Mirror Visions

• Wilma Carpenter

  Jan 22, 2002

  Hello,

  My name is Wilma Carpenter. I am a spiritual filmmakers and I made

  a Doc/Drama about the Spiritual Fire "THE VIOLET FLAME" 

   www.thevioletflame.net  that transmute karma and in the film I put  a

  segment about the movement of energy (a goddess dance), because

  Dancing is praying that heals the earth. 

  Let our dance, songs and rhythms be our

  prayer that gives life

Chantal Lemire-Carrillo MA
ANTHROPOLOGIST
Specialized in Healing and Human Potential
Tipi.Byregion.net

Please check this out.  It is a wonderful ritual performance piece.

http://www.thegreatstory.org/tobiasscript.pdf

Ritual can be healing, and creative expression is our healing grace.

Here is what I got together to send to ThinkHolistic -- and comments,
corrections, controversies?

Healing through Dance
Laurie Corzett (libramoon42@mindspring.com)

La danse, c'est le mouvement, et le mouvement, c'est la vie.
("Dance is movement, and movement is life.")
--Ludmilla Chiriaeff (Founder, Les Grands Ballets
Canadiens)

What is is about dancing, in a group, with an intimate other, or
alone, that can give us that mystical rush and promote wellness on so
many levels? Is it the pre-cognitive memory of the rhythm of the
heartbeat keeping us safe? Is it the emotional-spiritual connection
to the natural world we feel when moving pleasurably in our animal
body? Is it some atavistic source of healing from our primal days?
This is my quest -- to discover the healing properties of dance and
how to best use and promote this simplest and most profound gift of
our physical being.

Throughout our history, dancing has funtioned as a healing and
balancing component, a form of social communication and transcendent
spiritual ritual. Though patterns and forms vary, expressive
rhythmic movement is a very basic means of relieving emotional
tension and has from the beginning been associated with religious
ritual and healing. We celebrate by dancing at weddings and
festivals, and join others in dance as the quintessential romantic
experience. Dancing alone, feeling the rhythmic sway and getting in
touch with the extension and contraction of muscles in a pleasurable
context, is uplifting, healing. Dancing definitely helps to bring up
my mood and promote more sane reflection. When I can get so caught up
in the dance that I no longer feel separate from the music and can
move within it, it seems to free something very profound within me.

In my search I am finding a wide variety of healing modalities,
spiritual activities and holistic therapies based on our natural
expression of energies through dance, as well as community and
individual art projects promoting creativity and wholeness.

Most recently I am pursuing my passion through a new Yahoo group and
project: the Healing Dance Network. I envision a web between the
various healing dance studies, theories, practitioners and proponents
through which to find, share and expand on my own studies. I am in
the beginning of a process to create a Healing Dance Network webzine
through which to share and get out the word on healing through dance.
Any help or advice would be much appreciated.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/healingdance

Hello all.
Thank you, Laurie, for putting together this group so that we can all learn
about one another.
My name is Jamie McHugh, and I live in San Francisco. I have been working
in the field of dance as a healing art for the past 17 years, when I came to CA
to apprentice with Anna Halprin at Tamalpa Institute. I staye4d on at the
Institute for many years as core faculty, and then began to grow my own
approach to somatics, performance and ceremony. I still have a very close
connection to Anna all these many years later, and she still inspires me.
My website is www.somaticxpress.com
I am currently finishing up my first book: "Restoring Original Grace: Movement
as Medicine".
I look forward to being in the loop of this community.
Warmly,
Jamie

La danse, c'est le mouvement, et le mouvement, c'est la vie.
("Dance is movement, and movement is life.")
             --Ludmilla Chiriaeff (Founder, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens) 

http://www.annaswebart.com/culture/dancehistory/history/

http://monsite.wanadoo.fr/Artychaud/page6.html

http://www.synergydance.com/staff.shtml

http://www.movingjournal.org/

http://art-therapy.concordia.ca/co_modalitydance.htm

http://www.erowid.org/spirit/dancing/dancing.shtml

http://www.portfolio.mvm.ed.ac.uk/studentwebs/session4/39/psycho.htm

http://www.jsmusic.org.uk/links.html

http://theparty.netraver.org.za/Dance.html

http://www.erowid.org/spirit/dancing/dancing.shtml

http://www.thinkholistic.com/comdir/cditem.cfm?NID=214

http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/complementary/therapies_energetic.shtml

http://www.meaningoflife.i12.com/index.htm

http://www.somaticxpress.com/

http://www.goagil.com/thesis.html

http://www.oasis-dancezone.com/dances.html

http://www.lifeqwest.com/planetary.html

http://www.bodywisdom.org/

http://www.rosicrucian.com/sia/siaeng59.htm

http://www.tanztherapie.com/us_dancetherapy.htm

http://nurturedance.org/nurturedance.htm

http://www.freewebs.com/earthlight/theearthlightproject.htm

http://www.arielagroup.com/pages/resources/articles/dancesurveyarticle.html

http://www.oraculartree.com/dance.html

http://www.dne.org/dancedirectory/

It's all rhythm, cycles of energy -- dance to the rhythm of your life.

