Thursday, December 25, 2008
Vision
Gathering seeds and planting them, seeding the cycles of growth, sensing into what’s hidden beneath the obvious, seeing the big picture in the details, embracing vision in totality… With a soft focus, we relax and allow the images to form, receptive to guidance and intuition. With a hard focus, our intensity burns through barriers seeking clarity, truth and direction with principle and purpose. Beautiful colors and patterns appear as food for the soul, through the windows of our eyes, outer and inner. The eagle and the mouse both exist within us as capacity, as potential and as resource. In our minds eyes we can see where we are, where we’d like to be and where we are going, as our being gathers direction and our inner GPS guides us. All inner resources can be turned towards that which our vision reveals. Vision can be myopic, kaleidoscopic, tunneled, grand and vast, compassionate, limited, shamanic; astounding is the breadth and scope of all that we can barely glimpse: angels and demons, beauty and suffering, life and death are all included in whole of our existence, which we may comprehend. Standing on top of the mountain panoramic vision opens to immensity, while appreciating also the lines on a leaf, the intricacy of microscopic detail. Behold! Light, illumination, beauty and terror, sparkle and scratch on the surface of our vision, entering our consciousness in moments we are gifted and blessed to glimpse! Seeing what is behind, around, before and along-side us, the currents of our vision are as great as the oceans we swim in. Vision is a candle dancing in the dark night. Vision is the sun rising and setting, the clouds gathering, images birthing and dissolving, a chaotic/busy desk and a clear mind. Vision gathers and leads our hearts along paths of unfolding experience.
Friday, December 5, 2008
Free-Form Expressive Dance as Path
This is our Temple, Dance is our path, our meditation, our holy offering, our devotional practice, our mirror, our path to ecstatic union w the sacred embodied, our own unique and shared, collective expression of the divine creative urge… You find yourself in a roomful of moving, pulsating, vibrant, consciously kinetic beings,… you explore the space, ground your being on the floor and play with the openings, the personal, the interpersonal and the meta-spacious,… its like a dream, music bodies moving whichever way bodies prefer to move,…
We dance to ground our sense of Belonging on this earth, to deepen our sense of being at home here and now, in body, soul and community…
We dance to release our thoughts, to liberate ourselves from mental slavery, from the minds’ labyrinths and amazing mazes, to emancipate ourselves from the tyranny of the verbal.
Our language becomes an alphabet of movement.
Innate, proprio-ceptive, kinesthetic, spatial intelligence thrives with us on the dance floor, living and breathing in our blood and bones, muscles and glands, awakened and ignited, celebrated and inspired.
We meditate on and in patterns and rhythms and breath and sole to the floor walkabout,… there we are: body, mind, heart, soul and presence. Our companions may or may not be previous acquaintances; a sensual dance evolves w someone whose name you do not know; this is part of the altered space you are in, names are not needed in necessary in this social space, you can dance beneath, around, under and over names. We can watch, listen, launch, glisten, laugh, cry, sing, try, relax, serve, connect, be shy,… for this is an elegant mirror of the soul.
Improvisational, Free-form Dance is a mirror, reflecting us in and thru various lenses and filters:
Breath: grounding in your breath, you feel tired or energetic, nervous or aroused, and notice your state of presence.
Impulse: how does your body want to warm up? What is your soul yearning for, aloneness, contact, slow movement or fast, stillness or raucous contact? You can follow your impulses and see where they lead! You can find another soul to dance w and see what the synergy of that combination feels like. Where do these impulses come from – head, heart, belly, feet,… your dance partner?
Beauty: the beauty around us is a reflection of our own light.
