How dance connects you in your life force?
There is the earth, the sky, my body and music. Music makes me that I want to move ö like an invitation for dancing. Out of this dance ö I allow myself to move. In this moment it happens that I get in contact with myself. I start to feel myself from head to feet, from my skin to the bones.
So it happens that something from the outside becomes something internal and
something from the inside becomes something external.
Now life force itself invites me to dance.
When I dance I get in contact with life force itself by allowing myself to move in what ever way I want ö It wants me ö to.
Mallika
4. What does the work with Navanita mean for you?
Navanita creates a great space of trust and always follows the invitation of the moment, which supports me to find my own rhythmus. I`am always impressed how the existence is dance through her and how she accepts what the moment is offering. I`am also impressed by the awakeness she has and the nearness she allows. It`s special that she guide us and is part of the group as well. I have the feeling, she listens with her whole body and she helps me to discover things, which whisper inside me very silently. I feel her big love and care. Usually I`am used to give away responsibility; she supports in a playful kind, to realize it and so that I take the responsibility for me back. To practise this, I need the support of the tribe, which we create together. The tribe is an important source.
And so we are ã the Bauls ã, who dance with the wind from one place to another and get deeper and deeper to the connection with ourselfes as we are ( ã who I`amä ).
Irene, Elke, Andrea, Mallika
october 2004 in greece
2. How does your body respond?
At the moment my body responds to me with pictures and colours. For example my pelvis. Usually I felt my to pelvis to be very cold, dark, tight and always a sort of ã stressed ã.
With breathing, movement, fun and support I just had a look what was there. For the first time I felt the shape of my hip bone which got a dark brown colour in this very moment. After being in silence with the image for a while I saw some green tendrils growing around the hip bones and I senses how much space there actually is.
I sense a growing feeling of nourishment and strength. Then I heard a tiny voice saying: ã Now all I need is warmth ã. Immediately a warm yellow colour floated into the image. Like a light, like a hug which gave me safeness, security, comfort and warms. I cried. Now it felt complete: there was space, warmth, light and ... calmness.
3. Does this image work like an anchor for you?
Yes, sure. And if I can`t get directly into contact, I use some ã tools ã, for example I breath, or I hug myself, close my eyes and asked for the inner picture. Or I dance, or I use my body as a drum. It`s always different. So when I`m in contact with the picture again i feel an unbelievable acceptance, love, calmness and strength in my daily life.
This picture is still very new. I am sure it will become a very important anchor for feeling myself at home within myself.
september and october 2004: A experience in a space with Navanita; in events, in classes, in groups or just she is arround supports me and it can easer happen.
Thank you and all my love
from Mallika
Hallo NAVANITA,
I want you to send some words. I hope it is not to late and you can use it. Enjoy my weirdly English translationÉ. ;)
What chance after Greece? How I practice to be in my body and hear her voice?
I am more in my body. I feel my bones and joints and my muscles. I hear the signals of my body, I know when I am thirsty or tired. My pelves are round and big and often I walk and wiggle to be aware of. And I find that I am very aware of my pelves when I ride by bicycle without my hand. Than I must be in my middle to hold the balance, because when I ride with my head I will fall over.
Than I touch very often myself, more than after the weekend groups. I practice to massage my feeds in the evening and thank them and massage my hands and say that I have veneration for them. Than I begin to touch my belly and practice to see and feel the beauty of this part of my body.
Every evening I say good night and thank my body for her work. And in the Morning I say hello and hear music and sometimes I dance a little bit before I go to work. I have the idea that I dance into the day. It makes the day easier for me. In snatches I sing silently on my bicycle at the way to work.
Sometimes when I lock into a mirror I notice that my body is beautifulÉ. I practice to find it.
I notice the wonder of my body again and again. Today I drive thru a dark park to work and I was so grateful that my eyes can see with only little bit of light. And often I love and my legs love to ride my bike. It is fun to feel the muscles and the bones.
Last weekend I gave my desk to my sister, now I have so much space to dance in my room. I love to hear music and often I dance. Sometimes when I feel alone and my mindfuck start I dance or I lay down on my wooden floor. Than I feel the connection and sometimes it comes water out my eyes and wash my heart. Than it opened. And I am very touched of me.
Some more to come back in here and now: Breathing. Short deep breathing in and longer breathing out.. I feel my chest and than I be back.
When I massage someone my fingers are very curious I can feel the bones and muscles and it is joy to me. When I touch somebody I can imagine that my body is also a wonder. Than I care that I also become a massage. I practice to ask for being touched.
