Dance with me

Sometimes

I wake up in the morning 

and my body feels heavy

perhaps a bit stuck

and I notice my thoughts can be the same

heavy and stagnant

thinking the same thought over and over again

in an endless loop. 

When I move

I am in a dialogue with the waters

in me 

and around me. 

The more I dance

the more I realize

that when I dance

I am communicating with all of life. 

Life is communicating with me

through me.  

If we can listen a bit more

to the waters that move through us

we can remember that 

we are the body of the universe. 

We can feel

and transform

together

as humans always have

in collaboration with the cycles 

of life

in collaboration with 

the earth

the air

the fire

the water. 

Western culture teaches us that coping with grief, transitions, challenges is an individual task - my traumas, my difficulties, my therapeutic journey.  Yet, since time immemorial, humans have healed and transformed, together, in collaboration with one another and with the natural world, in reverence for the cycles which are the basis of all life, in gratitude.

You are part of a larger wisdom, a movement of the cosmos, mirrored in the interdependence and cross pollination of a healthy forest.  We live together, us humans, the trees, the birds, the ancestors, the children, the fire, the earth, the air, the water. You are never truly alone. 

You can always turn to these elements to ask for, and receive support.