by Ilene A. Serlin, Ph.D, BC-DMT Over the course of the last twenty years, I have had the opportunity to get more experience working with intergenerational trauma, starting in Israel in 1986 through Dr. Vivien Marcow Speiser and Lesley University.…
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Marian Chace Foundation Lecture 2020 Trauma-Informed Dance Movement Therapy: Real Life Trainings with Syrian Refugees, China and US COVID-19 Hotline
Tagged with: Dance, Movement Therapy, Performing Arts, Rituals, Sacred dance
Posted in authentic Movem, Body Prayer, Dance, Drama, folk dance, Global OutReach, moving meditation, Religious dance, Sacred Dance, Sacred Dance Guild Journal
Posted in authentic Movem, Body Prayer, Dance, Drama, folk dance, Global OutReach, moving meditation, Religious dance, Sacred Dance, Sacred Dance Guild Journal
LIVING ART
The dance that evolves from my practice is a Sacred dance that embodies all the struggles and empowerments of selfhood and identity as well as the liberation of transcendence. These experiences are all interwoven and are integral to my divine journey.
Tagged with: Dance, Performing Arts, Prayer, Sacred dance
Posted in Art, authentic Movem, Body Prayer, Choreography, Dance, Drama, moving meditation, Sacred Dance, Sacred Dance Guild Journal
Posted in Art, authentic Movem, Body Prayer, Choreography, Dance, Drama, moving meditation, Sacred Dance, Sacred Dance Guild Journal
1,000 Bows to Beauty
I am obsessed with the Divine Dance. My dance led and moved me from childhood, into the UCLA Dance Department, through seminary and seminary teaching, into Body and Soul Dance Company, and on to cofound InterPlay with Phil Porter.
AN ECOLOGY OF THE BODY
Our bodies are the earth. The earth is our body. In my practice of walking, dancing and writing in connection to the landscape and seascape is where I keep living these words.
Tagged with: Dance, Environmental Dance, Performing Arts, Prayer, Sacred dance, Site Specific Performance
Posted in Art, authentic Movem, Body Prayer, Choreography, Dance, Drama, Editorial, modern dance, moving meditation, retreat, Sacred Dance, Sacred Dance Guild Journal
Posted in Art, authentic Movem, Body Prayer, Choreography, Dance, Drama, Editorial, modern dance, moving meditation, retreat, Sacred Dance, Sacred Dance Guild Journal
Moving in the Infinite
Dance has become my spiritual practice, the food for my soul, the instrument, with which I can communicate on all levels, the tool to open my awareness beyond the ordinary perception. Enabling me to see and hear, connect and become one with that which moves through all of life.
Tagged with: Carole Stieber, Sacred dance, World Dance
Posted in Dance, Religious dance, Sacred Dance, Sacred Dance Guild Journal, World Dance
Posted in Dance, Religious dance, Sacred Dance, Sacred Dance Guild Journal, World Dance
My Dance
Learning Shakuhachi was the big lesson for this life. I again learned the feeling of connection to the earth. Watching, listening, feeling the breath and then the sound and then the silence. Shakuhachi is a type of Zen and it follows the ancient Japanese tradition of Ma, sound and silence, movement and stillness, object and space and it is clearly seen in the traditional brush painting of black paint and white background.
Tagged with: Debbie Danbrook, labyrinth, Sacred dance, Shakuhachi
Posted in Dance, labyrinth, moving meditation, music, Sacred Dance, Sacred Dance Guild Journal
Posted in Dance, labyrinth, moving meditation, music, Sacred Dance, Sacred Dance Guild Journal
My Lifelong Search for Sacred Dance
When I reflect on my lifelong dedication to Sacred Dance, I see that all along I have been motivated by the longing to worship with others in a way which strengthens community, welcomes the body, and honours women and the earth. The traditional circle dances I’ve been researching for 35 years have been the golden thread guiding me on this journey. The dances represent a living lineage of indigenous European wisdom, in harmony with that of non-European peoples, and the values they embody are exactly the values we need to rekindle now, as we face a critical crossroads in human history.
Tagged with: Circle dance, Findhorn, folk dance, Laura Shannon, Sacred dance
Posted in Circle Dance, Dance, folk dance, moving meditation, Religious dance, Sacred Dance, Sacred Dance Guild Journal, World Dance
Posted in Circle Dance, Dance, folk dance, moving meditation, Religious dance, Sacred Dance, Sacred Dance Guild Journal, World Dance
Alchemy of the Dance
Sacred dance is not just about feeling blissed out and flying into transcendent light though it certainly has that dimension. It is about doing the real work of radical embodiment, where you feel yourself as the marriage of spirit and matter, the marriage of the unknown with the known—your divine self and your shadow, all at once.
Tagged with: Banafsheh Sayyad, Sacred dance, Sufi Dance
Posted in Dance, Sacred Dance, Sacred Dance Guild Journal, Sufi Dance, World Dance
Posted in Dance, Sacred Dance, Sacred Dance Guild Journal, Sufi Dance, World Dance
My Journey with Sacred Dance
It is strange to look back at my journey with sacred dance and see how what seemed to be a random set of circumstances now look like inevitable steps that have taken me where I am now.
For me, the central passion to create all art is quite simply to form a channel for the “sweet honey in the rock”, the flow between the Divine and the self. It has always been my central spiritual practice.
Tagged with: butoh, Marilyn Green, Movement Choir, Sacred dance, Trinity Episcopal Church
Posted in Dance, Liturgical dance, Movement Choir, Sacred Dance Guild Journal
Posted in Dance, Liturgical dance, Movement Choir, Sacred Dance Guild Journal
Why I Am Not a Dancer
These kinesthetic motifs were innate to a life that once placed an ear close to the ground and lifted eyes upward to read the signs and signals of nature. They satisfy the body’s longing for movement that is pure, joyous, and essential
Tagged with: Body Prayer, Judith Rose, mindfulness, Sacred dance
Posted in authentic Movem, Body Prayer, Dance, Sacred Dance, Sacred Dance Guild Journal
Posted in authentic Movem, Body Prayer, Dance, Sacred Dance, Sacred Dance Guild Journal
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