Dance is an intra-psychic exploration. We observe what arises in our consciousness and we move in accordance, or as counter-point. In avoidance or in absorption. In identification or in projection. In defense or in pure openness and ecstatic bliss. In mental pre-occupation or in release of thought and in blessed awareness, in clear pools or in kinetic breezes. Any and all states of consciousness may show up: our maps inform our movement, and we dance to explore new terrain, new territory, and to refresh and shift our perspectives, with each movement and turn! We tune in to the moving center and watch what shapes it acquires and takes on, and then, what happens next. We enjoy surprises or stay w the familiar to ground and source our true being, beneath the intellect and thought and plan… we allow our moves to emerge from the grooves, from the beats and rhythms that our maestro DJ spins… and from the fountain of potential within and around us… we dance in the fountain of frothing bubbles, , the cauldron of passionate energy, élan vital’, creative source… and the more we immerse, the greater the swim! The more we tune in to the currents, the greater our lift into the breeze and passageways! Our spirits our nourished and our souls more deeply grounded in presence and expression.
Free-form, Improvisational Dance is a co-creative interplay, a synergy, a meeting space of artists, muses, warriors, sisters, brothers, lovers… each sovereign and each a mirror. We sense our bodies, our souls,… and others in the interpersonal space, in a grand synergy of possibility in motion. Eyes may meet, glance, gaze or avert, windows into our souls, into exchange, into curiosity and the unknown, into the familiar and into meeting… We sense the resonances and the harmonies, the rhythm and the beat, and feel ourselves drawn or deflective, joined or repelled, sensitive or disinterested, hunting, gathering, warrior-like, or fools dancing on the edges of time, all archetypes collected and combined, to what depths? To what expanse? who leads, who is follows, how consciously connected is the attunement,… these personal elements may dance in the mix. When we follow the contact and not control where it leads, there can be some exciting turns and unexpected moments, graceful, awkward, elegant, clumsy,… surrendered to the moments journey
Dance is a relational mirror: single or coupled, how does your relational status play out on the dance floor? What are your parameters: as a couple, these need to be clearly negotiated or your relationship can find trouble! For there is enticement and attraction, sensual play and shakti flirtation, meetings of the soul and myriad possibilities “on the floor” that suggest “off-the-floor” possibilities… some come for that, for the dynamic interplay. Others more committed to the intra-psychic explorations and not drawn to the dyadic except in special conditions. How is that for you?
Relational elements in the mix: Entering, being chosen, trios, entrapment, choosing, hunting/ stalking/ pursuit, discovery, delight! Clumsiness and grace, laughter and prayer, sacredness and irreverence… we share a devotional path…
Spirals and circles, lines and angles, repetition and chaos, wildness and stillness, stretching and reaching, flowing and flying,… the bubbling cauldron of our collective soul.
We sense the space, the meta zone, the emptiness within and between and around all of us, where we are free of our words, free to move however we like, we dance on the margins of the page, in the sphere of potential...
and we sense our tribe, our community of co-liberators and free spirits, our collective-kinetic, pulsating, vibrating soul-bodies moving in transcend-dance, beyond ego and self and thought and singularity, like a pod of dolphins, moving as one, in stellar moments of tribal consciousness, connected beyond separate boundaries, attuned in the dance, surrendered to the flow and the beat
We give thanks for music and the muse, this moving art-form and our co-conspiralators,… our feet and our ears and our hearts and our release, for the dance of our souls and our lives and our inter-beings, our center and our Source.
We dance to ground our sense of Belonging on this earth, to deepen our sense of being at home here and now, in body, soul and community…
We dance to release our thoughts, to liberate ourselves from mental slavery, from the minds’ labyrinths and amazing mazes, to emancipate ourselves from the tyranny of the verbal.
Our language becomes an alphabet of movement.
Innate, proprio-ceptive, kinesthetic, spatial intelligence thrives with us on the dance floor, living and breathing in our blood and bones, muscles and glands, awakened and ignited, celebrated and inspired.
We meditate on and in patterns and rhythms and breath and sole to the floor walkabout,… there we are: body, mind, heart, soul and presence. Our companions may or may not be previous acquaintances; a sensual dance evolves w someone whose name you do not know; this is part of the altered space you are in, names are not needed in necessary in this social space, you can dance beneath, around, under and over names. We can watch, listen, launch, glisten, laugh, cry, sing, try, relax, serve, connect, be shy,… for this is an elegant mirror of the soul.
