Taught by Judith Blackstone DancePath is for people who want to approach spiritual realization through a transformation of the body. It uses the Subtle Self Work movement exercises to contact and move through our most subtle dimension of consciousness. This level is deeper than our physical body and our subtle energy system. When we attune to it, we can live and dance with our whole being.
Movement becomes smooth, economical and varied in subtlety and texture.
For the spiritual practitioner, it means that spirituality is grounded in the body, and that even the ordinary movements of daily life can sustain and deepen our spiritual realization. It means that we awaken to our spiritual essence in all the cells of our body. The art of dance is closely aligned with spiritual work in that both disciplines develop presence, fluidity, balance and grace. But dance training often focuses primarily on the physical anatomy, fragmenting the body from the emotional and spiritual aspects of the person. Likewise, spiritual practice often ignores the physical body, fragmenting, and thus diminishing, our attunement to our spiritual consciousness.