The wonder is when I be grateful, things happened and I be more grateful. Lots of little things, for example I go with a friend to the cinema and I not know the film and suddenly it is the film you speak about. (rhythm is it) Or my mother invited my to go to a concert from an African women (Angelique Kidjo) I never hear from. And the concert was so nourishing. She say a lot of things I hear from youÉ. Life is for live and not for hanging in the shit, dance the life and celebrate it.
Very nourishing to hear and see things I learn again and again to rememberÉ.. always
I am very grateful to learn from you. To be in your nearless and see what you live.
Thanks for all and see you in december....
In lot of love SARAH
(my heart is at least so big as I)
When I dance, I feel different parts of my body. This connects me more with my body, because I see and sense these parts. And I feel then more at home in my body. This "feeling the body" brings me out of my head and I feel even more. It is a state of being at home and not being in the mind. When I feel my feet, I feel grounded and supported. I am not alone. This gives me a strength and I can relax and go more inside and watch.
What I learnt in your groups is: to stay relaxed and watch what is happening. To be present in the body - not going into mindtrips, what to da, how to react and so on. And also to play with this: it has not to be a perfect Presence. I can forget this and it is also o.K.. This is a even bigger relaxation. Playing with this is a very important thing that I learnt, because with seriousness there is also tension, with playing there is relaxation and fun. It is also accepting myself as I am. And: Allowing my body to move how it wants.
Love Utsav.
And here the last message for today - the poem I wrote for you:
Beloved essence
Sweet time, enjoyed with you;
innocent, full of trust and truth.
Recognizing your simple love
in my own heart.
Wild time, danced with you;
joyful, playful
mirroring my own strength and aliveness.
Nourishing time, listening to your Being,
understanding the helplessness of each of us
reflecting the deep longing to be at home.
Feeding the source
while receiving you
and being received by you.
Beloved Navanita,
You are asking for my experiences with „Love is the Dance of Life“ and I can tell you only good things about it. For me the weekends with you always were a very special and touching group-experience, on my way searching for sense and truth in my life.
The beautiful and rythm-strong music and your intuitive, sensitive guidance create a joyful, playful and powerful atmosphere after a short time in your groups. This atmosphere, during all the weekends I participated, made it possible to let my body dance out of my very soul and to give myself totally to here and now as the only important event. In movement and in silence, in dance and in meditation, in touching and in being touched, I always found possibilities to let go and to trust, that what is, and what is happening in the moment, belongs to my existence and to the existence of the people, who are dancing with me. This wants to be lived and it`s allowed to be lived.
In the dance of my ecstatic body, but also in the silence of ist grounded movementlessness, I found the eccess to an energy inside of me, that let me feel strong, connected, and makes my life always again a happening of joy and dance.
By touching and being touched during a partnergame it could also happen- what is hardly not explainable- but people can feel together, when letting-go, trust and respect for each other is there: the „dance of life“ than became a dance of love! In these moments for me a wide inner space is opening and I get a feeling of borderlessness.
In experiencing how time and space are disappearing, I feel the truth of the eternal being and the deeper sense of my life very near. A nice feeling of love, peace and joy then stays back. But, and this also belongs to my experiences,some sadness always was there, when it was to say good-bye to people, whose love for moments really had touched me deep during the weekend.
„Love is the Dance of Life“ as a personal and a group-experience, stays as a special diamond in the treasury of my experiences of life and being.
It helped me to become strong connected with my body, with more power,
with wholeness and with love.
For this I thank you from my whole heart.
Love
(from a beautiful and loving doctor. A seeker for Healing – Mind, Body
and Soul)
A dance group with you is all in one for me: Bodywork, playing, moving, connecting, feeling, and experimenting.
In the beginning of your group, I am curious but also a bit shy because of all the unknown people. Usually I come directly of my daily life, where it mostly goes about having aims and functioning rationally.
And then it starts, this magical group. In such a short time, I come in contact with my being, my depth and space inside, my playfulness and wildness. And I get in contact with the others. It goes so smoothly, easily, as if it had been so for ever and it feels totally natural. The others are suddenly no strangers anymore but close and I feel connected.
I can enjoy it like a child, without intentions and full of life and trust, in the here and now. And the medium is the dancing, the playing with the movements of my body and with other Buddha-bodies. Without words. It brings me also in contact with my pain but on such a loving way, that I can take and accept it. Because there is love and the support of you and the others.
For me the most beautiful is that I come right into my heart. Into that space,
where everything is so easy and o.k. And to have the feeling, that there is
space for everything or everything is possible and that nothing has to happen.
This feeling becomes stronger each time and comes along with me into my daily
life.
I love the great “work” you do and I thank you from the bottom of
my heart!