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midWest Dance Collective Camp 2008

aletheia777 — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:38:30 GMT

Diana's Grove hosts Midwest Dance Collective Camp

September 11-14, 2008

Join us for the most spectacular Dance Camp yet, with the support of Diana’s Grove and very talented dance and movement teachers! If you have attended before, expect even more. If you have not, please check out the webpage for details. Webpage includes pictures of the space and past camps, instructions, directions, registration forms and information for interested teachers.

We are planning classes in African Dance and Drumming, Belly Dance, Trance Dance, Soul Motion, Contact Improvisation, Poi and Yoga.

In addition to a full class schedule there will be a Dance Party or Drum circle every night!

Register early because class and cabin spaces are limited!

Registration Fee: Thursday-Sunday $265 OR Friday-Sunday $215 (postmarked after July 15).

Early registration discounts:
Registration postmarked by June 15: $225 Thursday-Sunday, $175 Friday-Sunday
Registration by postmarked by July 15: $245 Thursday-Sunday, $195 Friday-Sunday

For more information check out: www.midwestdancecamp.com or contact Jenntara at jenntara@yahoo.com or 314-497-8452

JennTara Ward, LMT
314-497-8452

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The WEB OF DREAMS deserves your participation

CLAYTON — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 10:01:35 GMT

Sacred geometry, universal energy, IBVA experiments linked with real time video, the opportunity to study yourself and others in a lucid REM state with state of the art equipment, recorded experiences, thousands of lights, music and more create “The Web Of Dreams”! An Interactive art piece symbolizing the connection of all things and how what you choose affects everything. It is designed to generate life-changing breakthroughs!

Allow yourself while in the Web to work through your fear and be inspired to make new empowering choices that create more hope for your future! Those who choose to be wrapped and suspended in the Web may discover that resistance creates the persistence of fear but acceptance allows for the disappearance of fear. Shed your fixed beliefs and ways of being while inside the Web and step into a new world of increased hope and possibility!

The web will offer up personal truths, it will offer up hope and dreams, it will offer a true reflection of how what you choose (hope or fear) affects the outcome of your future in a clear representation in the present moment.

“The Web of Dreams” will be placed 1300 ft from the man at 1:30. We will be doing IBVA EXPEREMENTS ALL WEEK. This will give us a chance to look at what is going on in the brain as someone is experiencing what ever they might be experiencing, Think of the possabilities. If this intrest you at all I encourage you to look at our web site and find out more about what we are creating on the playa this year. please if you are interested RESPOND TO THIS POST. LET ME KNOW YOU ARE INTERESTED.

We got a late start on this idea but we know, with some help from the community, we can still pull it off (no fear only hope). We have most everything we need but if the opportunity to assist others in breaking through their fear and gaining more hope and possibility inspires you we invite you to become a part of the “Web Team” and help in anyway you can. We are looking for people to fill volunteer shifts, donate money (we still need over $1,000) or any supplies we still need please contact me on Tribe or directly:

CLAYTON AND TERRY ALLRED

801-523-7094

For more info on the “Web Of Dreams” or to donate few dollars today(every little bit will help)by Pay Pal check out the web site at: webofdreams.home.comcast.net/

I truly look forward to the most amazing experience on the Playa with you and may all of your fears serve you in the end to achieve all your hopes!

Love,

Clayton
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two dreamtime-vision-songs to share "balance" and "indigo revolution"

teresa — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 22:04:11 GMT

www.myspace.com/teresagabriel37

u can listen here :)

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Tell your story!!

heatherbear — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 19:48:42 GMT

I was drawn to this tribe by it's mission statement. I hope that i can learn more about the lives and happenings of westcoast and world traveling visionaries.

If you have a moment, I request that you share your stories and images. Let's see if we can reawaken this site.

I am currently in Seattle. I am taking care of my godson while his mother is in Egypt. I have an apartment in LA and I am contemplating a moving up to Seattle to live with Tara and Jalen. I would like to dig into the creative culture of Seattle. I'd like to offer my services to those who might need a extra hand setting up for a performance or show.

Blessings and joy to you all.
Heather

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balilove

heatherbear — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 19:39:27 GMT

I want to share this with you. Its difficult to condense these experiences into words but I wish to reach out and touch you. FOrgive me for flowery lines and unbroken thoughts. I was in Bali and that’s how it is. I just have to let everything flow out ....

