BlissDance February 2010

For this month of February, there is BlissDance EVERY Wednesday night, yay! I am likely to be away 3 and 17 March, so enjoy the continuity this month, and come dance! Venue 12 Windsor Rd Kalk Bay, Time 7.15 - 9pm, Cost 80, book your dinner at Olympia if you want to join the group afterwards.

Much thanks
Shakti

WaterBliss
Thursday 8 October
7 - 8.30 pm

WaterBliss is Back!
Maximum 8 participants
Cost R120*
*small group and high overheads for me

WaterBliss is a more advanced form of Blissdance. Immersed in warm water, we get irresistibly tempted to let go, let our bodies flow, sink into the bliss of this moment, and feel ourselves on with all of existence. A strong element of WaterBliss is the feeling of being held in amniotic fluid, while caring partners float you in 30 degrees C water. close to their hearts. We play over each other's bodies like dolphins, and celebrate the joy of life.

Love

Shakti

Choosing to be chosen

Hello beloveds,

The winter nights are rich spaces to dance into. This Wednesday night 7.15 - 9pm 12 Windsor Rd Kalk Bay (cost R80) we dance through the places where we have become frozen - and into the fullness of choice. The poem to inspire our dance is by Lee Carol Pieper:

Many are chosen
But most are frozen
In corporate
Or collective cold,
these are the stalled
who choose not to be chosen
except to be bought and sold.

Love
Shakti

Blissdance in Loop Street alternative Saturdays

Dear Dancers,

I am delighted to let you know that I am starting a Saturday morning BlissDance class every second Saturday in town.

Starting: Saturday 27 June.
Time: 10 am - 12 noon.
Venue: 71 Loop Street 8th floor - a lovely open dance studio, that has been just waiting for us!
Cost: R80
All welcome. If you would like to check with me whether you are ready, you can call me on 0833010399
Wear comfortable clothes and bring a bottle of water, as dancing makes thirsty.

Love
Shakti

The challenge of BlissDance

BlissDance
is and expression of Tantra
the art of sacred sexuality
of consciousness in motion

Do you dare to live life
intimately
fully
beyond denial and illusion?

Then BlissDance is for you

What is Blissdance?

BLISSDANCE

You are invited to Blissdance most Wednesdays 7.15 - 9pm at the Forge, 12 Windsor Road Kalk Bay*.

Bliss
is the balance that happens
When we fully embrace
Both our shadow and our light
And come to rest
In love

Blissdance is an expression of Tantra, the art of integrating the sacred and sexual, and using this as a force for awakening. In a Blissdance session, you explore your inner and outer worlds through movement and stillness, music and silence. The dance is free and not stylized, though guided by me through the progression of a theme. I introduce the dance, show you how I interpret it, and then you find our own response.

Blissdance draws on the wisdom of Biodanza and various other dance,movement and meditation traditions.

One of the first principles of Tantra is presence – being present in the here and now, in your body, in your senses. Another is the connection between our passion, our sexuality and our hearts. Blissdance is a space where you can come rest into the simple beauty of moving in a body, with other bodies, in the dance of life.

Blissdance for radical freedom and creativity

Dear Blissdancers,

We are living in unprecedented times of change, when old world systems that no longer work are being fundamentally changed. Change begins in each of us, as we shake loose the ossified old patterns, beliefs and structures of our lives. I would that BlissDance be a space that recognizes and supports this longing in us, for authentic, free expression.

Dance, and especially collective dance, has long been a vehicle for the body and the being to break free into new territories, beyond the existing regime. Dancing in the Streets: A Collective History of Joy describes how collective dances have slowly, systematically been eroded from the lives of most westerners, mostly for political reasons. In the next four or so BlissDance evenings, I will be drawing on the dance and music of cultures that still have an alive, vibrant collective dance culture.

This week, tomorrow night, we will be dancing through the moods of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cultures. There is a boundless passion in these culture that reminds me of the words of Hakim Bey: "There is no becoming, no revolution, no struggle, no path; already you're the monarch of your own skin--your inviolable freedom waits to be completed only by the love of other monarchs: a politics of dream, urgent as the blueness of sky"

"The last possible deed is that which defines perception itself, an invisible golden cord that connects us: illegal dancing in the courthouse corridors. If I were to kiss you here they'd call it an act of terrorism--so let's take our pistols to bed & wake up the city at midnight like drunken bandits celebrating with a fusillade, the message of the taste of chaos."

So, beloveds, let's celebrate being the monarchs of our own skin tomorrow night; let's dance illegally in the courtyard corridors and kiss here, in this moment of the dance without boundaries.

Blissdance starts Wednesdays 7.15pm at The Forge. Book yourself a meal at Olympia Cafe if you want to join us for dinner afterwards!