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Trance Dance!
Nov 24, 2007

Adapted from Circle of Shaman, by Karen Berggren (Inner Traditions, 1998).

The purpose of a trance dance is essentially to bring you to a place in the sacred zone where the spirits can reach you. Your body becomes the instrument, a direct link to spirit within and without, and responds back as gateways to the numinous begin to open. Trance dance is a form of active meditation through authentic movement. It is a journey to the essential self.

From the beginnings of recorded history we find evidence of dance. It seems that our original relationship to dancing was for the purpose of worship and healing. In this ancient time our ancestors viewed nature and all of its elements as an expression of God. To duplicate or mimic nature through movement and sounds was their first and highest way to connect with spirit, and was the origin of dance.

In more ancient times trance dance rituals were done primarily at night because darkness was a necessary context for participants to focus on their inner experience or visions. Darkness creates a state of suspension or stopping time, an altered state or trance state where there is no one but one's self. It is within this inner journey that we connect with spirit and the truths it reveals.

By dancing within the seclusion of darkness we discover parallel realities where solutions to seemingly unsolvable problems are possible. Through trance dance we disappear, become more like our spirit, and simultaneously less attached to our difficulties, making it possible at these moments to let these problems go, we utilize the body as a vehicle to set the momentum in motion. We can call Trance Dance 'Meditation in Motion' It is not uncommon that spontaneous healing occurs during and after a trance dance session.

When we Dance we dace bold we dance wild we explore our shamanic self we enter into an extraordinary reality where we can shape shift and become the animal spirit that is within us the one we retrieve and nurture, we mimic our ancestors and we dance like we all have been dancing for thousands of years. We allow or give ourselves permission to experience and explore the duality that is within us the masculine and feminine we explore our sensual self and we dance like the wind, we float like a single feather and we get transported to play with the elements of nature. We enter a darkness so deep so intense that we get completely lost and inundated by it, a darkness where sound and silence are the same this is the place the melting pot of all there is, out of these darkness comes inspirations, memories, ancient visions and healing.

We enter the darkness by covering our eyes with a bandana and completely surrender to the process, the music is powerful and hypnotic, the type of music that makes you go deep within, the type of music that makes your body respond to it a spontaneous way moving undulating sensually and feeling it all over your body, everything becomes electric and the wind again transports you to the earth element where you feel the rhythms of your first and second Chakra the drumming and masculine grounding energies of the earth push you deep within to anchor this energy in the place where you can use it the most, in life itself. The earth heats up and the fire begins with a single spark of inner inspiration and the body electric turns into fire wild and out of control, you experience total chaos, everything is disorganized, and the higher wisdom of the body knows exactly where to go and how much you are able to handle, in that chaos is peace and silence everything slows down, you feel your breath the breath of fire and the sweat pours down your body and the music guides you to experience that watery element in fullness you begin to move like the waves of the ocean, you are drenched in the sea of feelings and emotions, images like kaleidoscopic murals become vibrantly alive, you are alive and you feel it. Everything begins to get reorganized and you move to peace and ecstasy a deep connection with the Divine.

Trance dance, is a vehicle the means to heal from within to explore and come face to face with your feelings and emotions to see your past creations and allow your movement to become the Dance of Inner Meditation and Connection with the Self, we Dance to Reinvent ourselves, we Dance to discard Fears and move into the Creation of Dreams, we Dance to Celebrate LIFE!!!
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Posted: Saturday November 24, 2007, 6:47 pm
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