A Dance gathering to restore and harmonise the inner emotions of Grief, Love and Joy.
It is an indication and normal practice within Indigenous Tribes that when the people's joy becomes low, a Grief Ritual needs to be held to allow the community's vibration to come back into equilibrium.
Life is constant movement and change. As humans, we are regularly dealing with Transitions of all kinds and sometimes difficult life experiences, like grief and loss, which can leave a heaviness in our minds and hearts and also in our bodies. This can lead to numbness and dissociation.
To support us in this dance, we will use 2 fundamental and powerful practices within Movement Medicine called Awakening the Dancer, and the dance of the 4 Elements, Earth – Air – Fire - Water.
This Dance is a time for you to explore the vertical axis of your Body, Mind, & Heart. As we become more present and our movement vocabulary expands, we become freer. With music as our Vessel, we will together be taking a guided journey away from the outer world into our inner landscape.
In the Awakening the dancer practice we will experiment with moving a different part of our mental identity to different parts of our body, not only does this serve to warm up the body but it creates a shift of identity an expanding identity, which slowly and gently begins to unthaw us and move us from an experience of disembodiment to embodiment.
The Elements exist in a very real way, inside and outside, and they are part of the fabric of day-to-day existence. In dance, we work with them in movement and ritual, which brings us deeply into relationship with our own nature as well as nature itself. The elements are a language that describes some of the different qualities of being human, ie, we can feel someone as watery, fiery, airy or earthy. Our ability to dance with them, learn from them, provides a strong foundation for us to become grounded and gain access to a full spectrum of possibilities.
These practices can be revealing and insightful, allowing us the opportunity to befriend any difficult emotions and bring them consciously into our dance to give shape and visibility to what might need expressing and releasing at this time.
Through our dance, we re-member and we remember again how to pray, we will allow some gentle time to privately honour and offer our respects to those who have passed or perhaps to something else that has left or changed, which you may feel needs some kind of acknowledgement or completion at this time.
We will dance for Self, all of our One-to-One relationships, Community and the Great Mystery.
All of this will be done with wonderful music and minimal facilitation to allow maximum immersion.
Cost: £25
This event is limited to 10 places to allow a comfortable space for us all to Dance.