Bali, is for me, a paradise of yin possibility. I found exquisite joy in small things like flowers in my hair and cleaning rice with Balinese sisters and lush friendship vortexes. Time here, slips out from under you in the gorgeous ease of the day. Rubbertime, Balinese call it, rubber drips into your time so that each moment stretches out and cushions you. Bali is full invitations to lean back and be blissful, its in the food and in the homes with bamboo space and running streams.

Bali for me is also revealing. It strengthened my body and spirit while very gently showing me my weakness and shortcomings. My fears and neediness came to the surface so that I could deal with them in love. Much of this was facilitated by a woman I met the second day I was there, Wayan. Kadek and Tutti also. These three femme fatales made the core of my experience there.

There is a fire-spinner who did a poi workshop in Ko Pha Ngan, Thailand. In january, as I prepared for travel, I was searching the web for firespinning in Thailand and his post came up. Forest. I soon realized that several people I know in LA, know Forest, and I only heard glowing things about him. Through tribe.net I continued to follow his posts. When he wrote about Bali, something woke up inside me. Yes! I had heard on the wind about an artistic mission going there. So in Bangkok, I bought a ticket to Bali. And in Ubud, I went to pass by an ex-pat hang out that Forest had mentioned. Then I saw, across the street, Balinese Traditional Healing. Learn Balinese dance. Yes! Dance and healing practices. Learning these is a major mission of my adventure. I followed guiding lights and here it is. I walked in to talk to Wayan about learning dance.

The night before I had seen some of this dance. Low, connected to the earth, elbows akimbo, hands taut. Flashes of gold, sweeping sarong tails and flowers, flowers, flowers. And the eyes, Darting. Small shifts in the eyebrows tell the story.

I asked Wayan about dance. She looked at me and I looked at her. We recognized each other. She invited me to a Temple ceremony that night and the following day to go to a healing temple. Earlier that day I had the sense that I would be going to a temple so I already had my temple dress ...

The healing temple is a large pool with fountains fed by a freshwater spring. At each fountainhead one prays and bathes. Part of the Ben Ben Stone film crew was there as well. We held flowers in our fingertips with prayer hands above our heads. I took that moment to connect strongly and clearly to the Divine. Afterwards, Wayan had a feast for us, grilled tofu and tempeh, water spinach, seaweed, red rice and noni juice were among the good things to eat.

The food! Wow! I've never eaten such energizing food. It is food with love cooked into it. After the healing temple I stayed with Wayan for a few days. This time together was important for increasing my self-awareness and understanding of Balinese life. I came up against gaps in economic equality in friendship and the difficulties of mixing healing work and business. I also saw the battle to direct passion and love and how these energies can be fruitful and also abused. Wayan, Kadek, and Tutti, these women clearly reflected to me certain aspects of myself. Much of the time, I just hung out in the restaurant with them, teaching English, learning Indonesian phrases, participating in whatever small tasks were at hand. We practiced massage skills together. I made some monetary donations to the household. A little dance. Later Wayan found an experienced dance teacher for us. We all practiced together. It was fun, trying to hold the positions, sweating, using one foot to sweep away the trailing sarong. It opened options for me as a dancer.

Wayan took me to see a healer with a holy knife. It was surreal. "Intense form of acupressure" - my mind held on to this phrase as a way of rationalizing what I was doing. Six Balinese and me sat in a small structure and watched the holy healing knife go to work on each person's body. Each person removed their shirt and sat in front of the healer. The healer pressed the dull point of the knife into the body, and dug in or drew it across their skin. Without breaking the skin. But enough to hurt. The healer cackled as his victi- I meant patient winced and cried out. When my turn came I balked momentarily, then gave myself over to it. I sat in my bra and sarong with my back to him. He reached under my arm and across my chest, and gave me a swift twist, and my back said POP!-POP pop POP. He twisted me to the other side and it felt great. Then he searched out my body evils with his knife. I breathed into the prodding until he got to my feet. He drew the knife tip across the souls of my feet and jabbed it between my toes. After a few minutes I couldn't stand it and I pulled my feet out of the operation. He told Wayan that the source of my energy block, why I get so easily fatigued, is in my feet. Which could be true. Strange things happen in my body when my feet get attention.

