With the full moon in Aries we can feel the firey energies rising within; that deep yearning to connect with the ebb and flow of our creative tides.
I would like to share something from Gabriella Roth's book, Maps to Ecstasy with you in the hope that it will inspire you to dance with the light of the moon:
"Ecstasy is an egoless, timeless state of being. It's a state of total alignment and unity. Unity of body, heart, mind, soul and spirit. It is what we need to heal our psychic dismemberment. We can't access it if we are divided, body against mind, mind against heart, or any other way. We can only reach ecstasy through wholeness. One way to experience being whole is through meditation. The purpose of meditation is to still the mind and surrender to the moment. The fastest way I've found to still the mind and be aware of the moment is to move the body.
Movement isn't only meditation; it's also the medicine that heals the split between our minds and hearts, bodies and soul. Movement as meditation makes us aware that there's a lot of stuff between us and the ecstatic experience. By stuff, I mean all forms of inertia - physical, emotional, mental. Each of us must carve a path through our own inner wilderness. Movement as medicine gives us a way to dynamically transform all that inertia into energy and, ultimately, ecstasy."
She goes further on to say:
"Healing is a journey. It involves stepping out of our habitual roles, our conventional scripts, and improvising a dancing path. The dancing path leads us from the inertia of sleepwalking to the ecstasy of living the spirit of the movement. ... To do this, we have to live on the edge, between the lines, somewhere between matter and spirit, masculine and feminine, darkness and light, leader and follower, stillness and motion. We venture like tightrope walkers over the abyss of the unknown."
May we all find the rhythm within that resonates with the universe; may we dance through life like the fearless light beings we are.
In Lak'ech
Blessings,
Raven
I would like to share something from Gabriella Roth's book, Maps to Ecstasy with you in the hope that it will inspire you to dance with the light of the moon:
"Ecstasy is an egoless, timeless state of being. It's a state of total alignment and unity. Unity of body, heart, mind, soul and spirit. It is what we need to heal our psychic dismemberment. We can't access it if we are divided, body against mind, mind against heart, or any other way. We can only reach ecstasy through wholeness. One way to experience being whole is through meditation. The purpose of meditation is to still the mind and surrender to the moment. The fastest way I've found to still the mind and be aware of the moment is to move the body.
Movement isn't only meditation; it's also the medicine that heals the split between our minds and hearts, bodies and soul. Movement as meditation makes us aware that there's a lot of stuff between us and the ecstatic experience. By stuff, I mean all forms of inertia - physical, emotional, mental. Each of us must carve a path through our own inner wilderness. Movement as medicine gives us a way to dynamically transform all that inertia into energy and, ultimately, ecstasy."
She goes further on to say:
"Healing is a journey. It involves stepping out of our habitual roles, our conventional scripts, and improvising a dancing path. The dancing path leads us from the inertia of sleepwalking to the ecstasy of living the spirit of the movement. ... To do this, we have to live on the edge, between the lines, somewhere between matter and spirit, masculine and feminine, darkness and light, leader and follower, stillness and motion. We venture like tightrope walkers over the abyss of the unknown."
May we all find the rhythm within that resonates with the universe; may we dance through life like the fearless light beings we are.
In Lak'ech
Blessings,
Raven
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