There is a dance that only you know how to do

There is a dance that only you know how to do. — Gabrielle Roth

Ecstatic Dance (some thoughts)

The process of learning to find that dance involves listening to the body and watching how it interacts with the environment. Listening and then responding to the music and our surroundings. In time there is no thought, there is only emptiness as the body moves seamlessly in union with the music and the energy of the room filled with other dancers.

In doing this practice one learns how to bring the dance off the floor. All life is a dance, we see. In this way it’s possible to follow the energy of life thus finding the dance that only we know how to dance as Gabrielle Roth speaks about.

And I just read this and had to include it in this post:

Dancing is not rising to your feet painlessly like a whirl of dust
blown about by the wind. Dancing is when you rise above both
worlds, tearing your heart to pieces and giving up your soul.

– Jalal-ud-Din Rumi

Posts on ecstatic dance:

• Ecstatic dance break

• Ecstatic dance: trance and movement for healing and transformation

• Ecstatic dance as practice: there is a dance that only you know how to do

• Nia dance…another method to achieve ecstatic movement

• dance like nobody’s watching…

• Buddha Bar Remix: dance or meditate…

• I can feel both dance and music changing and healing my brain’s neurons

• Kundalini Dance – Tantric Shamanic Dance Journey

• More shamanic dancing and music (or if you want to be clinical, dance and sound therapy)

• Dance meditation, shamanic ecstasy: healing arts. (or get your 26 minutes of bliss, right here, right now FREE download)

• Why I dance: moving the body is a wonderful and therapeutic thing, a celebration of living