First I will give you the very simple recipe:
1 – Rhythm music for 30 minutes at least, 1 hour or more recommended.
2 – Total silence besides the music, no talking, no distractions (no drinking, no smoking, no interaction with friends or other people besides movement). NO PHONES.
3 – Focus on the music. Focus on the rhythm. Move freely and let the music guide you.
4 – Dance bare foot (optional) and with other souls around you doing the same (highly recommended).
5 – Again NO F TALKING. God is in the dance.
Many moons ago, maybe fate, maybe serendipity, who knows? I discovered this by complete accident. I can tell you that self discovery night passed like a bullet train and felt like pure bliss. And boom… this so simple experience had a profound spiritual positive effect on me. Of happiness, of connection, of grounding.
This conscious dance thing is so simple, yet most people will carry on with life without ever actually trying it. Some may say: “but I go out at night many times to bars and discos!” Sure, but every single time you get distracted, with interruptions, to grab a drink, to socialize with your friends, to look at your phone, to smoke, by some strangers fainted conversations, by whatever.
and in this time of age that more and more anti-depressants are consumed, yet people are sadder and sadder,
So, my invitation is just to try it out, for sure i t will be beneficial to your well being. And if you are stressed out, unhappy or depressed, then please I make you a deep call to action, because this has an incredible power, the power of healing. And in this time of age with anti-depressants consumption almost tripling in the last 20 years12, yet people feeling sadder. Maybe, you know just maybe, the answer is not more pills and psychologists..
Search for conscious dance online (google, instagram, facebook) and for sure you will find groups around you. Some more guided, some less guided, some more party mood, some more formal mood, but at the core all are following the same recipe above.
The same recipe followed since ancient times by generations of dancers from different cultures all around the world:
European Shamanism, Greek Anastenaria, Turkish Sufi whirling, Cuba Santeria, Brazilian Candomblé, Caribbean Shaktism, Moroccan Gnawa, India/Western Psytrance Raves, the San from the Kalahari desert of Namibia and Yoruba of Nigeria, California 5Rythms and Ecstatic Dance movement, the Hadra ritual danced by Moroccan women, Benin’s Fon, Korea Kut ritual etc, etc, etc….
Sign in, pick yourself up and go. In the worst case you loose a couple of hours and a bit of coin, in the best case it will change your life for the better.
- https://www.euronews.com/health/2023/09/09/europes-mental-health-crisis-in-data-which-country-uses-the-most-antidepressants ↩︎
- https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/antidepressant-use-by-country ↩︎