“Everything that exists in the universe – be it elements, stars, plants or animals, including humans – is a component of a larger living system.
The universe exists because life exists – not the other way around.
Relationships of matter-energy transformation are degrees of integration of life.”
_Rolando Toro Arañeda
How connected do you feel with life? Does it seem as if everything is on hold until ‘all of this is over’? I see many people who have given up on dance at a time when it would be the most beneficial. Dance connects us to life.
Life is not just the events that make up day to day ordinary living. Life is far greater, far more fascinating and far more exciting that we could ever imagine. Life is the great mystery that fires up and drives this entire universe. We can never understand it through the limitations of our mind but we can experience it through the beautiful sensorality of our body.
When we dance we connect to the world through our senses feeling and experiencing movement through space, movements of extension and greater range and movement of the heart. When we bring our mindful attention to the dance integrating all of our experience in the moment we enter that elusive state we call the present. Being present is not a measure of time. Being present is a state in which we perceive the world with heightened sensisitvity. In that moment we are open to feeling connected. Above all we are connected to life force and find that while we momentarily let ourselves be distracted, life is still here, always waiting patiently for us to plug into the joy, pleasure and excitement of living.
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