Ecsta-She

I am presenting a dance workshop 28 November in Cairns - venue to be determined.

I will go through the fundamentals of dance as a force to be reckoned with to move any limitation that no longer serves you. I will blend a bit of history, with theory, describe rhythm and facilitate dance exercises for the morning session. We will share a lunch with the arfternoon session dedicated to cutting up the groove on the dance floor, spreading our wings and moving our bodies, "sweating our prayers" (Gabrielle Roth).

The workshop will run from 11 - 4pm, will cost $100/$85 conc. Bookings essential- 0438 218 839....Min of 10, Max 16.
This will be the workshop that helps you realize why you love to dance and the connection to your divine and sexual authentic self.

Just keep moving

Gitama Buddha

Ecstasis- Greek "to move beyond Oneself"

After many attempts to sit and mediate, a young woman cracked a darky, and yelled to the Gods, "I can't do this shit!"- Disappointed, frustrated and angry with herself she cried, "There has to be another way." - The house grew still, and in her vision space she saw a wild woman swing through her doorway. This woman of Blue put her 8 arms on her hip leant forward and said, "So why don't you dance?" "Kali MA" she whispered. From that moment forth her blood whispered and she danced. She studied dance, explored the philosophies of authenticity and dance, sacred dance, she explored the meaning of sovereignty, compassion, power, integrity- in a form she instinctively knew - the dance.

It was this experience that lead me to the work of Gabrielle Roth and I found validation for my spirit, Sharron Rose, " The Path of the Priestess", and Amy Sophia Marashinky's, The Goddess Oracle, were sources for inspiration. I trained with Christina Demmler (Roth trained dancer), studied authentic dance and ecstatic dance. I took other women onto the dance floor and observed the transformation when I invoked sacred space as a shared inclusive community. We offer ourselves up to our primal languages- breath, movement, sound, colour and gesture. As the rhythm takes over us, a wave sweeps up from the floor connecting us to our inner authority, from this place we surrender our feet, ankles, calves, thighs, hips all the way up. Our spines loose and supple, our heads free of chatter, the dance of life is felt and expressed. I observed the shared union on the dance floor supporting expressions of fear, anger, grief, joy and compassion. I was told stories of how participants felt breath and life force seep back through their bones. The blood pumped and the tears flowed, anger stomped and chaos cracked open, how joy is freedom and compassion forgives. Images of stories known and unknown searched for release to find more essence of being.

Ecstatic dance is an ancient movement practice that has been revered as a way to meditate, evoke visionary experience and connect with spirit. It helps to restore the vital of energy of the body and recover lost parts of the soul in the process. By moving our bodies we are able to connect to the physical body-mind-heart and move the soul.....our dance is a reminder of the medicine we hold in our hearts, minds and bodies.......we connect to this power and the medicine moves and is moved by us.

Since this I have completed my counselling diplomas and Graduate Certificate in Artistic therapies through Sophia College (Steiner's 4 fold model of a human being mixed with Buddhist Psychotherapy framework). This creates a dynamic interweaving which creates a set of tools for authentic liberation.

"As above so below, as within as without"

Feelings are neither positive nor negative- they are simply forces in our own stories with their own vibration and function. This is where you practice to let it all go and surrender to your inner knowing, your rhythm and self, warts and all.

It is "rhythm who teaches us to find our own rhythm, as well as teaching respect for the rhythms of all others." In searching for Truth- we find that every life form has its own sacred space and rhythm." (Jamie Sands The 13 Original Clan Mothers.)

To enter sacred space is to say you are willing to dance to your own rhythm and claim all that you are.

"With rhythmic movements she organized as yet unformed elements making orderly patterns" Elrual.com

For inspiration Google: Gabrielle Roth, 5 rhythms dance, Sharron Rose, Ecstatic Dance, Sophia College, Saida Desilets, Rumi Poetry, Divine dance, Goddesses', Shematrix, Dakhini, Skydancer, Kundalini Dance

Bliss

"She is to be known through ecstasy.
She is the extra ordinary lover and PLAY mate
The giver of endless pleasure...
There is more delight in her, than a man can comprehend in a thousand lifetimes.
There is more depth in her than a hundred gods can fathom in a hundred aeons.
And when the immortal council, bewildered by her many enigma’s
sought the unborn God for his advice on how to approach her,
He replies,
“She is to be known through ecstasy”
Surrender to her, she is endless bliss......" Samuel Sagan

Who is this SHE???

These ignited my imagination, fuelled my passion and resolve to find within me this force. I wanted to claim bliss, I wanted to dance with it, taste it, touch it, be moved and be moved by it, to feel this running through my body. I was willing to surrender all traditional containers and constructs of "what it means to be a she" and describe this state and experience for myself as a woman.

My greatest teacher has been the dance.

The ecstatic/bliss state can be found in literature describing dance practice. Trance dance, ceremonial dance found in Indigenous cultures from Australia, Tibet, Native American, Indian, and African all speak of surrender to the divine and rapture of spirit through dance. With music and movement the shape, gesture and flow of bliss can be found in the body and known fully. A dancer can move from what is not bliss back into the rhythm and movement of what is bliss.

As women we no longer have to rely on traditional constructs of what womanhood means. The books and DVDs may give one insight however it is the journey into the body where a woman will find the sensual, ecstatic pleasure and blissful world. A world where pleasure is permitted and sought out as the answer, with no shame, guilt, or fear attached. "What will give you the greatest amount of pleasure in this moment?"
The rhythm and shape of bliss can become the underlying score of everything you do. All you have to do is surrender to her in the dance to find bliss.