SPIRITDANCE IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO CELEBRATE & EXPRESS YOURSELF THROUGH THE HEALING JOURNEY OF DANCE

We invite awareness of Body as it is, Emotion as it is, Heart as it is, Spirit as it is. Sensing, feeling, BEING with our selves, with a partner, with the group. Welcoming our authentic selves. We dance to a kaleidoscope of different musical styles from rock to classical. At its roots, Spiritdance is an invitatation to travel, with consciousness, deep into the wisdom of your body. To witness and move beyond the judgements of your mind, into an awareness of the purity and innocence of your natural Self. (No experience of dance is necessary to take part in these workshops.)

Our bodies have a wonderful innate wisdom. Our bodies know exactly what we need. Our bodies store memories of everything we have ever experienced, they are our unconscious.

Many of us in today's society are ruled by our minds. Full of judgements and mistaken beliefs about ourselves, others and the world. Stressed, depressed, worn down: prone to addictions to fill the void. Or, maybe just feeling unfulfilled, as though something's missing; and in our loneliness and longing for more, we reach outside ourselves for the answers.

Many of us have lost the blessing of being connected to our body wisdom. Ignoring its messages, alienated from our true selves and our in built mechanism for healing. Look around you at the stories held in peoples bodies and your own. The sunken chests, clenched jaws, tight shoulders. The heavy lines etched in brows. The vacant stares. So many with painful backs, necks, heads, stomachs, hearts.

Neuroscientist Candice Pert PH D, tells us "the molecules of our emotions share intimate connections with, and indeed are inseperable from our physiology...." How we think and feel become manifest in our bodies. For the sake of ourselves and our world its time we took responsibility for what we are creating. It is time for us to realise how powerful we are. We have the possibility of living  fully and joyfully everyday, it is our choice.

To feel fully vibrantly alive we need to be totally present in our bodies. Awake. Aware. We need to return to a state of innocence, to the purity of our instinctive, wild, natural animal bodies. To embody our spirits and live with soul.

Spiritdance workshops take you on a journey to yourself. Through breathwork, movement and sound you are guided deeper into the universes within you and outside of you.

We have been teaching this work for many years and are continually awed, humbled and inspired by its power to transform. Spiritdance has been taught in prisons and psychiatric hospitals, as well as in the community. We have witnessed anorexic girls bring awareness to their hips with fear, disgust and self-loathing. Then slowly over the months of conscious practice, we have been overjoyed to see these same girls delighting in the swing of their hips, self-judgement dissolving as they get lost in the beat of the music.

"For the first time in months I have had a break from the battles going on in my mind and felt some peace and happiness." (Anorexic girl, following her first Spiritdance workshop.)

“I’m not just dancing, I’m uprooting weeds that have grown in the cracks of my heart.” Jewel Mathieson