Then it was Wayan's turn. Knife on the back thighs and shoulders. Her long black down to there hair sways around her body. She pulls down her bra and shows the healer her breast. She lays back and he pinches and twists her coffeebean nipple with one hand and with the other hand, he presses in the knife. Wayan's face creases with sensual folds of pain and relief. She jerks and cries out. The audience, the Balinese and me are riveted. We leave our mouths ajar so that mosquitoes fly in and suck blood from our tongues. I am surprised and not surprised. I know what this is about. The pain that is being addressed in the breast.

Five days passed without my notice. Rubbertime. I started to feel restless, so I hired a guide to accompany on my motorbike to Amed. Snorkeling. Wayan fretted. She gave my guide a serious warning to keep us safe. My gentle lovely guide. He taught me to smoke cloves with breakfast. We explored iridescent communities in as offshore shipwreck. Challenging myself to dive deeper and deeper, swimming through the hull of the downed ship. Staying down, equalizing the pressure in my ears, going further and further until I was on the edge of panic, holding calm as I rise up for air.

When I get back Wayan says she can't sleep worrying about me on my motorbike.

"You want some food?" It became a phrase of loving concern. Each time I walked into the restaurant Kadek would ask "You want some food?" As my time to leave drew near I heard the phrase more and more, even when I had just turned down the offer. We started to laugh about it. I started to say it back, "You want some food? How about coffee? Tea?" Wayan and I plotted out dreams for the future. We started to get sad at the thought of saying goodbye. "I get really sad you leaving, you know?" Me too. But I'll be back. Undoubtedly, I will return.

Also, there are wonderful interactions with other travelers and seekers. My last night there was a gather at the home of the yoga teacher Sky. At the end of the evening four gorgeous boys remained and I watched them play tumble through wrestling/partner yoga/acrobatics. Then we laid out on the floor and made sound vibrational harmony. Sky was my guide for the shivering challenge of a late night Temple crawl at Besakih. He explained the significant points of Hinduism and helped me eat my first Durian. Durians. I could eat Durians everyday for the rest of my life. It's more of an experience than a food ....

So that I was still thinking about Durians when I arrived in Bangkok.
Premonition.

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travel guidance

heatherbear — Sun, 06 Mar 2005 23:06:57 GMT

Hello dear dancing friends,

I'm about to travel. I hope to move through Thailand, Bali and India over the next 4 months. It is my intention to increase my understanding of sacred/ritual dance during the course of this adventure.

Does anyone have advice or tips about sites, performances, teachers or other ways that I might absorb cosmic rhythm skills? I’d love to hear about your experiences and be inspired.

With flames of joy and much love,
Heather

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Its been a while....

gabrieltodd — Sat, 13 Nov 2004 18:31:15 GMT

Hello tribe friends. Just curious if anyone wants to share their experiences as movers sounders, how inspiration comes to you. What initially drew you to this tribe?
What would make this tribe more inclusive, more interesting for you?

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Framing the creative impulse

gabrieltodd — Sat, 13 Nov 2004 18:45:44 GMT

I have been working for a while now with different ways to craft the intuitive bits of sound and movement that come through into form, choreography, songs, chant, practice form,etc, and also try to honour the intention of the song or dance.
One of my teachers says that dances and songs have their own intention, their own pathway, if we can support that pathway, and to co-create with the soul of the song or dance, then we can receive what that song or dance has to offer more fully, and the potential (if it is the will of the song/dance) to share that with others,
She says that if the song/dance is not honored it may not survive
in its most clear and powerful form.
I also feel that songs/dances change sometimes according to what is needed.
What are some of your experiences or interests in working with Intuited moments of song or movement into form, either for self use or for sharing? What are the challenges of continuing that flow of energy of the intitial experience into the set forms?

