Best way to describe it:
"Many names for the dance...ONE mystical experience"
The Name of the Dance...
Dance meditation is a well-known spiritual practice for so many around the world. There are many names, levels and modalities to experience this form of meditational movement: ecstatic dance, conscious movement, intuitive movement, sacred dance, somatic dance, trance dance, spiritual dance, worship dance, etc. Some are more social and interactive, others are deeply introspective and individual. However, they all provide healing and liberation of your true self. l like to call my offerings Zen Danza.
Regardless of the name and format, there is only one way to describe the dance: it is a spiritual, healing and transforming experience of movement meditation where you dance to your heart's content and into the stillness within. Just like yoga or meditation, you experience the same trance states but instead of sitting still or holding positions, you move and dance into the trance. You quiet your mind, release stress and emotions and achieve the same healing benefits and wellbeing. It is all about your connection within.
It was precisely through a meditation that the name Dances of Spirit™ was first revealed to me. Facilitating the process and later developing ZenDanza™ has been the unfolding of my life-purpose. The experience has been life changing to me and for so many others. I've seen their lives become aligned with their divine purpose and flow easily just like a dance…hence, the name Dances of Spirit™.
“I Praise the dance, for it frees people from the heaviness of matter and binds the isolated to community.
Dance is a transformation of space, of time and of people who are in constant danger of becoming all brain, will or feeling.”
~ St. Augustine
Photo credit: Lenna Young Andrews
