Comments on: May Day-ly Practice 3 http://blog.dancemeditation.org/2008/05/05/may-day-ly-practice-3/ not an oxymoron Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:46:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Dunya http://blog.dancemeditation.org/2008/05/05/may-day-ly-practice-3/#comment-76 Dunya Thu, 08 May 2008 16:36:07 +0000 http://blog.dancemeditation.org/2008/05/05/may-day-ly-practice-3/#comment-76 Shamsi, this is beautiful...Insightful. The nature of one-brain-sided-ness (a new link of coinage) in our world is probably why those of us who practice Dancemeditation need it so much. Really need to move and be in another way in our time and with ourselves. Shamsi, this is beautiful…Insightful. The nature of one-brain-sided-ness (a new link of coinage) in our world is probably why those of us who practice Dancemeditation need it so much. Really need to move and be in another way in our time and with ourselves.

]]> By: Shamsi http://blog.dancemeditation.org/2008/05/05/may-day-ly-practice-3/#comment-75 Shamsi Thu, 08 May 2008 16:23:24 +0000 http://blog.dancemeditation.org/2008/05/05/may-day-ly-practice-3/#comment-75 I've been wanting to share how important this particular practice is for me, and how much I appreciate your view on the light and dark exericise. It's always under the surface in most of my practices as well as my daily going-ons. I struggled with this so much during 2006/2007 due to injury based on my own 'side dominance' and at that time it lead me to realizations about how I use my entire left side as a 'crutch' both physically and emotionally...which is a little difficult to explain here. Oddly, this has been coming up across the board for me in the last few months; in all my different lives: bellydance, spirituality, relationships, Dancemeditation. Recently I read a post on tribe.net from Camie Vance. It was an older post, but in it she references a book "The Alphabet vs the Goddes" by Leonard Shlain (http://www.alphabetvsgoddess.com/) and I admit that I am very intrigued. Apparently the book theorizes that "the process of learning alphabetic literacy rewired the human brain...." additionally "Shlain foresees that increasing reliance on right brain pattern recognition instead of left brain linear sequence will move culture toward equilibrium between the two hemispheres." I'm sure Urvashi would have some beautiful insights here.... I am personally still (and feel I will be forever) working on the "equilibrium" through constant dialogues between my right and left sides. Now I feel an interest in going back to Bainbridge-Cohen's work regarding child development and see if I can trace some right/left brain hemisphere patterns in my own development. I’ve been wanting to share how important this particular practice is for me, and how much I appreciate your view on the light and dark exericise. It’s always under the surface in most of my practices as well as my daily going-ons. I struggled with this so much during 2006/2007 due to injury based on my own ’side dominance’ and at that time it lead me to realizations about how I use my entire left side as a ‘crutch’ both physically and emotionally…which is a little difficult to explain here.

Oddly, this has been coming up across the board for me in the last few months; in all my different lives: bellydance, spirituality, relationships, Dancemeditation. Recently I read a post on tribe.net from Camie Vance. It was an older post, but in it she references a book “The Alphabet vs the Goddes” by Leonard Shlain (http://www.alphabetvsgoddess.com/) and I admit that I am very intrigued. Apparently the book theorizes that “the process of learning alphabetic literacy rewired the human brain….” additionally “Shlain foresees that increasing reliance on right brain pattern recognition instead of left brain linear sequence will move culture toward equilibrium between the two hemispheres.”

I’m sure Urvashi would have some beautiful insights here….

I am personally still (and feel I will be forever) working on the “equilibrium” through constant dialogues between my right and left sides. Now I feel an interest in going back to Bainbridge-Cohen’s work regarding child development and see if I can trace some right/left brain hemisphere patterns in my own development.

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