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, …
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 A burnt out hot mess Then maybe it’s time to try softer. Gently finding yourself In the it is like this and I am here …
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. Dancing has given space to be with that grief, to move with it (even if sometimes it’s just the movement of a tear down a …
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 this way or that, that sometimes we end up making choices that aren’t the best for us (well, I have in the past). The course …
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. …
“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 recall,go to the limits of your longing.Embody me. Flare up like a flameand make big shadows I can move in. Let everything happen to you: …
We are the stardustand the stars. Dancing Specks of dustAnd the whole universe
Dance
Listening with your body
As it reveals you
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
With love and a deep appreciation I dance. We have only this moment.
“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.
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 through that tiny doorFind your Soul restored
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 moved One of the invitations in Dance Awake is to dance with eyes open or closed. Eyes open generally brings more awareness to the space …
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…
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 space to feel and to move with those feelings. Trust your body to know what it’s doing and lean into it. There is no space …
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 facet of your biospiritual ecology. How does your spirit express, without words, in your dance?
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 the skin of another. The subtle and unsubtle differences. Allowing understanding beyond limited experience. Understanding from your heart, as it connects to another heart. Expanding …