Dear Ones,
I hope you're well and engaging in meaningful ways with the process of becoming - in truth and integrity, following your heart’s callings. Dance is a powerful way to ground and center, and a potent form of healing and spiritual practice. Below are my thoughts regarding Dance as Therapy:
Since time immemorial human beings have used communal rituals to cope with their most difficult and terrifying emotions.
In many ancient cultures, these rituals included music, singing, dancing, and reenacting mythical stories. Overtime spiritually rooted rituals have evolved into performing arts. Odissi dance is amongst these art forms which develop out of spiritual rituals. Once served as an offering to the gods in the intimacy of the temples’ shrines, longing to experience Divine Love, we now sanctify the earth we stand upon, draw inspiration from the sky above us, dance with the elements around and within us, to connect with our body and our community wherever we are called.
Our Sense of agency, how much we feel in control, is defined by our relationship to our body. Our daily rhythms define the contours of our day. In order to find our voice, we need to be in our body, able to breathe fully and able to access our inner sensations.
In Odissi dance, we cultivate our mastery of rhythm and flow, as a way to access our sense of power, and take our place in life. We viscerally experience our strength and competence and transform innate potential into limitless creativity.
Sacred dance is not only about expressing that which is sacred. It is an approach to dance that honors our need to connect with our community and to remain connected to our inner experience.
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Join me on Friday for Movement Medicine to experience together the healing power of dance.
Current Class offerings:
Movement Medicine, Fridays at 10 AM PST
Odissi Basics, Mondays at 10 AM PST
Odissi Dance Mixed Levels, Wednesdays, 5:30 PM PST
Sending you a big virtual hug <3 -
Revital