The fastest, cleanest, most joyful way to break out of your own box is by dancing. I’m not talking about doing the stand-and-sway. I’m talking about dancing so deep, so hard, so full of the beat that you are nothing but the dance and the beat and the sweat and the heat.
The fastest way to still the mind is to move the body.
Dancing, singing, storytelling and silence are the four universal healing salves.
Healing is movement. Disease is inertia. If you put the body in motion, you will change.
There is a dance that only you know how to do.
Anger is an integrity-producing response to the invasion of your personal boundaries.
Your body is the ground metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopaedia, your life story.
We dance to reclaim our brilliant ability to disappear in something bigger, something safe, a space without a critic or a judge or an analyst.
There is no true joy and compassion except through the difficult emotions – all we get without the experience of fear, anger, and sadness are cheap imitations of joy and compassion – pleasantness and sentimentality.
Mine is the art of inspiring people to turn themselves inside out, transform their suffering into art, their art into awareness and their awareness into action.
If you just set people in motion, they’ll heal themselves.
Movement is my medicine, my meditation, my metaphor and my method, a living language we can rely upon to tell us the truth about who we are, who we are with, and where we are going. There is no dogma in the dance.
Sweat your prayers, dance your pain, and move on.
It’s beautiful to dance alone, beautiful to dance with your children, beautiful to dance with your friends, beautiful to dance with your lover, or even collectively. But the ultimate dance is the one we do by ourselves, when we make ourselves known to God.
The body is the womb of the soul, a begging bowl for spirit...
The dance is not where we lose ourselves. But where we find ourselves.
If you have a body you are a dancer.
The spirit in motion heals, expands, circles in and out of the body, moving through the layers of consciousness from inertia to ecstasy. Open to the spirit, and you will be transformed.
Freeing the body inevitably leads to freeing the heart.
It takes discipline to be a free spirit.