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the critic

gabrieltodd — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 06:36:13 GMT

by candle light in the warmth of my studio space.
warming my spine. falling and rolling. standing. sounding.
feels like someone is watching. I look outside and the street below is empty. I close my eyes and continue to move dreaming into the watcher. I feel/see? the presence of the shadowy figure of my killer, (the one who has assaulted me twice)whose breath is on my neck, as I move (as I exist). I shift into the watcher/killer and feel him move my flesh. He wants to be seen too. He is heat in the belly and sharp arms, his vision is like a hunters, tracking a whirl of night visions, I start to get edged out, and can no longer hold him. I slip back into my fear of him ( and some of the trauma of past physical abuse and assault), so I slow down, and call on the meta communicator in neutral. She is calm and sees that I am both the hunted and the hunter. I am curious about the the sharp movement the intense focus and tracking of the killer , and try working with those qualities. I notice that it is difficult in this moment to be so clear and direct with my movement, and even as I try this I feel a circle of watchers. I sustain the exploration of these qualities with an inner focus on the feeling of it, gaze downward. The heat and intensity of the movement becomes more and more fierce- quick turns and sharp directional shifts. Also the intensity of the watchers increases, but something shifts and I bring my gaze up to meet thiers I stay with the quality of movement and meet thier faces, this is difficult, they are my critics analizing each detail and position, realizing this for a moment fear tries to creep in and I hold the gaze and push through. I start to feel more relaxed in this state and soon I notice the quality of my movement has shifted to a more fluid and lyrical(kind of reminds me of a belly dancer) so I work with the feeling of being a belly dancer and how good it feels to move fluidly and rhythmically, sexy, and clear with each gesture and turn, there is something solid and also relaxed about this quality. I shift between the hunter/killer and the belly dancer staying connected to the gaze of the watchers. I need both of these qualities. there is more and I will just take a breath and see what is next.

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Inspirations ~

Marcus — Fri, 05 Mar 2004 19:26:39 GMT

Soulsteps & Dreamsongs folk,

What inspires you to create ritual dance, song and movement ?

Where and how do you like to perform your movement rituals ?

Is there someone, or some group performing this work that you really admire ?

What are your processes as you begin to create works ?

Do you find inspiration in someone's writings and ideas, or do you work from a place of intuitive, internal unfolding & self-discovery ?

~ Marcus

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Role call

gabrieltodd — Mon, 01 Mar 2004 22:41:51 GMT

Welcome.
I would love to learn more about who we are and what we do.
How does singing, moving, or making music play a part in your life in connection to spiritual practice, art making, healing, connecting to the environment (natural, urban, or otherwise), and those within and around you?
Maybe say what has drawn you to join.

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Inspiration in public places......

gabrieltodd — Tue, 06 Apr 2004 16:36:12 GMT

Often I recieve songs or feel movement impulses out in the landscape of the city, on the public transport, or at the bus stop, walking home or through certain neighborhoods, etc. Sometimes I follow them and sing or do micro-movements of a much bigger dance that is happening inside me. I try to just stay with the energies as much as possible and feel what ever is moving through me. I have practiced intentional sound and movement out in public places, usually with others, and it is an amazing tool for transformation and research. It is slightly different though (maybe not) when one is out in thier day headed to work, or school, etc. and suddenly there is a very strong thread of energy trying to be born as a yodeling song, or a funky jig that wants to stop the traffic for a moment.
Do any of you ever feel the impulse to just bust out and dance in the street while you are waiting for the bus, or do you sing songs (to yourself/outloud) while you are walking down the street? Do you ever notice that certain songs only visit you at certain times, or in very specific places?
Just curious.....

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Post pictures....

gabrieltodd — Thu, 11 Mar 2004 23:51:32 GMT

Please feel free to post pictures that inspire you, that you feel should be here. Drawings, pictures of you dancing, or connecting with nature, or singing, street rituals, group rituals, etc. Pictures of your teachers, or spirit helpers, dancers, singers, visionaries, that inspire your work.
peace-
uma

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gesture: a movement tool of remembering

doshi — Tue, 02 Mar 2004 21:48:12 GMT

isn't it strange and somewhat frustrating how a mystical or transendental experience will often be filed away by the mind into the realm of dreams to become hazy or ,often, forgotten altogether?
the body can often remember what the mind will not. using a full bodied gesture or a song may be a way to integrate these experiences into a more full awareness. "chrystalizing" a mystical experience into one of these forms may provide an access point to this information. a gesture or a tune may be more easily called forth into memory. it's sort of like a physical sigil, triggering a certain state.

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sing my soul home

gabrieltodd — Sat, 21 Feb 2004 08:24:08 GMT

Hello-
I have started this tribe to connect with others who work with voice and movement to connect to source, make art, do healing work, performance, ritual, innerwork, etc. There is a great need for this work in these times. We need to create dances and songs that speak to the soul and help people to locate themselves and feel thier feet in the earth, remember thier interdependance.

I have a lot to share and look forward to meeting you.
UMA

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