We value the ascent, and so it is that with the seven chakras we are eager to rush from the Mooladhara towards the thousand petals of the topmost Sahasrara where we think enlightenment is situated. However, the descent is the movement of contemplation.
Read MorePurusha and Prakrithi are the two principle experiential domains of reality. Purusha is the movement out of form, out of time and space, and into the movement beyond all paradigms including those of beginnings and endings, and source and destination. Prakrithi is the movement into form which includes universes, the earth, the mind, senses, thoughts, languages and our body. It is desire or yearning that moves Purusha into form or manifestation and it is desire or yearning that moves Prakrithi towards dissolving of form.
Read MoreMaatangi literally means the mother of all elephants, connecting us immediately to the elephant symbol of earth (also present in the earth chakra or Mooladhaara). Maatangi is the domain of the weighted pull of the earth—deliberate, slow, ever gracious but magnificently powerful. The lumbering, gentleness belies the strength and power of the elephant space.
Read MoreThe first practice of non-duality is in the most intimate aspect of our self—our body. Ardhanaarishwara is the contemplative movement that offers our sacred attention to the realms of our own minds, bodies and feelings. This powerful and ritual dance held what only dance can hold—that which is not possible for language and thought. Through dance we feel the sacredness of freedom from separatedness and division. When this is revealed to us, we taste freedom that is unconditional.
Read MoreDeity is the heart of Rasa. It is Deity that holds the alchemy of the Rasa experience. Deity is not created or “acted” but is found when the self becomes one with the constellation of dance. Deity is movement, form, feeling and the state of being of the performer. Deity is not a story but a feeling that is held in movement.
Read MoreA Kavi is someone who has the power not just to experience the Divine (Atman or Brahman or Consciousness) which is beyond language and expression, but is gifted with the ability to reveal or signal this experience. She does this through aesthetic forms including mantra, ritual, poetry, dance, sculpture and visual arts.
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