Under The Night Sky
FREE!
Pre-Celebration Workshop
Yoga Trance Dance
(optional!)
On the Aerie's new terrace, under the hopefully starry night and around a warm fire, we'll swirl & twirl to the sounds of our favourite World music artists.
Also featuring shaminic drumming with Michel.
No formal yoga training required Participation is expected....
looky lous will be discouraged!
Introduction to
Yoga Trance Dance
with Liz
$20 w/ advance reservation
$25 day of event
3-5 pm
An introduction and opportunity to practice and modify the simple movements that comprise
Trance Dance
Dance and yoga, particularly hatha yoga, are ways of
calling us back into our bodies to infuse our being
with life energy known in yoga as "prana."
Prana is the animating force the energy of being alive
and is most clearly felt through breathing.
From the yogic view, the great breath flowing through us all is intelligence or consciousness itself. With flow yoga, we let the intelligence of our breath lead movement the way a sailor tacks with the wind. Trance dance has a similar focus. Rather than emphasizing an outward performance, the goal of trance dancing is to let your creative energy move through you to be guided by spirit (or "spiritus," which is the Latin root for inspiration the place where life breath and enlivening creativity meet). Thus, in yoga trance dance, form serves spirit, structure supports intuition, yoga prepares you for free-form dance, and your dance opens your being for a greater experience of the unified self that is yoga.
Seen at last Spring's Equinox Gathering...
(photos by Vicki Rausch)
