ABOUT CHAKRADANCE
Chakradance™ is a healing movement therapy practice. It’s a form of nourishment for your true self – for your soul. We use spontaneous dance, to specific chakra-resonant music, for the purpose of healing and re-tuning your whole mind-body-spirit energy system.
You will be invited to let go of old wounding, release repressed feelings and other negative energies that might be festering in your body. Energies which often show themselves as physical symptoms or emotional and mental challenges.
With Chakradance™ you simply dance yourself into balance and harmony, a place from which you can meet the world with a renewed sense of self-worth, feeling grounded and joyous.
It offers liberation from all that no longer serves you.
It feels like coming home to yourself.
Dance as a spiritual discipline is an ancient practice that has been explored by many cultures throughout the ages. Chakradance™, a new movement modality, takes this tradition into the 21st century. There are no set steps and you dance as if no one is watching, to modern dance music in a sacred space.
Using the ancient Indian yogic system of the seven main Chakras as our map, we move towards a greater sense of embodied consciousness. Each chakra acts as an energetic gateway allowing universal energy to flow in and out of our systems. Each chakra corresponds with particular body organs and reflects an aspect of consciousness on an emotional, psychological and spiritual level. Each chakra has an attributed element, archetypes, animals, planets, crystals, herbs etc. These can all be used as pathways into the chakras enabling us to connect more deeply with the energies existing within each one.
At the heart of Chakradance™ is the music. Each of these seven chakras has its own unique body of specifically composed music, resonating to each chakra’s own specific vibrational frequency. We turn the volume up so that we feel the music reverberate through our bodies – it is like a form of vibrational medicine.
Drawing on the wisdom of Jungian psychology, Chakradance™ is a dance for healing and self-discovery. Each dance gives rise to different insights and feelings and we use the creative activity of drawing into a mandala as a way of anchoring our experiences back into our conscious world.
One dance at a time, you’ll move closer to the person you are truly meant to be.
If you are ready to explore, then book a FREE call to find out how to kickstart your own Chakradance™ journey.
What will I experience
Think of Chakradance™ as a dynamic moving meditation.
There is no right or wrong way to move your body. It’s a journey of self-discovery. Each chakra is explored through specific music, guided imagery, and your own free, improvised dance, done in a dimly lit space with your eyes softly closed or your gaze lowered. This begins to activate inner experiences for, unlike most other dance practices, Chakradance™ is about making a connection with our inner world – the world of our imagination, feelings, intuition and senses.
It’s almost like entering into a waking dream. You may see images in your mind’s eye while you are dancing or gain insights. You may also experience feelings, emotions or physical sensations surfacing.
On one level, Chakradance™ can be experienced as a joyful affirmation of who you truly are. Using spontaneous dance, creativity and your imagination, it leads to an awakening, a discovery of your true self.
And at a deeper level, Chakradance™ is about deep healing and balance. By surrendering to the music of each chakra, we dance from the inside out and find ourselves awakening and healing ancient hurts; expressing – often for the first time – long blocked emotions; and opening ourselves up to levels of spiritual connection greater than we ever thought possible.
This is what we mean when we describe Chakradance™ as “rhythm for your soul”.
The experience is often described as entering into a waking dream – we dance up forgotten parts of ourselves, and release the memories stored in our muscles. Our aches and pains reveal their stories, and our hidden fears unmask themselves. The experiences are deeply personal and reflect our own nature and history. Yet at the same time we tap into the collective heights and depths of human experience, sometime using archetypical energies to gain further insights.
At MY Living Temple offerings include both live classes and e-learning programmes to follow in the comfort of your own home. This gives you every opportunity to choose the Chakradance journey that best suits your daily life.
More about the Chakras
Chakras are the body’s energy centres. In the ancient Indian language Sanskrit, chakra means ‘wheel’ or ’round disc’. In Chakradance™ we work with the seven main chakras, located along your spine from the tailbone up to the top of your head. Here you can find out more about the way we explore the seven chakras through dance. You get the name of the chakra in both English and Sanskrit.
