The Music
The music is carefully selected to create a magical, high frequency journey for our souls to express themselves. The format usually will follow a flow similar to a wave with a slow start, building up to a climax and then slowing down again to end with stillness and silence. The journey includes elements of the earth (grounding), water (fluidity), fire (passion) and the sky (expansion).
The Wave
The music mostly follows a “Wave journey” inspired by Gabrielle Roth’s 5 rhythms, which starts with flowing, moves to staccato, into chaos, lyrical and ending in stillness.
Flow is associated with grounding and the emotion to move through is inertia or fear. Staccato is associated with expression and the emotion to move through is anger and boundaries. Chaos is associated with release and the emotion to go through is sadness. Lyrical is associated with surrender and the emotion expressed and felt is joy. Finally, Stillness is associated with emptiness and is felt as inner silence while still moving slowly.
All these 5 stages happen automatically with the guidance of the music and the natural rhythms of our body. These stages easily move us through the various emotions with the opportunity to express and allow whatever comes up, within a loving, supportive and conscious container. Each experience is unique and may or may not follow this cycle… which is used as a guide only.
Free Form
Free form dance means that one moves as they feel to move, according to their own body, breath and heart beat. There is no structure or instruction on how to move, and there is no one to follow in the movement. We just keep coming back to the zero point, to the unknown, finding ourselves and our truth and expressing it.
At times there may be some simple instruction given if it is deemed appropriate, depending on the energy in the room.
The dance really helps with body awareness and beyond body with Self awareness. Thus we are not in our heads – thinking, but easily fall into our own rhythm and being.
There is an opening circle to introduce the dance and the guidelines and a brief closing circle for people that want to share something from their experience (as time permits).
General Guidelines
• Non-conversation space, we may make sounds as part of our dance, cell phones off, personal items out of the way.
• Sacred space – supportive – allowance of differences, no expectations of how to dance
• Encourage authenticity and responsibility for your impact within community. This is both an individual and collectively created wave
• Safety/spatial awareness. Non-verbal permission to touch/dance with/enter someone’s space. Whether we dance alone or with others, we are encouraged to be rooted in our own body with self-awareness.
Every single person is welcome, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, political belief, disability, or anything else. Because the focus is on knowing who we truly are beyond form, we will put all our outer differences aside, and leave differences of opinion outside this dance meditation space.
The energy and joy of people dancing in the same space with respect, acceptance and freedom is amazing!
