I took a journey, deep into the Amazon jungle near a city called Iquitos, Peru to study holistic plant healing. This region of the Amazon is renowned for its medicinal plant remedies. The indigenous believe that the plants themselves have spirits that can guide an individual on their inner journey towards health and awareness.
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I had the recent opportunity of working at a social project in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in the bohemian neighborhood of Santa Teresa. Santa Teresa is located on a hill overlooking the city of Rio and is about halfway up to the beautiful Corcovado Cristo statue.
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"We inherited the earth untouched in perfection, rising sun, falling rain, mountains and trees stand in glory, together we have lived so, always in harmony with our environment, in flux with the forces that shape this reality, the great spirit resonates within us ( Gaia II, Song of the Vanishing Tribe)." The voices of nature speak to those who listen, the natural harmony of all life can be found with us, as we move and live in rhythm with the voices of the earth; the rivers, the fields, forests, oceans, cycles of seasons and all the diverse species that share this beautiful space we call home.
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The "Chalice and the Blade" is a book written by Riane Eisler that analyzes the modern culture of a androcratic dominator society, being traditionally patriarchal while proposing a change to a gylanic parternship society inspired by the history of the ancient Goddess worshiping cultures. The book is an illuminating description of the current social and relationship dynamics existing in our world, the evolutionary path and potential futures. It describes the two symbolic energies of the chalice and blade, representing; feminine and masculine, partnership and dominator social structures.
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As the population of the earth increases, the need for sustainable living is increasingly imperative. The resources of fresh water, agricultural land, forest, jungle and wildlife are all decreasing. As this planet changes we must adapt our use of these resources to what is available, local, organic and non-pollutive to the environment. An integral aspect of living consciously is to find a rhythm harmonious to the natural environment.
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"The dancer of the future will be one whose body and soul have grown so harmoniously together that the natural language of that soul will have become the movement of the body. The dancer will not belong to a nation but to all humanity." ~ Isadora Duncan
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In June of this year I traveled to Cairo, Egypt for the Ahlan Wa Sahlan belly dance festival situated in a Turkish hunting lodge at the foot of the ancient pyramids in Giza.
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The definition of exoticism is; of being foreign, striking, unusual in design and color or unusual and unfamiliar. The word exotic has a controversial and often ambiguous history. That which is exotic or considered foreign and unfamiliar is a matter of cultural perspective, and changes based on ones own experience and standpoint. Exotic is something, because of its changing ambiguous nature that can easily create judgements of good and bad, better or worse, lower and higher. This world and life is made up of individuals, and as all is unique, diversity is a natural element of life.
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When the spirit comes to know itself, we will be free" was one of the principal beliefs behind the romantic spirit. Romanticism was a philosophical and artistic movement beginning in the late 18th century, spreading from France, throughout Europe and the Occidental world. Romanticism believed in the subjectivity of the individual experience, the beauty of vulnerability and all emotions thereby allowing a full acceptance of all that is human.
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Colors of the Rain
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I recently made a pilgrimage to the source of Afro-cuban dance to study both the rhythmic patterns of the percussion and the dance itself. La Habana in many ways reminded me of why I dance, for what and for who.
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I traveled to Nigeria and Benin to research on a women's art project, but also to study the Yoruba and Voudoun spiritualities that I had been exposed to through Afro-Cuban, Haitian and Afro-Brazilian dance. These spiritualities encompass many aspects of spirit, including earth, sky, spirit, ancestors, and art. They are ancient religions from Eastern Africa, that perhaps are connected with some of the beliefs of Ancient Egypt. Within these beliefs there are many spirits and deities. A large aspect of the religions is ritual singing and dancing in which many of the spirits are channelled.
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Through the creation of folkloric art, knowledge and symbols from ancient traditions are passed on to future generations. The cycle of life symbol in the Yoruba batik tradition is painted onto fabrics as it symbolizes the cyclical process of birth, creation and death. The fabrics are dyed using the indigo leaf that symbolizes an organic cure and that is also seen as the color of love.
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Some days its been just me and the ocean. and she kept me alive. How does one express love for something so inmense? I see only the surface but I beleive she has fed me from her depths. But couldnt even the smallest wave have also touched the ocean floor? an everchanging uniformity She is beautiful all over. A churning frothy womb Water not to hydrate but to clean, nurture, regenerate. She keeps a rythm She knows gravity She knows the moon She knows death and change and she is ceaseless as long as there is life she will be there. Great mother how many have forgotten you? What does it mean to forget where you come from? What fed you, what made you, what nurtured you and nurtures you still... A love that never gives up, for it is her essence to be mother. What is a world that forgets the mother? That destroys her. Is it her numinosity that scares people? The way that she cant be contained. The way she gives her love freely, continously spreading, unfolding, remaking Yemanja is free but she has her shores... But I think that expansive freedom is her secret thats how she manadges to recycle life. her salty vitality. Something so powerful yet at the same time so fluid, movable vulnerable to every element~ Can one find ones reflection in her changing waters, the most ancient memory behind this veil of time true origins, true mother, beautiful, bountiful eternal mercy reminding me of love~
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Life moves in cycles like the ocean, in circular patterns, waves of existence as our soul is reborn again and again into this life. Like the ocean existence is not linear, our soul grows as we expand into new contexts carrying memories and repeating cycles of energetic patterns until we achieve enough awareness to move on to new realms of existence.
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The Goddess is the uniting aspect of the female principle, she is the essence of the female territory that lives in all of our physches. She is oceans, and rivers, and fields and nurturing intuition in nature, humans and all elements. She is the body, the receptive that takes in, transforms, recycles and creates.
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Sacred Sexuality is a dream of love, a hope that there might exist paradise in the free expression of our love. Sexuality is the force behind all creation on earth as it is through sexual union that new life is created. Sexuality is sacred as all life on earth is born through sexual union opening us to our creative powers as natural human beings on this beautiful earth.
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Salvador de Bahia, Brazil is one of the original slave ports on the Eastern Brazilian coast and a diverse fusion of cultures including; African, Indigenous and Portuguese. Salvador has the largest population of African immigrants and still much of the East African culture has been preserved from across the ocean. The Africans arrived as slaves but brought with them much of their music, dance, stories and spiritualities.
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There are many myths of the earth as it moves in cycles of awareness, legends of ages before this present one. The myths are of before this cycle; of Celtic tribes, Precumbian civilizations, Ancient Egypt, Atlantis, Yorubaland, the Garden of Eden and before. Times that existed, but perhaps in other ways of being, seeing and experiencing, of other realms, dimensions and realities.
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Witch craft has been associated with the old pagan Earth worshiping religions, with female deities, wise woman, medicine women, natural healing, insight, childbirth, oracles and wisdom. Magic essentially is a gift from Mother Earth to be used for healing and creative purposes. The Inquisition of witches began based on this mistrust of Goddess and Earth worshipping societies and the power that women traditionally held within these cultures. The Malleus Malleficarum, also known as the hammer of the witches, was a book written in 1486 by two German monks representing the Dominican Christian Order as a handbook for the persecution and burning of witches.
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"I found God in myself and I loved her fiercely" Ntosake Shange has written evoking the perseverance, adaptive and resilient strength of the archetypal Wild Woman. The Lady of the Wild Things becomes the freedom to follow the rules of the heart, of nature and the universe.
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Once upon a time there was a young woman who loved to run through the fields, go swimming in the streams nearby, listen to the birds, wake up early to watch the sunrise, and at night lie under the stars and dream about traveling to distant lands and someday falling in love... She would talk to the moon, asking for all her wishes to come true * And the moon listened.
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