How I Came to Dance

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Through my cross-cultural dance exposure, I experienced dance as Sacred and Healing. Dance unites in powerful ways those fragmented parts of ourselves. With a vision to support people in a deep and profound relationship with their bodies through dance, I quickly realized extensive experience in dance and studies in both complementary and mind/body therapies was not enough. I needed to dance with the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of myself. When I looked for role models, I couldn’t find any person who employed a multi-dimensional relationship with their Body, so I had to figure out how to be this person myself. This is when I began tuning into my own Body wisdom speaking to me in dance. 

In Indonesia the land of the Gods, I learned the ritual ways of the Cosmic Rhythms of life force and the stories the temple dances originated from. I learned the dance of ceremony; the dance of the temple dancer. I learned the gift of mudra; the power and the dance of the hands. I shook myself home to my Body, to the earth. I learned to spin to the Energy of stars and the planets

In Byron Bay, I trained as a Kundalini Dance Facilitator; I found my feminine tribe and we taught around this country and beyond. The sisters of Kundalini Dance awakened my energy and showed me what to do with it. I learned to dance inside and out. Together we raged, and delighted and slinked into sexy wildness, we danced the rainbow and became fire and water, earth and air where I danced across the threshold of my priestess path. 

In the Dances of Universal Peace; I learned to open my heart, to dance my prayer and about the dance of service. 

In India I learned how the women used dance as Devotion; I learned the dance of beauty and the power and responsibility of dance as a force of energy transmission. 

The sisters of Belly dance; showed me how to be sensual and create rivers of grace in my body, to birth sensuality again and again. I learned to dance by listening and feeling rhythm. 

The way of the Mexican Curanderos taught me the sacred geometries;and how to connect with these Energies through movement, to dance as a living body temple. 

The 9 Sacred Rites of the Peruvian Shamans escorted me into the deep, to dance my own masculine shadow.

My Body based psychotherapy training; taught me how to dance the stories held deep within in my organs. The Divine Feminine called for me in this space and I took refuge inside myself where the ancient faces of the goddess stripped me down and danced with me until I learned to dance my suppressed emotions in the way of my health and life vision rendering me vulnerable, but they had a lot to teach me. I sacrificed my emotions and fell into the expected codes of behaviour to be liked or loved or not be rejected. I believed that someone who represses emotions, who emotionally martyrs themselves for others was more appealing, or deserved to be loved more than someone who lives their passion, their joy and happiness, their upset and anger. But now I know which one I find more appealing. When I am in my heart, in my smile, I remind others of their own dreams. When I am emotionally available, my face shows you how we look when we are in love, it shows you your own strength and about your desires. 

This is the essence of living from emotions. 

There is a sense of freedom, a wild sensuality, and an aura. We look at emotionally available people and want some of what they have, but we don’t know what the magic is. We can see our possibility through the eyes of those who live emotionally. ‘This is how you are’ these faces say to us. Your Soul is a beautiful and colourful kaleidoscope of emotion. 

When I began to take responsibility for my emotional projections and reactions in healing dance, I discovered the mystery and the power of inner wisdom. I felt the hand of God, or the Universe healing and inspiring me and navigating the shape shifting of my brain’s circuitry, triggering chemical pulses at trillions of connections between neurons, leading me to the next step or healing a little corner of my heart.

Inner wisdom, intuition or in other words; the feminine aspect in all of us, is at the core of that. It is the vehicle to access and activate transformation. My breath seeped into forgotten places that were once clenched, stiff and abandoned giving those stuck stories a voice and allowing me to move from there. The pulse of the great Mother rose up in me and guided me in how to heal my inhibitions and idiosyncrasies, my emotional reactions and projections. I learned the dance of reconciliation. I learned how to partner wild expression with physical containment and to balance and control this with masculine intelligence.

Kabbalah Astrology taught me; how Astrological energy influences us. I danced to the rhythm of the Sun and the Moon. I danced power days to align with and access heightened inspiration and intuition. When others saw me dance they remembered something ancient, something that is innate within all of us. My dance became the elements of astrological influences, the artist, the healer, the warrior, the messenger, the teacher, the lover, and the networker. 

I learned to trust and honour the voice of my Body and respect its needs more than an inner saboteur and that’s when I danced into my own womb. When I came home to my womb I heard my birth song; the pain stopped, and my dance began telling the story of the seed of all my self-sabotage, stress, anxiety and depression. It was here, I healed; I was transformed. 

Then the Divine Feminine Spoke to me. 

She said: ‘heal the split between men and women, between the masculine and the feminine within’. The dance of the Divine Feminine and Masculine was teaching me now, it was both me and my ancestry and it is yours too. This integration of healing dance delights has landed to inspire this unity within, so you will never again unconsciously sabotage your wellbeing or your relationships.

Creative Movement Therapy is positioning itself as a vital way to nurture the most valuable relationship you can have; the one with that precious presence working quietly in the background of your Body called life-force. The quality of our life-force comes about through innumerable exchanges of Energy created from our mind and emotions and our lifestyles. 

The Dance journeys are a rare opportunity to experience the magic of belonging to both worlds aiming to lead participants into a greater understanding of the seeds of all issues which are given form through the Body. It is inspired by old ritual dances where the participant communicates their intention to dance with inner wisdom as guidance. Using the dance as a medium, inner wisdom conveys and offers guidance for healing and transformation. With this direct connection, the participant identifies inner wisdom as part of their own identity which resonates with a frequency that says:

'This is the truth of who I am'

And so, Creative Movement Therapy inspires a new form of identity and a life filled with meaning and purpose. The process facilitates the connection of a practice that illuminates our secrets, heals us and brings us home to the absolute miracle of the human Body. 

Learning to express emotions arising from our inner world allows us to anchor these experiences in the physical world and create a Body free from inhibitions where we learn to experience everyday life in ecstasy with an open heart and new potential.

The dance journeys are a ceremonial practice and ritual with a reverence and a special dedication to holding high the dignity, beauty and immortality of your inner wisdom with emotion as its greatest symbol. 

All who participate are transformed in some way. The personal challenges are very real as you break down armouring and confront crippling behaviours but there is an enormous expansion which grabs your heart and makes this journey so humbling yet so special. 

This isn’t something that can be explained. It affects everybody differently, you just have to experience it for yourself; 

It must be experienced!

My cultural dance exposure has resulted in a large vocabulary of movement and dance practices from around the globe that I have put into modern methodology to help you transform self-sabotage, stress, anxiety & depression. Creative Movement Therapy is now an accredited practice under the ‘Healing Dance Modality’ with IICT: International Institute for Complementary Therapists and AON Insurance Australia.

If you can join us for one of the programs, the dance healing way will inspire, inform, support and heal you so let’s have a look at what’s on offer.