OPIS

This practice works on many levels.
It brings aliveness to our bodies, openness to our hearts, peace to our relationship with our minds..
It reminds us of the poetry of our own being, helps us connect more deeply with others, and so find community with our fellow dancers.
And in the end, beyond and beneath all these gifts, and at the heart of them all too, it’s a spiritual practice.

Each time we move, we align ourselves more nearly with the aliveness that animates all being.
In our attending to the present moment and following what’s ready to unfold, we connect more deeply to the fertile mystery that is the essence of all process.
And in the stillness at the core of our dance, we find a lasting taste of the fertile emptiness from which all things arise, and to which all things return.

There’s no dogma.
Just a direct personal experience of Spirit.
As our dance becomes prayer.

This Ongoing Group will meet six times over six weekends, beginning in November and ending in April 2025.

Each time we meet, we’ll dance the simplicity of the 5 Rhythms as a doorway to deepening our connection with Spirit. We’ll look within and beyond our own process to find the universal, the sacred and the sublime. We’ll explore the different ways in which we might enter this space together. And we’ll rest in the natural ordinariness of moving in conversation with something bigger than ourselves.

Dancing at a deep level through the year with the same group of companions is both powerful and healing. There is space for trust and friendship to grow, and challenge to be real and true. We will have time for words to share our process, for witnessing, and for individual support; and lots and lots of time to dance.

Between meetings there will be space to integrate and practice what we find, as we ground the experience we have back in our daily lives.

Six months of dance, inspiration, friendship, and support ~ a space to refresh our deepest selves, with kindness, discipline, and joy!