“Spirituality guides your life. Culture informs your life.”
- Professor James Small
In a world where we sit for most of the day, shutting down our bodies and concentrating on our work using mental capacities, it’s easy to become disconnected from our physicality. However the way we are in the world and the way we experience life is intricately bound up with the senses especially our kinesthetic sense of movement. This disconnection is to be asleep while in a wakeful state. Sleep in this sense being unaware of life except that narrow aspect we focus on which for many is a small screen.
Becoming awake is not only a matter of connecting to the world around us. When we awaken into our fullness and magnificence we begin to discover that truth – that we are incredible beings of illumination who have the power to change our reality. This is a spiritual awakening to experience every facet of our existence.
In this state it is possible to connect with the archetypes of inner healer and creator we move away from the stories that we have been told by those around us. These stories which we can clearly see in the media are that we are not enough, that we cannot do, that we need someone or something out there to make us better, bigger or beautiful. The truth is that we don’t.
When we enter the dance fully we reach a state where that is quite transcendent where we realise that we are not a body-object dancing in a something-out-there space. In fact we are a body-subject and that our body is the dance and that IT is the experience we are having. By feeling into our movements and feelings, our experience is that we are the dance and that we are creating the experience. This is a powerful spiritual place when we experience agency. This shifts the focus from the world out there to recognising the centrality of our being in our own life. When we give ourselves over to the dance fully we literally shut down the mind – and of course, all the stories we tell ourselves or that have been told to us.
In this space the messages and wisdom of the body and more begin to emerge and we become our own healer. At least once in everyone’s dance experience we have cried, we have laughed, we have been ecstatic, we have been any one of the many emotions of the human condition. These have emerged spontaneously even if afterwards we interpret and rationalise them. A spiritual awakening is not necessarily to climb into a fiery chariot and float into the clouds. It’s a real experience we can have in the here and now through our dance when we become fully present in every sense of the word – when we wake up.
SPIRITUAL AWAKENING
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