dance ETERNAL RHYTHMS

“At the still point of the turning world.

Neither flesh nor fleshness.”

- T. S. Elliot

There are two dances that coexist side by side the one feeding the other. The first is the dance of shape, movement through space, and the connection to chronological time. It is a dance that expresses our relationship to the outside world. It reflects the story we hold about ourselves example. Sometimes if we hold a limiting view of ourselves, it can restrict this dance. In this way the world outside reflects and definitely influences the world inside - the hidden dimensions of being. When I resist the dance, it reinforces that inside of me which resists. When I let go into the dance, it becomes liberating and creates a whole different relationship to self and life.

However there is another dance, that which emerges from the depth of our being. This inner dance is without time and exists in a space of atemporality, without edges and boundaries. This dance emerges via a different route. When we find ways to still the outside world, to still the mind with its stories, and to detach from time and space this dance emerges. Slowness and stillness create greater sensitivity to our senses and our bodies. From the depths of our soul emerges a dance both strange and familiar. This is a dance of remembering and creating - a dance that has the healing power to transcend the ego, our stories, and the stuckness of life.

The invitation of the soul is simply to surrender to the dance – to be held in an ecstatic place beyond words, actions, and our wildest imagination.

_Christos Daskalakos