My dance became a prayer, a dance with God, and my heart expanded so wide. I was swept […] upon a river of love for God and for this life. It became a sacred dance for me […]. To dance is to know, for our body holds all the secrets and when we move […] we allow those secrets to emerge and come to consciousness. Our deep knowing is formed on the breath and freed as we move and breathe, listen and become present to that which desires expression through us. A hand that glides like a bird and spreads wings to fly. A foot that holds the earth and feels her pulse in the beat of blood. A head that bends to an emotion that arises spontaneously and lets flow the well of tears. A heart that lifts and falls with the wave of music and feels its Soul. To dance is a prayer, not just for God but for our self; for our awakening to our self and all that we can be; the innermost core of self. […] To dance is to be and to become.
Katherine May, School of Movement Medicine, 2008
