The Dance

Pre-warm-up, there is a short intention setting circle with the facilitator, co-ordinator and set-up folks and you are welcome to be a part of it. Just arrive 5 minutes early. Our warm-up serves as a transition from the mundane outside world into Sacred Space. We center, stretch, start moving the energies through the body…weaving our intentions for the Dance through the room…getting present with ourselves and others. The facilitator of the event will either call you into circle, ask you to keep moving or simply do what comes naturally as he or she presents the guidelines and theme for the Dance. Always universal, yet very human, the Theme is the inspiration, or the result of the facilitator’s process in feeling the emotional/spiritual thread running through the program they created for that Dance only…fresh and different every time. (A brief exercise or visualization might happen or not happen here.)

Music from all over the world is lovingly crafted through a progression of rhythms that comprise a bell-curve of energy. Beginning deep and slow, the tempo and energy increases reaching a shattering/ dissolve release point, opening into a lighter expanse, then winding down and resolving into a cohesive sense of wholeness/ completion.

In your own time, we come back together for our Shareback circle. This is a chance for anyone to express verbally anything pertaining to their own experience in the Dance. This is not a dialog or conversation…it is received by the circle in sacred witness: spontaneous, “Talking Stick” style. If there are no more burning shares and it feels complete, we go around the circle saying our names and then open the circle up to Community Announcements.