Finding God in Our Dance
By the Community of Dancing Mindfulness Facilitators

"In the subtle movements in the flow of dance, I meet the God of my understanding. With each organic movement, born of genuine response to music or silence, the spirit speaks through my body.

"God is with me when I am dancing – divine souls, lost in sweet music, which heals like golden honey when I am hungry.

"God is the Original Dance, the one already turning within me when I allow myself to yield to it and join in.

"Dance reveals in me an ecstatic and passionate connection to Spirit. It is the greatest love affair of my life. As I surrender to the dance of breath and movement, the whirling, twirling, collapsing, and reaching, this is the place where I meet the Divine. And ultimately myself. Coming to believe we are one and the same.

"Dance is my best Soul practice, where body, soul, God, and community meet and align.

"Dance releases me from the world and allows me to just be. God moves my spirit to laugh, cry, and let go of my fears.

"Dance circumvents the mind, allowing the spirit to commune as one with its creator. Dance is the reflection of that communion!

"Dance releases the glow of the spirit within my soul, body, and mind. It's not a reflection of what's within. It's being within myself and allowing the release of the divine touch of God, allowing my spirit to flow freely without judgment. Truly being in the moment of a free-floating spirit.

"Dance brings me back to my body, back to my heartbeat, my breath, back to communion with the eternal Now.

"There is a moment in the dance when troubles fade, when my mind is clear and I find my place. I spin to the center and I move inside, to where I find myself and I lose my pride. He meets me there and I see His face, He dances with me in that open space.

"Flowing totally with the essence that is sometimes visceral, sometimes unexpected. Where the rhythm of my soul meets and gives BIRTH to Oneness through Movement. Dance is born . . . and I express the Divine in me in Motion. And so it is.

"To find him is to feel engaged and to feel alive, to experience sorrow and tranquility, helpless with one step, and empowered with another, to twirl, to leap, no longer invisible. The greatest gift he bestowed on us was the ability to heal ourselves through the art of dance.

"God is everywhere, but he hangs out even closer to me when we dance."

Contributors: Jamie Marich, Mindi Berg Thompson, Christine Valters Paintner, Chris Campbell, Shelly Heilweil, Jane Peachey, Yemaja Jubilee, Kirsten Koenig, Vicki England Patton, Fonda Kingsley, Marta Mrotek, Sasha Webster

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