What exactly is yoga dance? I've been looking for a good answer to that question, but it's hard to explain in words. I could say it's a crazy-fun dance party (which it is), or I could say that it cleanses your chakras (which it does), but both answers lack something. What is it about this practice that makes it so compelling? I think it comes down to rhythm.
I've heard many people say: "I don't have rhythm." Do you have a pulse? Everyone has rhythm, it's intrinsic to our bodies. Our breath is rhythm, our heartbeart is rhythm, our cells pulse with it. But we can lose our connection to that rhythm. Dancing, any kind of dancing, helps us reconnect. When we dance we realign--all the parts of our selves moving to the same beat.
The practice of yoga brings consciousness to breath and movement. We breathe and move all day long, the power of yoga comes from focusing our attention. Yoga dance brings consciousness to dance, in this practice I surrender to rhythm and let all the scattered pieces fall into place. That is why I keep coming back to this--when I dance with awareness I give all of myself to the beat.
If you've been to yoga dance, what was it you loved most?
And if you haven't been yet, come to class!
I've heard many people say: "I don't have rhythm." Do you have a pulse? Everyone has rhythm, it's intrinsic to our bodies. Our breath is rhythm, our heartbeart is rhythm, our cells pulse with it. But we can lose our connection to that rhythm. Dancing, any kind of dancing, helps us reconnect. When we dance we realign--all the parts of our selves moving to the same beat.
The practice of yoga brings consciousness to breath and movement. We breathe and move all day long, the power of yoga comes from focusing our attention. Yoga dance brings consciousness to dance, in this practice I surrender to rhythm and let all the scattered pieces fall into place. That is why I keep coming back to this--when I dance with awareness I give all of myself to the beat.
If you've been to yoga dance, what was it you loved most?
And if you haven't been yet, come to class!
To me Yoga Dance is freedom...... freedom to be and do whatever I am feeling at the moment. Sometimes it's following the teachers cues, sometimes following someone else's, sometimes doing what my body is feeling. Most of all LYYD (Let Your Yoga Dance) is the freedom to have FUN, real fun, whatever that is for you at that moment. If you haven't been to a class yet - go - it will blow you away.
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I loved how you talk about the power of rhythm. I love how the practice sets me free to be exactly who I am in any moment and gives safe space to be expressed fully. In LYYD I can dance through my anger or sadness, my joy and elation, whatever shows up is welcome.
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