DANCING DIALOGUE

Wednesday 29th July

"It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else."

- Erma Bombeck 

Dialogue is a conversation between two or more people. These can take many forms but over the past few months we have been dancing our conversations online. While recognising that to dance online is different from the energy of being in the same physical space, at an energetic level we are dancing together and it quite difficult not to eventually feel an affinity for each other.

Dance is a shared experience which starts to create community. We move to the same rhythms and create emotional journeys through the dance. We are each on our own personal journey and so what we feel and experience will be different. However the dance begins to create a sense of inclusion. Our individual journeys are witnessed and shared and so we find ourselves on a path together.

When we open our heart in the dance we suspend that part of us which creates separation and we find each other and so the dialogue begins. An open heart permits us to recognise the other without any expectation or judgement. We need never dance alone. We dance in community. We dance in dialogue.

DANCE WITH INTENSITY

Wednesday 22nd July 2020

Why do we sometimes hold back? Is it because we feel that what we offer is not good enough. Is it misguided modesty? Or that we are saving up the best for some other time? To dance without intensity is to be going through the motions. When we live without intensity we are also just going through the motions.

When we learn to dance with intensity we learn to live with intensity. What does this mean? Bigger movements? Grander gestures? Not necessarily so. Intensity does not always mean bigger and wilder. Intensity by definition is when we bring more of something into focus. I would argue that what we bring into focus to created dances with intensity is more of ourselves.

When we are fully present we engage with all aspects of our self. How are we feeling right now? Where is my body right now? Am I conscious of my movements? When we bring into focused consciousness what we are feeling , what we are thinking and what we are doing then we create dances with intensity. These are the moments when we give authentic expression of our self.

Biodanza: Dance with Intensity - view video here

NOW OR NEVER

Wednesday 15th July 2020

Are we putting our life on hold – waiting for the pandemic to end so that we can get on and do everything we are so wishfully planning. How often do we put preconditions to life? I’ll do this when….. I’ll do this once I sort out….. When I have money/degree/time/etc. I will…...

Life is happening now. The only time we have is the present and as long as we may talk about pre-pandemic, post-pandemic we know that these just represent ideas in the past and future. If we can embrace life as it is presenting to us now, pandemic and all, then we can get back into the flow of living.

The dance does not wait for us to sort things out. Once the music begins it becomes us to enter the dance with our whole being. To immerse ourselves in the experience. To know what it is to be in the flow of life. To say to life NOW OR NEVER!

Biodanza The Dance of Life

HEART CONNECTION

En~Trance

Saturday 11th July @ 2020

• We dance in the CREATION OF OUR DREAMS
• We dance to REINVENT OURSELVES
• We Dance to CELEBRATE LIFE 

When we enter the world of the shaman we transcend time and space. The energetic connection of our hearts takes place beyond the boundaries of everyday perception.

I invite you to dance with me on Saturday. Our physical dance space may be separate but our spirit is connected.

The evening will start with a fire ceremony and the invitation is for each of you to email, or WhatsApp whatever you wish to offer to the fire. I will do it online on your behalf by proxy.

Then we dance; including some beautiful new sounds I have been collecting over the past few months.

It is time we take control again. Exit the realms of sorrow and connect our hearts again in the dance as we celebrate life and create a new path for ourselves.

LIBERATION

Wednesday 8th July 2020

My personal experience with online classes over the past three months is that the power of dance is truly astonishing.  I have witnessed the impact it has had on so many people.   They are different to Biodanza vivencias but they do have an immense value – especially in keeping us sane and connected. 

The dance is powerful when it gives us the opportunity to drop out of our heads and into our body.  The head is a place of perpetual thinking, worrying and stress especially at time like these.  The body is immediate, present and neutral.

It is where we can create and immerse ourselves in the dance.  The focus shifts from the chaos outside of us into a place where we are connected to our own power.

We liberate ourselves from the mind through the dance.

This is the video demonstration from the class last night of Rolando Toro Araneda, creator of Biodanza demonstrating the dance 'Liberation of Movement.  Brazil 2009

Biodanza: Liberation of Movement