dancescapes

You are much more than intellect and reason.
You are more than a thinking body.
You are this human with senses of touch, sight, hearing, taste and smell.
You are instinct and intuition.
You are feeling and love.
You are spirit imbued with the force of LIFE.
Awareness – perception, and through your dance, you are
A DREAMER

We dance into our own personal dreamscapes. In some shamanic traditions, dance is used to explore one’s inner world, including personal dreams and visions. When we dance with intention and focus, we too can delve into the dancescapes to access wisdom and insights hidden within the movements, feelings and experience that make up our dance.

Dance is non-linear. We cannot simply ask a question and expect an answer. That is the way of the rational mind. The pathway that dance offers us is to ask the question, and to dancing beyond the limitations of the habitual mind and patterns of behaviour so that we touch the unexpected with surprise and delight for in that moment there is magic.

Our answers come through feeling. A sensation that is a deep embodied knowing. When it happens the vibrations of excitement indicate to us that deep down we can trust. After the dance, as we settled down those feeling vibrations turn into insight as they surface to breathe life in our conscious minds. This sounds like magic – because it is!

_Christos Daskalakos