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Comment on about by Jena Strong

Jena Strong — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 18:16:24 +0000

Anastasia – Remember me? This is a wonderful bio. I am so happy to find you here, being so fully your awesome self in this world! Would love to reconnect.

Jena

Comment on off like a prom dress by Anastasia

Anastasia — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:07:27 +0000

Thanks for these beautiful comments. I’m reminded for some reason of my undergrad thesis about health reformers. One tended to be very, very uptight about the dos and don’ts of the body. But he was a big advocate of dance. I should look it up as his prose is quite funny.

Comment on off like a prom dress by jess

jess — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 22:28:57 +0000

Dance an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting. Wikipedia

As a dancer and yoga practitioner, yoga allows me to develop awareness of the mind/body/soul connection in a way that isn’t always smiled upon in the studio. While in a studio or class setting, dance that is, we often feel the need to push, push, push with out notice of what is actually happening within, around and to the body just so long as you “get it”. Got it? Yoga has transformed the way i look at or feel a body in space by teaching me not to push but to notice the subtlety within the movement and radiate from there and more importantly the space around it. When i move/dance these days, it is about feeling the space around my body, ingesting or embodying it within and then setting it free. Free….ahhh that brings us to another topic where yoga influences dance, Freedom. Freedom and peace within yourself about where you are in your life, freedom from a negative, warped body image (huge in the dance world), and freedom to express yourself without judging yourself or fear of being judged, freedom to be free, freedom to be perfect just the way you are and freedom to feel everything as one.

What is dance again…dance is movement and what initiates all movement…the breath. At the end of the day dance is yoga, yoga is dance (everything as one) and whether it is the obviously physical movement of the body which can release and offer a spiritual experience or the dance of the breath within the subtle realm to bring oneness, it is dance it is yoga. So go out and dance, go out and breath with the purest clear & clean intention and then share your light. For we all breath, therefore we all dance.

Comment on off like a prom dress by Peter F

Peter F — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:38:08 +0000

I’ve been around a lot of dancers in the last three years, and most of them love yoga. My guess is that it’s delightful to be working within the physical comfort zone for a change — dancing is working at the edge, like all true art. And like everyone, they are trying to find the way to reach the tranquil space that yoga brings. It’s interesting to have dancers in class for the first time. They look like experts, but have as many questions at the end as anyone.

Comment on kirtan this saturday by Anastasia

Anastasia — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:47:09 +0000

Thanks for that, Peter. That’s yet another aspect. There’s always that feeling when you produce something really good (or even teach a great class) that you had nothing to do with it at all, it only happened because you got out of the way. I will have to make it down to Feature, Inc. Looks amazing.

Comment on kirtan this saturday by Peter F

Peter F — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:47:21 +0000

I like this theme of yours about art and yoga. I mentioned it at my kirtan: bhakti yoga is the generating of meditative state through devotion; but I’ve always found art leads to a meditative state, so the tunes I’ve written are sufficient to the process in spite of — or coincident with — the bhakti aspect. Secondly, there’s an exhibit of tantric drawings (given by masters as objects of meditation) at Feature, Inc. gallery in the Lower East side. It is gorgeous and speaks to the common goal of the best art and spiritual practice. (details at http://www.peterferko.com)

Comment on 5,000 years? by Candace

Candace — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:32:38 +0000

Hard to believe it has been around for that long and I just got started in it lol.

Comment on 5,000 years? by Anastasia

Anastasia — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:53:43 +0000

Ben, I knew that was coming! I’ll answer in another post, because I’ve more to say. xoA

Comment on 5,000 years? by Ben

Ben — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:49:54 +0000

Anastasia, while I agree with you on keeping the yoga elitism in check, I personally believe that kinds of consciousness one accesses by practicing yoga are as old as humanity itself. While of course yoga in its popular form today is nowhere near 5,000 years old, I regard anything that brings one closer to the full embodiment and expression of oneself to be “yoga.” Regardless of the dating of the sun salutation and the yoga sutras, the experience of harmony and wholeness is ageless.

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