Is Dance Meditation?
July 14, 2009 by admin
Filed under Meditation
Mention the word meditation and the first thing that comes to mind is sitting quietly and focusing on breath or a candle flame. Expand your thoughts a bit and you may include guided meditation or guided imagery tapes, relaxing music or chanting a mantra. But dance? Can dance be considered meditation?
The idea of meditation is to focus us in the present away from our worries and stresses and to quiet mind chatter that takes us into the past or future. Sometimes the practice of just sitting quietly opens an even greater space for mind noise and it takes great discipline detach from it. Dance movement brings our focus away from the mind to the body.
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