Soul Motion: Movement Meditation
Soul Motion encourages seeing with the mystic's heart and eyes, a way of penetrating to the invisible core to things; stillness in motion, motion in stillness; the silent song. Using embodied presence and breath awareness to focus attention and hone space, students learn to become increasingly conscious of their whole being, whether in motion or stillness.

Vinn's Journal

September 2009

This practice of conscious dance continues to revive my spirits just when I anticipate that there may be approaching a period of languid hanging about in a waiting room of despair.

The dance room continues to house the bodies of the people in various shapes, internal and outer. Each of us bringing a dance that is grounded in the experiences of loss and laughter, joy and jumbled nerves, and shadows and shouts of awakening. I remain in a position of deepening gratitude for the way in which the people dance.

We are the descendents of the first dancers who used bodies in motion to implore the One Presence for rain to nourish the crops of sustenance. They lifted their gaze and lowered their weight and they spoke of birth and death as their bodies swayed, gyrated, quivered, and leapt among the fires of community. They knew that to accomplish the things of living in the world they needed to speak to the world of sky, earth, sun, and water through gesture and rhythm.

There was no worry in the dance. There was only the rightness of alignment and allowing the world to shower the people with natural events in the way the rains showered the fields. The dance held for the people a link to the animating force of creativity and destruction and held proof of the ways to summon warrior and visionary for furthering the welfare of the people.

They are the grandparents of all ecstatic and conscious dancers and we share in our DNA this power and presence to conjure the forces of nature and align ourselves directly with them. Our interior world is watered in the dance and gives sustenance to the crops of consciousness.

We are bodies and souls in motion giving birth to the renewal of possibilities and accompanying the death of that which no longer serves the opening hearts. With souls in motion we call forth the warrior within to stand guard to all the ways we block the awareness of love and joy’s presence.

Let us continue to recognize our legacy as conscious dancers, the rich heritage of alignment of the many with the one, and the miracle mindedness that is in communion with all souls in conscious movement.

stay grace full   vinn marti   September 16, 2009

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