Improvisational, Free-form Dance is a mirror, reflecting us in and thru various lenses and filters:
Breath: grounding in your breath, you feel tired or energetic, nervous or aroused, and notice your state of presence.
Impulse: how does your body want to warm up? What is your soul yearning for, aloneness, contact, slow movement or fast, stillness or raucous contact? You can follow your impulses and see where they lead! You can find another soul to dance w and see what the synergy of that combination feels like. Where do these impulses come from – head, heart, belly, feet,… your dance partner?
Beauty: the beauty around us is a reflection of our own light.
Dance is an intra-psychic exploration. We observe what arises in our consciousness and we move in accordance, or as counter-point. In avoidance or in absorption. In identification or in projection. In defense or in pure openness and ecstatic bliss. In mental pre-occupation or in release of thought and in blessed awareness, in clear pools or in kinetic breezes. Any and all states of consciousness may show up: our maps inform our movement, and we dance to explore new terrain, new territory, and to refresh and shift our perspectives, with each movement and turn! We tune in to the moving center and watch what shapes it acquires and takes on, and then, what happens next. We enjoy surprises or stay w the familiar to ground and source our true being, beneath the intellect and thought and plan… we allow our moves to emerge from the grooves, from the beats and rhythms that our maestro DJ spins… and from the fountain of potential within and around us… we dance in the fountain of frothing bubbles, , the cauldron of passionate energy, élan vital’, creative source… and the more we immerse, the greater the swim! The more we tune in to the currents, the greater our lift into the breeze and passageways! Our spirits our nourished and our souls more deeply grounded in presence and expression.
Free-form, Improvisational Dance is a co-creative interplay, a synergy, a meeting space of artists, muses, warriors, sisters, brothers, lovers… each sovereign and each a mirror. We sense our bodies, our souls,… and others in the interpersonal space, in a grand synergy of possibility in motion. Eyes may meet, glance, gaze or avert, windows into our souls, into exchange, into curiosity and the unknown, into the familiar and into meeting… We sense the resonances and the harmonies, the rhythm and the beat, and feel ourselves drawn or deflective, joined or repelled, sensitive or disinterested, hunting, gathering, warrior-like, or fools dancing on the edges of time, all archetypes collected and combined, to what depths? To what expanse? who leads, who is follows, how consciously connected is the attunement,… these personal elements may dance in the mix. When we follow the contact and not control where it leads, there can be some exciting turns and unexpected moments, graceful, awkward, elegant, clumsy,… surrendered to the moments journey
Dance is a relational mirror: single or coupled, how does your relational status play out on the dance floor? What are your parameters: as a couple, these need to be clearly negotiated or your relationship can find trouble! For there is enticement and attraction, sensual play and shakti flirtation, meetings of the soul and myriad possibilities “on the floor” that suggest “off-the-floor” possibilities… some come for that, for the dynamic interplay. Others more committed to the intra-psychic explorations and not drawn to the dyadic except in special conditions. How is that for you?
Relational elements in the mix: Entering, being chosen, trios, entrapment, choosing, hunting/ stalking/ pursuit, discovery, delight! Clumsiness and grace, laughter and prayer, sacredness and irreverence… we share a devotional path…
Spirals and circles, lines and angles, repetition and chaos, wildness and stillness, stretching and reaching, flowing and flying,… the bubbling cauldron of our collective soul.
We sense the space, the meta zone, the emptiness within and between and around all of us, where we are free of our words, free to move however we like, we dance on the margins of the page, in the sphere of potential...
and we sense our tribe, our community of co-liberators and free spirits, our collective-kinetic, pulsating, vibrating soul-bodies moving in transcend-dance, beyond ego and self and thought and singularity, like a pod of dolphins, moving as one, in stellar moments of tribal consciousness, connected beyond separate boundaries, attuned in the dance, surrendered to the flow and the beat
We give thanks for music and the muse, this moving art-form and our co-conspiralators,… our feet and our ears and our hearts and our release, for the dance of our souls and our lives and our inter-beings, our center and our Source.
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