Shadow Dancing the Wave

 

“Shadow dancing with the Wave”

An introduction to Gabrielle Roth’s Shadow Map of Movement Energy

On this workshop John Kelly will teach the practice of Shadow dancing in each of the 5 Rhythms

 

Our shadow is a part of the light (known) and the dark (mystery); it is the part we have left out. When we disown our shadow it becomes big and locked in the body where it takes shape, mood, energy and our action. These are territories, spaces, which we can move through and we can choose between the dancer and the dance.
Our choice is not for or against the shadow, it is a choice to go deeper-in, befriend and move it.

Shadow dancing takes you beyond the bodies’ forbidden borders into territories where the heart can be felt, stirring once more into expression of its first movement: fear.
Fear of the unwanted, unforgiven, denied and despised shadow; waking up and dancing in the Shadowlands calls our heart back into the body. In these workshops we will shadow dance through the moving heart of fear: calling in our anger, sadness, joy and compassion.
I hope you will join me in the Shadowlands of the moving heart.
Love John

 

 

Making waves from the shadows:

The shadow holds space for all that we have forbidden in our lives
Each denied impulse remains locked in this empty shape draining our dance of vitality and color
Shadow dancing returns movement to the forbidden shapes and invites new possibilities
Engaging with the shadow energy changes it
Change is for-giving
Acceptance does the healing

Shadow dancing is primary to all that we explore in the Rhythms
it is opening the door to creativity
acknowledging all possibilities
saying yes to life with all its forms and changes
joining the dance

There is no one to blame
We need willing and courage
To return it all to the dance

Let it go
Let it be
Let it all unravel
Let it free
And it can be
A path on which to travel

JK.