Base Chakra / Muladhara
The first centre to explore on the Chakra map is the base chakra. The spontaneous movements that emerge while dancing the base chakra tend to draw inspiration from tribal dancing, as found in the indigenous cultures of Africa, Australia and North America. These tribal dances are linked to the issues of the base, including our roots, survival and grounding. In Chakradance™, emphasised movements of the legs and feet connect us to the solid earth. Many envisage dancing around an ancient campfire, bringing the primitive tribal dance to life. These ancient cultures also had imitative dances, emulating the movements of animals. Again, we can draw inspiration from these roots and dance in an animal-like way. In this wild and raw animal dance, our innate instinctual self is reclaimed.
Sacral Chakra / Svadhisthana
The dance of the sacral chakra can be inspired by the feminine dances found in the Middle East, South America, and Hawaii. Dances from these regions celebrated many of the qualities associated with the sacral chakra, including feelings, emotions, and sexuality. This sacral dance can be slow and sensual, or flirtatious and erotic, with fluid movements of the hips and lower belly. Throughout this dance one transforms into a gypsy, a belly dancer, an ancient goddess, as we surrender to the serpentine movements of the feminine.
Solar Plexus Chakra / Manipura
To dance the solar plexus chakra is to call on the warrior dances of ancient Greece, Morocco, Spain, Mexico and Brazil. These warrior dances were masculine, powerful, athletic and virile, as they rhythmically mimicked the art of the fight. In Chakradance™, we enter this dance with dramatic movements, strong, purposeful and clearly defined. As the energy builds, movements can become more complex, even frenzied. Through this dynamic movement, the solar energy ignites, and our inner warrior emerges.
Heart Chakra / Anahata
Dancing the heart chakra is being moved to dance with joy and compassion. In ancient Egypt dances using exaggerated arm movements would gently whirl participants into deep states of joyful harmony. Dancing the heart chakra mirrors this. Also reflected are dances from China, in which mimetic movements expressed the union of heaven and earth, symbolised balance — one of the chief operating qualities of the heart chakra. In Chakradance™, we draw inspiration from these dances, and move the arms to feel uplifted, light and free. Inspired by the ancient ones, we dance a soaring journey of love, compassion, and joy.
Throat Chakra / Vishuddha
The dance of the throat chakra can be inspired by many ancient dances, where the voice and dance were woven together. In Ancient Egypt, performers often danced while reciting poetry, while in Hawaii, chant and dance were combined to communicate the story. In Tibetan culture, mystical rituals performed by monks would combine chanting and sound, with delicate movements of the body. In Chakradance™, we weave sound and movement to intensify self-expression and creativity.
Third Eye Chakra / Ajna
At the third eye chakra, we can lift up into ecstatic and altered states of consciousness through trance dance. This practice is still common throughout the world, and existed in many of the ancient cultures of Southeast Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas. There were numerous reasons, ritualistic and medicinal, for entering into trance. In Chakradance™, trance dance is used to open the third eye chakra. Each dancer drifts into his or her own visual universe … images, colours, insights … the third eye has no boundaries.
Crown Chakra / Sahasrara
The dance of the crown chakra is a devotional dance. Cultures from every continent have embraced some form of religious or spiritual dancing. In ancient Shamanic practice, dance was used to commune with the Spirits, whilst in Ancient Egypt there were certain ritual dances that were crucial to the successful outcome of religious rites. The Tantric Buddhists of Nepal have an ancient dance tradition known as Charya Nritya, a Sanskrit term meaning ‘dance as a spiritual discipline’. In Chakradance™ we open the gateway to the soul through a meditative sacred dance. This is the most paradoxical of dances: it is the dance of stillness. Often there will be little physical movement visible to any observer. The dance is internal, for now it is the soul that dances, dancing with the gods.
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