Comments for DANCEMEDITATION http://blog.dancemeditation.org not an oxymoron Wed, 14 May 2008 22:18:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 Comment on May Day-ly Practice 8 by SONIA http://blog.dancemeditation.org/2008/05/11/may-day-ly-practice-8/#comment-84 SONIA Wed, 14 May 2008 14:32:54 +0000 http://blog.dancemeditation.org/2008/05/11/may-day-ly-practice-8/#comment-84 I love your words...... Brilliant. " I agree in my heart. Flesh is the only destiny, the only real challenge, the house of hope, the Reign of Terror, the prison, the ecstasy, the doorway." I totaly understand you Dunya! Yes!" Flesh is the only destiny"..... to me it rings true; A true form of communion." The body has been my daily challenge, my prison, holding me captive in game here on earth, when all my heart wants to do is soar and bask. The ecstasy and doorway...... yes, total communion, marriage of flesh and spirit...... I have to wonder why I am so inconsistant with daily practice. I love your words…… Brilliant.
” I agree in my heart. Flesh is the only destiny, the only real challenge, the house of hope, the Reign of Terror, the prison, the ecstasy, the doorway.”
I totaly understand you Dunya! Yes!” Flesh is the only destiny”….. to me it rings true; A true form of communion.”
The body has been my daily challenge, my prison, holding me captive in game here on earth, when all my heart wants to do is soar and bask. The ecstasy and doorway…… yes, total communion, marriage of flesh and spirit……
I have to wonder why I am so inconsistant with daily practice.

]]> Comment on May Day-ly Practice 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.

]]> Comment on May Day-ly Practice 3 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.

]]> Comment on May Day-ly Practice 4 by Sonia http://blog.dancemeditation.org/2008/05/06/may-day-ly-practice-4/#comment-74 Sonia Thu, 08 May 2008 04:03:22 +0000 http://blog.dancemeditation.org/2008/05/06/may-day-ly-practice-4/#comment-74 Thank you for your sharing. I love the daily practice. It gives me motivation to be accountable. I have not done the shadow and light pratice yet either..... but the perpetual motion is wonderful. I too have been tired and blobbed onto the couch for resting over the last two weeks. Moving increases my energy and awareness. I feel responsible to nurture this body and fully house spirit in this great gift of flesh, and what better way to do it. I have been feeling a great urgency lately toward this notion. Tonight I really got into some deep breathing with movement and fully, deeply centered. At this point emotion spilled out, because I knew this was "home" and this is where I need to be..... Aware, fully cenetered and present. In this moment of awareness I saw contrast in myself. Rejoice in the homecomeing and remorse for the time away. I feel so peaceful in this state of being and overcome with sorrow that I slip in and out of it and have yet found a way to maintain this state of being in all I do. I felt out of balance, I felt desire and regret and yet a sense of life, knowing and presence. Thank you for your sharing. I love the daily practice. It gives me motivation to be accountable. I have not done the shadow and light pratice yet either….. but the perpetual motion is wonderful. I too have been tired and blobbed onto the couch for resting over the last two weeks. Moving increases my energy and awareness. I feel responsible to nurture this body and fully house spirit in this great gift of flesh, and what better way to do it. I have been feeling a great urgency lately toward this notion. Tonight I really got into some deep breathing with movement and fully, deeply centered. At this point emotion spilled out, because I knew this was “home” and this is where I need to be….. Aware, fully cenetered and present. In this moment of awareness I saw contrast in myself. Rejoice in the homecomeing and remorse for the time away. I feel so peaceful in this state of being and overcome with sorrow that I slip in and out of it and have yet found a way to maintain this state of being in all I do. I felt out of balance, I felt desire and regret and yet a sense of life, knowing and presence.

]]> Comment on May Day-ly Practice 4 by ann http://blog.dancemeditation.org/2008/05/06/may-day-ly-practice-4/#comment-73 ann Tue, 06 May 2008 23:56:45 +0000 http://blog.dancemeditation.org/2008/05/06/may-day-ly-practice-4/#comment-73 I love this sharing as for me the retreat and my preparation for it has begun. I haven't tried the shadow and light practice yet, I just read these practices...but I have been doing a 'jump start motion' practice. Whether I feel like moving or not, I would begin or incorporate into my practice a portion of faster motion in standing and moving between levels. I also noticed in myself perhaps too much of a tendency to nap, being busy, tired and stressed, and so I began deliberately moving, which is a different style for me. I did feel it increasing my connection to myself! I love this sharing as for me the retreat and my preparation for it has begun. I haven’t tried the shadow and light practice yet, I just read these practices…but I have been doing a ‘jump start motion’ practice. Whether I feel like moving or not, I would begin or incorporate into my practice a portion of faster motion in standing and moving between levels. I also noticed in myself perhaps too much of a tendency to nap, being busy, tired and stressed, and so I began deliberately moving, which is a different style for me. I did feel it increasing my connection to myself!

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