coming roundeyes opening blinking in this dawn's half lightas it dances through our eyelashes seeing more than we've ever dareddrinking it inletting it move usin ways we've never been…
When the time is ripe
Like the phoenix, we rise when the time is ripe… Through the mess, through the fire. Patiently, let your body be. It'll move when it's ready. https://www.mixcloud.com/Jolene001/when-the-time-is-ripe/
Thank you for the light
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…
come together
"Know all the theories, master all the techniques, but as you touch a human soul, be just another human soul." C. G. Jung
Be Here Now
Invitation for the Dance - What: Be.Where: Here.When: Now. With Love... https://www.mixcloud.com/Jolene001/be-here-now/
Feeling as a reason
Why, feelings need space to move and to dance. They don't like being pent up inside. But why feel? Because, just perhaps, feeling is reason enough for this existence. Create…
Dance Like No One Is Watching
Choosing to dance to a curated conscious dance mix is different to putting on a favorite track & dancing around the room. With the wave of music you making the…
uMoya
Feeling your spirit in your body - in your breath, in your movements, in your stillness. In your dance with gravity, in your will and in your surrender. In each…
Hidden Places
Open just a little more To all the possibilities in you Those parts kept hidden Let the cool air touch them The fire warm them Let the ground receive them…
In Your Skin
Close your eyes. Finding yourself in this body. In this dance. In this skin. Allowing yourself to go beyond this body. Feel what it might be like to dance in…
Patterns
"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…
Where ever you go, there you are
"Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself." - e. e. cummings Invitation for today's dance:…
Communion
"Umntu ngumntu ngabantu (I am because you are)" The invitation for this mix is to explore the universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity... Or just to enjoy your…
Free to Dance
A dance awake mix for your conscious dance practice. This one is dedicated to everyone stuck in a small space with no nature around during this lockdown period - especially…
What you Can With What you Have
"Now is not the time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is."- Ernest Hemingway A Dance Awake mix for…
Love in the Time of…
This too, shall pass. And all we can do is to just keep dancing. Dropping into our bodies, feeling all the feelings that move through us, letting them move us.…
Just Keep Dancing
BreatheFeel the weight of your body, connected to this EarthAir on your skinEach cell vibrating Heart beatingAnd all there is to do, is Just Keep Dancing:) With so much Love,…
Transitions
I've made some stretched out transitions in this one, as the invitation is to deepen our awareness of how we go from one place, state, feeling, move to another. How…