Rhythm

Do you feel the rhythm?

RHYTHM = measured flow; movement in time; disposition; Soul

QUESTION: Do you feel the rhythm?

STORY: When I moved back to Wisconsin in 1990 after living in California for 20 years, I discovered a group that gathered weekly to dance at a community room looking out over Lake Michigan. There were probably 200 women. Yes it was a lesbian organization. Here is where I met my life partner, Cindy. We danced, guided by our inner spirit. This, to me, was special and different from learning line dancing or ballet or hip hop or jazz or an Irish folk dance. When the dance is dancing you - you don’t know where the dance will take you. You just move your body guided by your heart and you enter into a sacred space and you walk down a new street that you have never walked on before. It’s like - you open a door and walk into a brand new room.

QUOTEs

“Love is a lot like dancing; you just surrender to the music.” ~ Pierce Brosnan

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. ~ Alan Watts

“Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.” ~ Martha Graham

“Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the Soul.” ~ Plato

EXERCISE

STOP.

Sit quietly. Assume an erect posture. Sense the breath.

Relax. Sit calmly and feel a sacred Energy inviting you to dance into a new insight. Some kind of music is stirring in you.

Get your pen and paper and let the rhythm guide your hand as you write words or draw lines that express an Energy that is dancing inside you.

Be safe not knowing what words or images will flow from your hand. Move forward into your day feeling the rhythm of the Energy within you.