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.
Each of us is a moving center, a space of divine mystery. And though we spend most of our time on the surface in the daily details of ordinary existence, most us hunger to connect to this space within, to break through to bliss, to be swept away into something bigger than us...
Shed the past, forget the future, and fall into the moment feet first.
Each of us is a moving center, a space of divine mystery.
Rhythm is our universal mother tongue. It’s the language of the soul.
Dance to fall in love with the spirit in all things.
When we give ourselves over completely to the spirit of the dance, it becomes a prayer.
Ride the energy of your own unique spirit.
Imagination is powerful. Imagination is healing. All you need is the courage to visualize what should be, and then give yourself to its creation. The result may not be what you expected, but it will be right.