Dance The Day Before New Year's!

2011. A year of hope, fear, paralysis and activism. Fight? Flight? Freeze? Fly! In the good company of friends old and new, let's celebrate that which holds fast and clear and alive amidst the furious blur of change: the eye of the heart, shared and seen and offered freely, against all odds. We'll dance, supported by music known and new, gentle and grand, in accord with this day, unlike any other day. Gather and warm up, 11-noon; opening circle @ noon, traveling together until 2pm. Western Sky Studio, 2525 8th Street, Berkeley 94710. Come for part or all, but do come! We need us. $10-$15 suggested donation. Cash a problem? Trade arrangements available: lucid.ocean@gmail.com. Love.

Hope and Fear, Pretending

In these miraculous times, the air (spirit) and the earth (body) are ripe with uncertainty, change, and possibility. The world wobbles: imploding, exploding, barely settling to note its 7 billionth citizen. Hope and fear, like shy and hard-headed partners, dance on opposite sides of the room, each pretending to ignore the other.

Join the impeccable possibility of moving with all there is, inside and out, in an atmosphere of support and inclusion. I humbly aspire to hold Soul Motion space with openness and humanity. You show up with who you are (again, or for the first time), and we see/feel/move with what happens. This is a moment among moments. We can do this!
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This and every Thursday in Berkeley, 6-8pm
The Ocean Refuses No River
Soul Motion Conscious Dance Practice
Eighth Street Studio
2525 8th Street
bet Dwight and Parker

The Space Between: Soul Motion in the Foothills, 11/5/11

Held once again in the embrace of Moonbear’s 30' yurt on gorgeous land in the Sierra foothills, this time in the potent time between fall and winter, we'll dance and dream in the subtle spaces between in- and outbreath, sound and silence, impulse and action. Bask in supple guidance, spacious music. All are welcome!
Noon – 6pm
Saturday, November 5
Moonbear Sanctuary
Nevada City, California
$75 (if registered by October 21)
$95 thereafter (space permitting)
Inquiries: 510-847-7736; lucid.ocean@gmail.com
Registration: by PayPal (below), or by sending a check to Michael Zipkin, 447 Beloit Avenue, Kensington, CA 94708.

Register Here

Early reg (by 10/21) $75.00Space permitting $95.00

Refuge: A Soul Motion Worskhop in the Foothills 9/10/11

Held in the embrace of Moonbear’s 30' yurt on gorgeous land in the Sierra foothills, we’ll inspire and be inspired by each other to move with confidence and courage. Traveling the spiral pathways to our most intimate dance, we’ll expand to include our fellow travelers in dialogue, discourse and divine prayer. We’ll also have the opportunity to walk the labyrinth adjacent to our dance space. Please bring water, lunch and whatever else you need to support you in this day of refuge and rejuvenation. Bask in supple guidance and spacious music. And we will dance. Oh, yes, we will dance.
Noon – 6pm
Saturday, September 10
Moonbear Sanctuary
Nevada City, California
$75 (if registered by August 19)
$95 thereafter (space permitting)
Inquiries: lucid.ocean@gmail.com
Registration: http://tinyurl.com/soulmotion-moonbear

price options

Early reg (by 8/19) $75.00 Space permitting $95.00

Dance Camp Soul Motion Soundtrack

with appreciation of your appreciation, and of all of you:

w a r m u p :

1st Movement/Nakai & Khechog/Winds Of Devotion  
2nd Movement/Nakai & Khechog/Winds Of Devotion   
Devorzhum/Dead Can Dance/Spiritchaser
The Healer/John Lee Hooker w/Santana/The Definitive Collection   
Om Kali/Robert Gass & On Wings Of Song/Kirtana (feat. Danya River)

b o d y  o f  t h e  d a n c e :
Abraxas/Clarence Clemons/Peacemaker   
The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove (Remastered)/Dead Can Dance/Into The Labyrinth (Remastered)
Hidden Sky/Jami Sieber/Hidden Sky
Go It Alone/Beck/Guero   
Brandenburg/Black Violin/Black Violin   
Nwahulwana/Wazimbo and Orchestra Marrabenta Star de Mocambique/Nwahulwana   
Daphne/1 Giant Leap/One Giant Leap   
Rock On Hanuman (Bhakti Brothers Flying Monkey Remix) [feat. Krishna Das]/MC Yogi/Elephant Powered Remixes   
Walk Like An Egyptian (Bassnectar's 2003 Remix)/The Bangles/Bass Music       
6 POWER OSCI/Shuta Hasunuma/POP OOGA   
Groovin' (feat. Stephen Morris)/Pato Banton/Pato Banton and Friends  
May This Be Love/Meshell Ndegeocello/Bitter   
Rebirth/Midival Punditz/Midival Times
Unspoken/NEeMA/Watching You Think   
Moon (Rasalka) (After Dvorak's Mesicku Na Nebi Hlubokem)/Coco De Mer/Coco De Mer   
Beautiful Day (Radio Version)/Laidback/Beautiful Day - EP   
Bird 1/Underworld/Barking   
Losing My Religion (House Remix)/Brooklyn Avenue/Losing My Vinyl
The Way You Dream/1 Giant Leap featuring Michael Stipe & Asha Bhosle/1 Giant Leap   
Sweet Old World/Emmylou Harris/Wrecking Ball

The fine, fine wind that takes its course through the chaos of the world

Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me!
A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time.

If only I let it bear me, carry me, if only it carry me!
If only I am sensitive, subtle, oh, delicate, a winged gift!
If only, most lovely of all, I yield myself and am borrowed
By the fine, fine wind that takes its course through the chaos of the world
Like a fine, an exquisite chisel, a wedge-blade inserted;

If only I am keen and hard like the sheer tip of a wedge
Driven by invisible blows,
The rock will split, we shall come at the wonder, we shall find the Hesperides.



Oh, for the wonder that bubbles into my soul,

I would be a good fountain, a good well-head,

Would blur no whisper, spoil no expression.



What is the knocking?
What is the knocking at the door in the night?

It is somebody wants to do us harm.


No, no, it is the three strange angels.

Admit them, admit them.
– DH Lawrence

Rising to the Occasion

 

Rooted in the soul's body, 

Ready to rise and shine,

No matter what the weather,

Inside and out

Above and below 

Around and within.

It Is a Good Day

Landforms, clouds. Trees in mist, always possible. Choice? Walk. Into, out of, through. And then we die.

the dynamic stillness

it is here
in the breath
it is here
in the stillness between breaths
     it is here
     in the active mind
     it is here
     in the resting mind
it is here
in the dream's panorama
it is here
in each moment of awakening
     it is here
     when all is well
     it is here
     when fear has nothing left to fear
even then
there is pure noticing
even then
there is no need for doing
     no frantic searching
     can find the obvious
     no seeking needed
     to find that which seeks
it is here
where it can never be lost
or found

from Gifts with No Giver: a love affair with truth

Nirmala

Torn Almost in Two

It's never too late to burn the fuel of desire.
Stanley Kunitz' "Touch Me"