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"Our soul, our true self, is the most mysterious, essential, and magical dimension of our being. In fact, it is not a separate reality, as traditional Western thought views it, but the cohesive force that unites our body, heart, and mind. It is not a ghost trapped somehow in the physical machinery of our body but the very essence of our being."
"The dance is not where we lose ourselves. But where we find ourselves."
"There is no true joy and compassion except through the difficult emotions - all we get without the experience of fear, anger, and sadness are cheap imitations of joy and compassion - pleasantness and sentimentality."
"If you don't do your dance, who will?"
"Movement is my medicine, my meditation, my metaphor and my method, a living language we can rely upon to tell us the truth about who we are, who we are with, and where we are going. There is no dogma in the dance."
"Sweat your prayers, dance your pain, and move on."
"Healing is movement. Disease is inertia. If you put the body in motion, you will change."
"Rhythm is our universal mother tongue. It's the language of the soul."
"Your body is the ground metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopaedia, your life story."
"It's beautiful to dance alone, beautiful to dance with your children, beautiful to dance with your friends, beautiful to dance with your lover, or even collectively. But the ultimate dance is the one we do by ourselves, when we make ourselves known to God."
"Imagination is powerful. Imagination is healing. All you need is the courage to visualize what should be, and then give yourself to its creation. The result may not be what you expected, but it will be right."
"There is a dance that only you know how to do"
"Mine is the art of inspiring people to turn themselves inside out, transform their suffering into art, their art into awareness and their awareness into action"
"As Einstein queried, 'Why is it that I get my best ideas in the morning while I'm shaving?' Shaving is like meditation with a sharp object. When the mind is empty and receptive, big ideas flow through every cell of our body. When we're thinking too hard, we tense up and nothing can flow through us; our energy gets stuck in our heads. Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith and trust that if you turn off your head, your feet will take you where you need to go."
"The spirit in motion heals, expands, circles in and out of the body, moving through the layers of consciousness from inertia to ecstasy. Open to the spirit, and you will be transformed."
"Each of us is a moving center, a space of divine mystery"
"To shed the past, forget the future and fall into the moment feet first."
"If you have a body you are a dancer"
"It takes discipline to be a free spirit."
"Each of us has the power and responsibility to heal ourselves, to be our own medicine man or woman. Awakening our innate powers of being, loving, knowing, seeing, and healing involves ongoing work at all levels and in all dimensions of our self. Exploring the range of rhythms and emotions, achieving insights into our conditioning and ego, moving through the energy levels of spirit – these are all activities to be integrated into our daily lives."