A FEW BASIC MEDITATIONS
In Dancemeditation™, we use a wide variety of breathing and movement techniques to quiet an over-active, distracted mind and to invite intuitive, inspired embodiment. The Dancemeditations encourage us to more closely feel our body while uncoupling the impulse to fix or alter it. What is Unseen can emerge. There are many possibilities, all such beautiful ways to move into our essence. Here are a just a few examples to give you an idea of what we might explore.
Breath Dance Meditation
In this Movement Mantra we bring awareness to the continuous base note of breathing inside our moving bodies and experiment with different relationships to that pulse. Breath Dances are variable speeds, as well as rhythmic & non-rhythmic.
Deep State Motion
Moving in full receptivity—the sense of being moved—can’t be predicted or forced but it can be gently, sincerely invited. Deep State Motion is this mystical communion. To be moved is to be in what the Sufis call tawhid, or Unity. Deep State practices are a direct handing of the energetic lineage of Sufism.
Hand Dances
Hand gestures’ semaphoric, symbolic language opens the realms outside ordinary perception and interfaces elegantly with the hypnotic study of ornament.
Rocking Meditation
Each part of our body has its own voice and we strive to let each part speak. This might mean, for example, unhooking the shoulder from the ribcage so each can articulate distinctly. Rocking gently shakes these often frozen body parts loose, freeing them. Rocking is emotionally comforting and stimulating for the nervous & circulatory systems.
Sand Tracing Meditation
Prone circular & spiral movements done with awareness of skin sensation and gravity, encourage relaxed flexibility, whole-body integration, and coordination.
Slow Fluid Stretching Meditation
Breathing supports oceanic repetitions of moving into and away from the endpoints our full Range of Motion. The oscillations lull the cognitive mind. Stretching, rather than holding, is continuous motion. This engages our body’s fascial network, relieving joint stress.
Gravity
On Earth, we have three moving relationships to gravity. Low Space is movement on the floor, Middle Space is any motion between standing and lying down, and High Space is movement standing up. Our explorations help us experience gravity—the weight, the lightness—and to let our bodies accommodate and savor the range of demand between weight and lightness.
Whirling
Whirling is a dynamic Sufi purification practice. Begun by the beloved mystic, Jallauldin Rumi, it has been handed directly down in an unbroken lineage from practitioner to practitioner for centuries. At the same time it is inherent in all humans; children naturally whirl.
To learn more about Dancemeditation & Dunya’s journey, explore her books.
Oh, keep squeezing drops of the sun from your prayers and work and music and from your companion’s beautiful laughter, and from the most insignificant movements of your own holy body.
— Hafiz, 14th century Persian poet
FURTHER READING
To learn more about Dancemeditation
& Dunya's journey, explore her books.
