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If you have a body you are a dancer
Your voice takes you to your heart.
If you don't do your dance, who will?
It takes discipline to be a free spirit.
After you leap, before you land, is God.
Ride the energy of your own unique spirit.
The self is a dance, constantly in motion.
There is a dance that only you know how to do
Life is sacred. Life is art. Life is sacred art.
Sweat your prayers, dance your pain, and move on.
The fastest way to still the mind is to move the body
Freeing the body inevitably leads to freeing the heart.
Each of us is a moving center, a space of divine mystery
Put your body in motion and your psyche will heal itself.
If you just set people in motion, they'll heal themselves.
The body is the womb of the soul, a begging bowl for spirit.
Dance has been my medium, my metaphor, my message and my meditation.
Rhythm is our universal mother tongue. It's the language of the soul.
The dance is not where we lose ourselves. But where we find ourselves.
To shed the past, forget the future and fall into the moment feet first.
Dancing, singing, storytelling and silence are the four universal healing salves.
Anger is an integrity-producing response to the invasion of your personal boundaries.
When we give ourselves over completely to the spirit of the dance, it becomes a prayer
Healing is movement. Disease is inertia. If you put the body in motion, you will change.
Between the head and feet of any given person is a billion miles of unexplored wilderness.
Dance is movement, is action, and like all action, it reveals us to ourselves in the doing.
We're constantly changing and any practice meant to serve our authenticity should reflect our fluid nature.
Don't be afraid to show your light.. If it ends up being too much for people.. tell them to wear sunglasses!
We have lost awe and wonder. In reference to the mystery of life itself, we've lost respect for movement in our planet.
You just have to determine to settle for nothing less than being FULLY ALIVE, to show up, be who you are, and share your gifts.
Your body is the ground metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopaedia, your life story.
Shamanic healing is a journey. It involves stepping out of our habitual roles, our conventional scripts, and improvising a dancing path.
We dance to reclaim our brilliant ability to disappear in something bigger, something safe, a space without a critic or a judge or an analyst.
Art is not just ornamental, an enhancement of life. It is a path in itself, a way out of the predictable and conventional... a map to self discovery.
Movement practice gets all your creative juices flowing. It doesn't just release your body, but it opens up your heart and empties out your mind, as well.
We dance to fall in love with the spirit in all things, to wipe out memory or transform it into moves that nobody else can make because they didn’t live it.
Mine is the art of inspiring people to turn themselves inside out, transform their suffering into art, their art into awareness and their awareness into action
Energy moves in waves. Waves move in patterns. Patterns move in rhythms. A human being is just that energy, waves, patterns, rhythms. Nothing more. Nothing less. A dance.
The spirit in motion heals, expands, circles in and out of the body, moving through the layers of consciousness from inertia to ecstasy. Open to the spirit, and you will be transformed.
We all share the wound of fragmentation. And we can all share in the cure of unification. Healing is the unification of all our forces -- the powers of being, feeling, knowing and seeing.
My work is giving space - learning of its way and being in its service at the same time. We each have responsibility to express ourselves. And in this expression is the key to our healing.
In many shamanic societies, people who complain of being disheartened... or depressed would be asked,... When did you stop dancing? ... This is because dancing is a universal healing salve.
Imagination is powerful. Imagination is healing. All you need is the courage to visualize what should be, and then give yourself to its creation. The result may not be what you expected, but it will be right.
Movement is my medicine, my meditation, my metaphor and my method, a living language we can rely upon to tell us the truth about who we are, who we are with, and where we are going. There is no dogma in the dance.
There is no true joy and compassion except through the difficult emotions - all we get without the experience of fear, anger, and sadness are cheap imitations of joy and compassion - pleasantness and sentimentality.
There is a dance only you can do, that exists only in you, here and now, always changing, always true. Are you willing to listen with fascination? If you are, it will deliver you unto the self you have always dreamed you could be. This is a promise.
To sweat is to pray, to make an offering of your innermost self. Sweat is holy water, prayer beads, pearls of liquid that release your past. The more you dance... the more you sweat, the more you pray. The more you pray, the closer you are to ecstasy.
I want to take you to a place of pure magic... It's the place athletes call the "zone". Buddhists call "satori" and ravers call "trance". I call it the Silver Desert. It's a place of pure light that holds the dark within it. It's a place of pure rhythm.
I believe in the power of motion, the wisdom of gravity, the emptiness of true love, the fact that there is no way out but through the body, no way up unless we all go together, no way down unless we follow the beat, no way in unless we embrace the dark.
It's beautiful to dance alone, beautiful to dance with your children, beautiful to dance with your friends, beautiful to dance with your lover, or even collectively. But the ultimate dance is the one we do by ourselves, when we make ourselves known to God.