TRANCE DANCE INTO IT

Trance Dancing is an ancient spiritual ritual which invites Holy Spirit to embody the participants and to give the visions or to heal them through spiritual ecstasy.

For over 40,000 years indigenous people worldwide (and now unconsciously, contemporary rave parties) use this practices to return home lost "soul parts", bring about the ecstasy of spiritual wholeness. Anyone can trance dance because there are no steps, no external expectations. Holy Spirit knows the steps and once awakened, Spirit takes over.

It is a journey out of your head and into your hart and body. Something that we modern humans seem need so much.

Spiritual dancing is a cross cultural phenomenon, a testament to its power and authenticity. Cultures from every continent on this planet simultaneously embraced unique dance forms. Purpose in dancing is to `enter the consciousness' or `become the spirit' of the God, Goddess, and various animal and plant life. Through these dance rituals they believed that the Spirits could empower them with abilities such as courage and compassion, as well as reveal insights into the future.

Trance dance, an ancient shamanic practice, is a healing vehicle through which people can commune with their Spirit.

Dance is synonymous with the prayer, a demonstration of reverence. Dance is a doorway to the soul or `spirit within' and if you dance into the state of ecstatic trance you will connect completely to the healing powers of Holy Spirit. Trance dance is pure ecstatic energy. Trance dance is the vehicle by which you become that energy and that's what makes it remarkable. At the level of Spirit, anything is possible.

For some people, the word 'trance' is frightening. But trance is really nothing more than another word for meditation. Trance and meditation are vehicles to move you from the state of internal dialogue, thinking, dreaming, anxiety to the state of you are awareness of who you are! The question is, how do you get to that state? When you meditate, you sit in silence for extended periods of time until the mind empties out and you become an empty vessel.

Everything stops. New awareness is here and your Holy Spirit can surface. With trance dance your enter the same state, except the doorway is different. It's done through rhythm, sound and movement of the body. Through the catharsis during the dance your body, mind and karma is cleared and new kind of awareness is here. Surrendered to the rhythm and sound you are taken by Holy Spirit and reunited with our Divine Source in one very deep meditative and ecstatic bliss.

I was introduced to spiritual dance by Baghwan Rajnesh. His series of active meditations (Kundalini, Dynamic, Nataraj etc.) are magnificent work. Since then I have been dancing and breathing for many years. He has developed this dance meditations for inbalanced lifestyle which is leading to separation between our Spirit and Body. Many of us are never in balance, always extreme in their materialism or spiritualism. Truth is that real awakening is return of Holy Spirit into our Body and everyday life. While your body dances, your soul travels and remembers, free of the limits of this life, free of the limitations of time and space. Spirit returns home and is embodied within you, the Trance Dancer. Tremendous energy is awakened, spontaneous healing occurs and you are filled with visions of Spirit guides and nature.

Traditionally, trance dance has always been group work made around the fire and during the night. Naturaly you can make it any time and anywere. It is important to have your eyes closed and some pepole like to usa blindfold for this puppose. Before you start your dance build a trust with members of group and place where you dance. I have been dancing at many different places and groups. Interesting phenomenon is that I never sow somebody hurt during the dance. Some dancers become quite wild during the dance but they have never made any damage to either themselves or others. After some practice in Trance dancing this will become understandable to you. When you surrender your body to Holy Spirit during the dance he will take care about safety and direct you much, much better than your mind. If you are dancing around the fire then you have the excellent opportunity to show the power of you Spirits by ending the dance with the Firewalking.

