If you want to sing out, sing out

I've begun (re)exploring a long time passion of mine. It's hard to describe, I guess the closest word to it is "dance." I've always liked to move, and dance, and it's one of those things I had mostly abandoned for years. It's weird too, because as I enter a new phase of life, I'm also recovering those things from before the "epoch of responsibilities", which mattered to me, but which had been buried in routines of immediacy. "Sweat your Prayers" resonated with one such passion:

"Each sacred rhythm is a teacher, a gateway to the soul. Flowing holds the feminine mysteries, staccato the masculine. In chaos, the challenge is to integrate these principles into the flow of one's personal energy, to find the magical blend of feminine and masculine energy that makes each person unique. Lyrical is the context of self-realization, the full expression of the soul. And in stillness, the mother of all rhythms, we find the emptiness of the uncluttered mind wherein we contemplate the mystery of it all. Practicing the rhythms frees the body and becomes a way to express the heart and clear the mind."

This is not philosophy or theory, it's alchemy. You physically dance these rhythms to experience archetypes, and recognize their energies in life, and Gabrielle Roth has done a nice job creating the music that taps them. You can explore on your own, for sure, with any piece of music. But consider taking a journey first with a veteran guide, like Gabrielle, and see what is communicated and discovered through the movements of your own body. The Wave is a DVD for a full sensory guide; for strictly audio, but with verbal guidance is Endless Wave. For just the words and ideas: Sweat your Prayers. This is for the adventurers who pass this way upon occasion (oh hai!) You know who you are.

You don't have to be any age or fitness level, dance your own dance. There is no "right" dance. And if *you* don't dance your dance, who will?