Dance and remember…
the universe does not respond to what you want,
it responds to what you are.
Do not leak your energy…vampires are real.
Nail the coffin shut so you can rise.
Words are spells. Be careful what gets cast over your life.
Love is eternal.
Everything else in this world is temporary.
This is why unconditional love of Self is so foundational.
When you truly love the Self,
all the magic of this life can be yours because you no longer chase, long or need.
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Beauty in the Qi
Like the ballet, this evening-length solo does not contain the spoken word. The story unfolds through a musical score spanning 400 years with sound design by my dear friend composer Quentin Chiappetta. His studio is MediaNoise. Check him out. https://www.medianoise.com/
This dance project is an opportunity to share my path from intellect to wisdom. The ego mind to the heart.
When we are younger we are rewarded for acquiring skills and knowledge, cataloging it, bragging about it, exploiting it. If we are not careful, this path can lead to vanity, carelessness, delusions, poor choices and suffering – even if you are loving and kind. Only later did this dancer realize that awakening from that deep slumber was meant to be my path. The opportunity to face the shadow side, delusion – maya is a gift. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom requires a lot of truth telling but than letting go. Learning to provide compassion, fortitude and unconditional love...to yourself. Gratitude. Lifetime after lifetime. I am persistent and stubborn. Walking with grace with a nail in your foot. I have not given up on the dream that in one of these births I will finally escape samsara – the wheel of birth and death and birth and death. The karma of past lives and current lessons with be transmuted into liberation and true freedom. Left to burn in the flames, like a fire Homa. So for the brief moments we are together, I do not want to just entertain an audience, I want to inspire you to reconnect to Self, your true nature, innate happiness and real power. Through the ancient gateways of dance, qigong and wushu I believe and practice Movement as Medicine. Thank you Grandmaster Chen for all of your patience and guidance with this dancer, Amma for always holding my feet to the fire and my ballet teachers for the patience it takes to teach, share and technically guide that form. There is such a profound joy when you get even the smallest combination correct!
"The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star
but to go one's way in life and working unerringly,
neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause."
- Gustav Mahler
