Read some of Stefan's Poems from the book Dance and Spirituality
Stefan writes:
When I dance my consciousness changes. Dancing disentangles me from all that has become crystallised. Tensions are shaken out. Obsessive thinking stops. Anxiety dissolves. Isolation gives way to interconnection. The playful, joyful Tigger–self awakens from slumber. A pulsating force of Life which pervades everything dances with me. Divinity, no longer just conceptual, becomes palpable in every nerve and cell.
For many who dance, the most profound aspect is spiritual unity. Music and movement integrates. The busy brain – frequently divorced from body and feeling – becomes part of a wider intelligence. A ’bodymind’. This is well described and documented in a book by Cynthia Winton–Henry called Dance: The Joy of Movement as a Spiritual Practice. Cynthia writes about dance as peacemaking, as healing, and as a tool for spiritual direction. [www.skylightpaths.com]
You can dance. Everyone can do it. Shape, size, age, co–ordination or fitness is unimportant, as the main event is invisible. Dance reunites you with your orphaned psyche: your power, grace, mystery and innate sensuousness. It is a spiritual safari.
At sacred/circle dance events many dances are followed by a short silence. This can be the most delicious, full and timeless experience. It is as if the music and movement were a ritual. A question to some ancient Oracle. And in the silence comes a response beyond words. Such moments of deep calm are counterbalanced by times of playful humour which bubbles up from the myriad moods of the music and movements.
When we host dance celebrations there are always outbreaks of live music and singing which add to the festive spontaneity. A sort of ’anti–gravity’ device.
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