Dance is a medium of yoga and meditation, which emerges due to the harmony of body, mind and soul.
A dancer needs to gain considerable control over normally automatic responses
such as breathing, balance and emotion. Emotion is the ultimate key by
consciously evoking and channeling the emotions, transcendence can be achieved
personally and transmitted to another person. When the body is in a healthy
condition and finely tuned then dance really can become initiation.
The dancer is closely associated with female power of initiation. The dancer
makes use of body movements and tells a story through gesture and mime. Whole
epic is expressed in dance serving to initiate people into a non-verbal level of
understanding. A dance is a yogic posture particularly suitable for toning up
vitality and circulating energy.
In ancient Egypt, the dancers were believed to have power over life and death.
Many became influential as priests, for dance lends itself to expressing
esoteric concepts that cannot be described by words or static postures.
Dance
embodies the full range of emotions, thus it can reveal the subtle body for
toning up vitality and circulating energy.
The multifarious forms of dance can explicitly or unconsciously convey meaning.
The art of spiritual dance has almost become a thing of the past.
When a dancer, who is spiritual and a yogi, performs a particular item, in
whichever form of classical dance it may be, the song is mostly in praise of
Gods and Goddesses. The dancer has to synchronize the foot, hand, head, neck and
eye movements which are nothing but various yogic
postures, bandhas and mudras, concentrated fully on the meaning
of the song and convey the same through abhinaya
to the audience.
When the mind is set, only on the dance item it becomes one pointed
concentration. The dancer becomes a yogi and the flow of prana through the right
nostril (Pingala Swara) is
experienced. Instructing and inspiring people during
the flow of pingala coincides with attentiveness and enthusiasm from the
listeners. Instructions come across with more dynamism and
influence, when pingala (right nadi) flows rather than ida.
Related Topics:
YKUF's Bharat Natyam Classes
Thandava -
The Dance of Lord Shiva
Dance - Moving
Meditation
Bharatnatyam: Meditation in Motion
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