I have always loved to dance and I love this practice... Through the 90's I began to form a deeper relationship with my body through body work. During this time I started to meditate and joined a Buddhist Movement with the desire to be ordained. That is where my Buddhist name comes in, which I took in India at Poona (2001). However after a few years I found the DANCE! The Five Rhythms and my world changed. When I dance I touch the essence of who I am and experience the unity between spirit and matter - so much more so than with just meditating alone. I think dancing is in my bones. I loved to dance as a child - it was my secret garden that I could escape to away from the troubled world. Home from school, on with a record, close the bedroom door and I entered another time, place and mystery. I can now see I was touching my soul - it was my sacred space.