Dancing Become a member today and help keep Erowid online. Repetitive rhythmical movement was thought essential to build up to the moment of ecstatic union with the deity.
Dancing is a gesture of the whole body which can ally the body with the soul.
It is one of the most powerful forms of spiritual or magical ritual. It is a dynamic tool for awakening and stirring the subtle forces and energies of life. True sacred dance is a means of focusing and directing consiousness through physical behavior. It is an outer expression of the inner spirit. He who does not dance does not know what happens.