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Enlightenment Through Dance
promotes physical, mental
and emotional healing. By
enhancing your intimate
connection with Spirit, it
may increase insights about
your well-being, what you
are feeling, and life in
general. It can help make
you more aware of influences
in your life and how you
react to them.
At the physical level, this dance
promotes flexibility, muscular toning, strength and
good posture. Enlightenment Through Dance is not based on
the idea of tensing muscles, as in some other
western dance forms (such as ballet); it is actually
the reverse: you do not have to be tense to be in
control. Your body can be relaxed and still be in
perfect control of your movement. This lesson can be
applied to other aspects of our lives, as well…just
by acknowledging the truth that we do not need to be
tense to be in control, but the opposite, very
relaxed into the core of our being.
At the emotional level, Enlightenment Through Dance banishes insecurities, tensions, and emotional
blocks, thus promoting creativity, confidence,
freedom and sensuality.
At the mental level, it develops
concentration, mind/body coordination, intuition,
and relaxation.
This dance also has a soothing, hypnotic effect on
the audience, helping to relax and heal them as
well. Healing occurs because the mind steps away
from its rationality and allows the spirit to be in
the moment where perfection resides. Beholding the
dance, the audience is captivated to share the bliss
of the dancer. There is a communion of energy and
spiritual bounding that emerges in a kindred way
throughout the performance.
The movements are performed in isolation, with
parts of the body moving independently. It involves
geometric shapes, such as spirals, infinity signs,
and circles. These shapes are related to nature
symbolism and subconscious archetypes that connect
us to our humanity and divinity, and promote a sense
of unity between dancer and audience. This is
because all these forms are infused in nature, in
our bodies, and in the heavenly bodies. You can see
them in turtle shells, spider webs, snakes, trees,
the cells in our bodies, on our finger prints, and
in the galaxies! We are part of all these nature
aspects, and dancing the symbolism awakes this
relationship with nature, mostly forgotten in our
modern life.
This dance promotes a feeling of unity, of eternity
and of belonging, something that we all long for. So
dance to your heart's content! It not only feels
good, and is therapeutic, but your audience will
feel the healing as well!
Excerpt from the
Enlightenment Through Dance
Book, by Hozuhni
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