Pulse Yoga is holding a trance dance with Teresa Herrera on March 7 & 21, 2008, 7:30 PM at their studio along 23 Florida St., Greenhills, San Juan City.

 

What is a Trance Dance?

The Pulse Yoga website describes it as follows:

“Yoga Trance Dance is an exploration of the eternal flow of natural movement through yoga. Beginning with sahaja (spontaneous) prana yoga or the experience of prana initiating yoga asanas, yoga trance dance flows into an exploration of free-form, breath driven movement to liberate one’s creative life-force and cultivate embodied freedom.

Dance and yoga, particularly hatha yoga, are ways of calling us back into our bodies to irrigate our being with life energy known in yoga as “prana.” Prana is the animating force the energy of being alive and is most clearly felt through breathing. From the yogic view, the great breath flowing through us all is intelligence or consciousness itself. With flow yoga, we let the intelligence of our breath lead movement the way a sailor tacks with the wind. Trance dance has a similar focus. Rather than emphasizing an outward performance, the goal of trance dancing is to let your creative energy move through you to be guided by spirit (or “spiritus,” which is the Latin root for inspiration the place where life breath and enlivening creativity meet). Thus, in yoga trance dance, form serves spirit, structure supports intuition, yoga prepares you for free-form dance, and your dance opens your being for a greater experience of the unified self that is yoga.”

For more information, click HERE.

And for advance notice on more of Teresa Herrera events, I read in MahaMondo’s blog that she will be conducting a yoga dive/retreat off Tubbataha reefs (Palawan) from May 12-17, 2008. Watch for this, if you are adventurous enough to combine yoga with snorkeling, scuba diving and kayaking.