The Heart, The Essence and The Vessel of Dance





sourced during somatic practices in south Portugal autumn 2023





photo by Michael 30fillidis location: river Ardas, Greece



Τhe point here is to actually truly connect into the heart,

and let all cells be tuned from there.

No extra, complicated stuff.


Once you are truly connected to your heart presence,

body gets grounded into your essence.


And from there you cannot get easily confused or shaken. If you go deep enough, you will recognise what is truly emerging from inside or what is being dressed on top from outside. .


`Heart has a way to communicate to all the cells in the body and provide radical acceptance and transmit everything is needed.`


Heart knows the way back home.

Otherwise we leak and find ourselves begging or searching for mediators in between. But the truth is already lives and speak through the heart.


She has the ability to recognise the truth. .

Truth is not shouting, neither is super fancy, is rather more silent, caressing in subtle ways and creating space for self acceptance. It has compassion.


From that place the body, the physical body is grounded in essence, it does not try to get grounded. It is simply, is vibrating is its essence, deeply in dialogue with the core of the earth.

It is that simple.



And in the dancing,

It all becomes pretty clear like a mirror.

You see all the tendencies of the human psyche.

The confused one,

the methystic one,

the ecstatic one,

the reserved one,

the controlled one,

the trapped one.

And they are all wonderful. .






- Yet clarity arises from landing in the essence-

- Essence is simple, is Raw, is kind.


Because it knows itself,

it does not negotiate its existence,

it wants to just express and serve.


It is really inspiring to witness bodies that are expressed in their pure essence. It is clear when this is taking place or when an aesthetical technique is being dressed on top.

It is great to a certain measure to learn techniques for sure and yet it can brings us to a confused place, that is fragmenting the nature of our expression when technique replaces our essence.


Cause if there was a reason we fall in love with dancing at some point in early life, I assume was not the technique, but the ecstatic state of moving and dancing with the earth.

It was the life itself.

It was the life force that is dancing through the body.

And yet of course it takes some skills, practice to do it fully completely but it has nothing to do with technical aesthetics. .


And I guess what wants here to speak,

is this thing that lives in the life essence,

that lives effortless through the vessel of the body.

Just making sure that this vessel is clean enough, and it only takes to tune into it.

And is ok sometimes we get dirty, confused or mixed up

but is important to come back to the vessel.


Cause it is only through that vessel we can live and share our essence and in the current times, we need each one of us to be in its own essence.





Much love,

S.





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