Somatic Ecstatic Dance

Somatic aesthetic dance is a practice that saved my life. I feel it has truly freed me — from myself, from my doubts, and from my fears.For many years, up until turning 30, I didn’t really enjoy dance. Or maybe I did… but I could count those moments on one hand.

Most of the time, I felt like I wasn’t good enough. Like I didn’t belong on the dance floor.

Like I didn’t move as beautifully as others — and definitely not as freely as some women.

And over time, this became a core belief about the way I move, the way I dance. 

Until I came across somatic ecstatic dance, and it was the opposite of everything I had created about dance in my mind.

For the first time, I could meet dance as a living experience — not as something that needs to look a certain way, not as something I have to perform or get right. So I have danced from pre-vertebral pulsation patterns, as a cell, as lymph, as bones. I have danced with my heart as the guide, with my lungs leading the movement. And it has been a beautiful exploration of how movement changes depending on where it arises from — the sensation, the body, the music.

And over time, I feel I have danced enough, long enough, to begin letting go of effort,

and allowing spontaneous movement to emerge. And this is where something shifted.

I no longer felt like I am dancing —

I feel like I am being danced.

Being moved.

The dance is dancing me.

Of course, this is a process too –you are in it, and then you are out of it.

Because there is no dance without the dancer —and the dancer is human, with a mind, a heart, emotions, and patterns.

And yet, this practice has brought me into a place of freedom. Of expression.

A space where I can make silly faces, let my face dance, let my muscles express what they need to express. A space where I can make all the craziest sounds, where I can scream, or become a tiger, a jungle, the sea.

Or to not move at all —when it feels like my inner world is dancing more than my outer body.

Through this practice, I have come into a deep connection with who I truly am —with my essence. This is why it has become one of my favorite practices.

And I feel truly grateful to share it with you.

If you feel the curiosity to explore movement beyond performance —

to move from sensation, from truth, from within —

I invite you into this practice. ♡

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