http://pages.prodigy.net/stevenmalkus1/currentevents.htm

http://www.fusionanomaly.net/dance.html

http://www.naropa.edu/somatic/christinearticle1.html

http://www.hopedance.org/archive/40/articles/40.html

http://www.gse.harvard.edu/~t656_web/Spring_2002_students/sparkman_pamela_dance_movement_therapy.htm

http://www.medicomm.net/Consumer%20Site/am/dance.htm

http://www.sciencedaily.com/encyclopedia/Dance

http://www.streetswing.com/

http://www.ccdr.org/ccdr.html

http://www.lmu.ac.uk/ces/lss/DAZL/

http://www.lifepositive.com/Mind/arts/performing-arts/performing-arts.html

http://www.cbcn.ca/english/news.php?show&523

http://www.danceonline.com/news/arts=health.html

http://www.wholistichealingresearch.com/Articles/EnergyMed4Internist.htm

http://www.transitiontoparenthood.com/janelle/energy/juhoansi.htm

https://millrace.uoregon.edu/kinpubs/search_collection.cfm?CFID=90819&CFTOKEN=60996929

http://showcase.netins.net/web/ankh/music.html

http://www.shira.net/heal-phys1.htm

http://www.danceforchildren.com/moving.html

http://www.incywincy.com/default?p=7386

http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Strasse/3622/mer.html

http://hometown.aol.com/lotusdancers/bellydancesacred3.html

http://www.somaticxpress.com/

http://www.admt.org.uk/assets/emotion/e-motion_spring2003.pdf

http://dir.jayde.com/24196.html

http://www.crystalinks.com/dance.html

http://awakenone.freeservers.com/dance.htm

http://www.portfolio.mvm.ed.ac.uk/studentwebs/session4/39/

http://www.ecstaticspirit.com/Bistro/proprietor.html

http://www.mythinglinks.org/ct~natya.html

http://www.healthandhealingny.org/complement/dance_history.html

http://www.ecopsychology.org/gatherings6/html/Movement/movement_dance.html

http://apdept.antiochne.edu/APDegrees/danceintensive

http://homepage.tinet.ie/~bomi/books/dance_therapy.htm

http://www.artsedge.kennedy-center.org/professional_resources/overviews/detail.cfm?pub_id=57

http://www.cancer.org/docroot/ETO/content/ETO_5_3X_Dance_Therapy.asp?sitearea=ETO

http://www.adta.org/research.html

http://www.adta.org/chace.html

http://www.kinections.com/

http://www.healers-network.com/Articles/mesmera.html

http://www.shakticenter.com/spirit_dancing.html

http://members.aol.com/doder1/dance1.htm

http://www.bethdance.com/dancearticle.html

http://www.danceweaver.com/

http://www.artashealing.org/ahfw9.htm

http://www.sacreddancer.com/links.htm

http://www.sacredcircles.com/THEDANCE/HTML/LISTENTC.HTM

http://www.sacreddanceguild.org/resource/WebSite.cfm?websiteid=6&websitewebmenuitemid=34&wt=HoRe

http://www.dance.demon.co.uk/AGC/Articles/LivingRitualDance.html

http://www.issseem.org/

http://www.spiritdancing.org

http://www.magicalmotion.com

listen to the music.  Let it take you where you want to go.

Dance can be a gift that you give to yourself (or that your self gives to you).

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/p/phil-ochs/108193.html

Promotes balance

dancing definitely helps to bring up my mood and promote
more sane reflection. When I can get so caught up in the dance that
I no longer feel separate from the music and can move within it, it
seems to free something very profound within me.

• heinemanskylark

  Jul 15, 2004

  Hello All, I am brand new to this group and will, by August 1st, be
  relocated to a retreat in Cherokee Park Colorado. It will take me a
  little while to get electricty, internet etc, but I will be back up
  and running with a healing dance retreat soon. My life's work has
  been in healing, aura reading, movement and sound meditation. My
  forte has been as a visual artist of the metaphysical light body and
  I've made my living doing sessions with people coombining an aura
  portrait with energy work and reading. www.skylarkproductions.com
  shows it all.
  
  My passion is in healing dance which is why I'm taking time out from
  the move from suburbia to the wilderness to join you all. I combine
  solo, couple and group movement meditations, with the Arika Mentation
  system. The body is seen as 12 parts, hand and feet together are the
  first part. (The other 11 aspects complete the bodymind unity.)By
  bonding in mind into body, the hands and feet 'turn to light'.
  Movement is effortless. When done with 2 people, dance is via the
  wind or essence, not one person leading and one following. I call
  the workshop, "Dance like the Wind". I just made an audio cd one can
  listen to and be guided by. Its $15.00 and a good start. Also if
  anyone wants it, they are automastically signed up to get the next
  upgdrade free. If anyone wants a copy, my address for the next two
  weeks is 2967 Adobe Drive. Fort Collins, CO 80525. phone is 970 225-
  6981. And I'm assuming I'll be getting your emails.
  Love to get to know you all. Carol Skylark