Drumming, rhythm, sound, movements and breathing are the main elements for focusing our attention. Why? We know that sound for very long. long time. It is the beating of our heart. That constant beating sound is a meditative and relaxing sound. Put your head on the breast of your beloved one and you will fill the peace, love and safety. What you will do with the crying baby? You will take it into your arms and hold it near your hart. The beat moves us into a trance state when the rhythm is unbroken, and constant. At some point your ego will decide it is safe sufficient to release all controls ad surrender you to the Higher Self. If you listen to the rhythm - eyes close or shielded by a blindfold, breath flowing in patterns - and move, a gradual release of your ego will take place. It is not permanent. It's a temporary place that you go, but it does have lasting effect. When you come back out of trance, less of your ego is there and more of your higher self is present - more of your intelligent self, your wisdom. People who dance over extended periods of time notice a marked increase in frequency of insight and revelation. The dancer often comes to 'points of resistance' when they loose their balance or energy. At this points you just need to keep dancing holding your attention on your breath and sound. We are loosing the energy because do not allow ourselves to breathe fully. I would like to give here one opinion of Gabrielle Roth abut connection of breathing and dancing. Gabrielle Roth has devoted her life to exploring and communicating the language of primal movement and experimental theatre. Gabrielle Roth, the artist and trance dancer has become the high priestess of 'Trance Dance'. Over the past 35 years, Gabrielle has taken thousands of people on a journey from physical and emotional inertia to the freedom of ecstasy, from the tyranny of the chattering ego-mind to the blessed emptiness of stillness. Gabrielle said:” Any spiritual work is about bringing forces, fields of energy-the physical field, the emotional field, and the mental field-into unity, into oneness. How does that happen? It happens through the breath. The breath is the spirit, the Holy Spirit. The breath is the catalyst. The breath shakes things up and moves things. It keeps things moving. The difference between life and death is breath. A dead body doesn't move; that's it. Conversely, then, a live body, a living body, would move fully. Every little cell would be alive and vibrating. I consider that we're a series of vibrations; we're pure energy. When we're plugged into the master current, to the big current, to the master vibe, it's held together by an invisible force called breath. So we want to make more and more space for our breath. The deeper you breathe, the more fully you're alive. Looking at how the body works, as we breathe we take in oxygen, and that oxygen filters through the entire body, through every little cell. If it doesn't get to those cells, that part of the body will have problems. I have spent the last forty years on a variety of dance floors all over the world, and I hear the same mantra coming from me, which is "Breathe, breathe." When I look around, I see people holding their breath. We breathe on a very shallow level. Why is that? Because we're afraid; because if we were to let the breath go all the way down to the toes, on the way down it would get into the hips, and then we would be forced to really feel our sensuality and our sexuality, and it would ignite these forces, and we would have to be responsible for them, channeling them, and dealing with them.

On the way down it would also pass through the whole emotional place, and we would really feel. Our feelings would start to move. I've seen it again and again in the dance-- more you dance, the more deeply you start to feel. And the more deeply you feel, the more aware you become of why you're feeling, and what those feelings are connected to. And they're always connected to relationship-relationship to the self, to each other or to the world. To breathe fully is to be alive and awake. I think that we have some unspoken contract that we're just going to go through the motions in some kind of numb zone-like nice, normal, neutral neurotics-and just get our five gold stars at the end. We hope the Dalai Lama's right-we hope we get to come back again, and maybe next time we'll breathe, and maybe next time we'll dance, and maybe next time we will really feel the full force of the Holy Spirit. I say hey, let's go now! It's never too late.” The dance ends when the dancer has gone as far as they are able and at that point they will sit down and obverse energy, love and peace crated inside of them. Many people have moved energy that has been stagnant for a long time; this culture doesn't make many safe spaces for strong passion - whatever kind of emotion it contains. After the emotional cleansing during the dance this still part of the dance is always deep meditave experience. Through ancient breath patterns, movement and rhythms which impact the body and mind , the Trance Dancer begins to see with their senses rather than their eyes. Other times and other forms reveal themselves, and the Trance Dancer's consciousness is filled with the magical world of Spirit. With time and experience, Trance Dancing causes you to think with your heart not with your brain. When Spirit enters us we shamelessly move our bodies with orgasmic passion, because this is our true nature. We then begin to experience ecstatic healing, as we consciously breathe and move from inside our hearts. The desperate quest for enlightenment, bliss and out-of-body experiences dies and instead your body is filled with your total existence. You are fully present, you are at last content, no longer needing to escape the reality you have agreed to. You are finally filled with love, energy, respect and passion for being alive. You are finally satisfied being a human being.

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