Purevida

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

Yoga Trance Dance is a meeting of two great rivers, yoga and dance, which come from and are united at the source. That infinite creative source is the One, uniting us all. Yoga and dance are two of the oldest paths back home.

Like lovers, they can get separated. Even though we are all born as natural dancers (just watch a toddler instinctually respond to rhythm), dance can easily get swept under the seeming demands of 21st-century living. It is actually the fragmenting effects of modern lifestyles that inspired the union of Yoga Trance Dance. Due to all that sitting, standing, driving, cell phoning, computer or cyber time, we have this strange combination of being more physically bound while mentally scattered – a body/mind split. Some of these effects can be felt as stiffness, rigidity, limited range of motion (even when exercising as on the treadmill or weightlifting), or disembodiment (the “living from the neck up” phenomenon). The antidote: Our body needs to move and our internal state needs to be rejuvenated through meditation and ecstatic embodiment. By Shiva Rea creator of Yoga Trance Dance

What should I expect?

In Yoga Trance Dance, we start with grounding and breathing exercises and movements that you can experiment with to make the body flow and move naturally to different types of sounds or music. The movements range from slow to fast but they are always in tune with your instinctual body. We use inspiring music that includes drumming, world sounds and popular music that will lift your spirt, your body and your mind. Expect to move, sweat and feel alive!