This post is a response to a listserve that I belong to in which the question was asked, does it work? Does putting our attention to our body, and our rhythm work?
It is the morning in Olympia Washington USA, where a little fewer than 200 of us are dancing with Gabrielle and Jonathan. Not far from our dance venue---ironically, a last minute change placed us at an armory---a protest is going on, protesting the arrival of military equipment through our little, tiny port.
That very protest, and every other relational, familial, community and societal protest starts in the protest I experience in my being. Protesting being alive, being vibrant, being with love, being my divine self. And why? I know through my many dances when I reconnect myself through my body being the anchor that I no longer protest. I am in love, I love, I am love. Each investigation, inquiry, moment of curiousity of what resides in my body always leads to truth, again, and again, and again, I am led to that which I refuse. The push and the pull become cousins of light.
The dance of finding my rhythm, coming to my home through going under, and stretching my roots deep and wide, while simultaneously being above, grounding to our great nurturing mother earth keeps me in my center. The center in which the true me is available to you and our fellow humanity to receive and be love. The protest has melted away so that I see our fullness, our deepness, our possibilities, the infinite.
And each time I come to the floor to practice this I strengthen my ability to stay center, come back to center quicker and quicker.
