Soul is our birthright. Movement is our birthright. The embodied soul moving is our passage to joy. We are bodies made to enjoy being on the earth, in the gravitational field, walking, stomping, swinging our arms, engaging in contactful bodily play with our self and one another.

Unlike wild animals, we do not get to enjoy fur flying or baring huge canine teeth. We are domesticated and have learned to “use our words” - and only some words, at that. Yet our full endowment is not to be tamed; we hunger for full expression of our embodied being. We hunger to experience wild, unfettered play.

In more spiritual terms, we are instruments. Our flesh resonates and is made to be plucked, vibrated and strummed. We are born with the capacity to feel, listen and resonate deeply when we are touched or moved by anything – inside, out, or beyond – including the simple, miraculous rhythm of our own breath.

In movement practices we move our awareness right into the heart of our matter. Like the hokey pokey, we place our whole self in the embodied moment. We both listen and move: receptivity and action in conversation with one another.

We are creatures built to receive and act at one and the same moment.
In an awake movement practice, we discover and enjoy this simple truth.
In receiving and acting at the selfsame moment, everything is present,
and everything is full, including our emptiness. 

Dance is moment by moment. Life is moment by moment. In dance, we attend to the moment by moment truth of our existing. Who we are is an appearing of experience that arises on the in-breath and the out-breath. When we embrace this truth and turn towards our own self in hospitable, welcoming movement, we stand in the truth of our aliveness. 

And, there is always the over-the-top joy of truly surrendering, being moved from the core, expressing I Am through release and letting go. Along with breath, music is the Beloved whose arms will hold us when we choose to let go. Music and movement beckon: come, be yourself, with yourself, in moving community. This is where you belong.  

We each were born. We each will die. Life is a continual moving and unfolding in between. Are you willing to be awake within this flow of being?

There are countless kinds of movement practices, including:Buddhist Meditation, Authentic Movement, Contact Improvisation, 5Rhythms (www.gabrielleroth.com; www.spiritweaves.com), Continuum (www.continuummontage.com) . My recommendation: find a local dance community and get your boogie on! See you on the dance floor…