| p>A question we can ask ourselves is, how can we | | | | Each element is a doorway - an opening into this |
| become fully embodied, living a life of passion, heart, | | | | divine creation. Your body and this earth are one and |
| abundance and service - honouring ourselves, others | | | | the same creation! Both are 'holy' or 'whole'. Your job |
| and the planet on which we live? | | | | is to get here fully, into this dimension, and become a |
| Embodiment is the ability to live these things fully. It | | | | true co-creator with Life or the Life-force energy. |
| is about 'walking the talk'. Being a full human being | | | | This is the true divine marriage of heaven and earth. |
| who is able to create and participate in life, bringing | | | | Jesus Christ said; When you make the two one, And |
| the gifts of the spirit, through the mind, into the | | | | when you make the inside like the outside, And the |
| heart and out into our daily lives. | | | | outside like the inside, 'And the above like the below', |
| So much of life these days is about leaving the body. | | | | And when you make the male and female 'One and |
| By this, I mean disconnection with it, a contraction | | | | the same Then will you enter the kingdom of |
| away from it, a numbing experience. We leave it | | | | heaven.'(The Nag Hammad's Library) |
| permanently through death and we leave it often, | | | | The two are the Masculine Principle (Yang, Sky, Spirit) |
| only to return later, through sickness, all forms of | | | | and the Feminine Principle (Yin, Earth, Body). The |
| pain and suffering, substance abuse and addictions of | | | | secret lies here, not in our minds, which are only |
| all kinds. 'Leaving', puts us in a position of being unable | | | | tools, given to us to show us what we are creating. |
| to fully participate in life. Not being in life, we struggle | | | | We are always in the flow of Life, but when we live |
| and suffer, and the very opportunities (that surround | | | | our lives through the mind, even though we are not |
| us ever moment of the day), that would help us to | | | | really separate from life, we experience ourselves as |
| move through the difficulties we face, elude us. We | | | | separate and disconnected from the source. Its like |
| feel lost and alone, alienated from life, from people | | | | walking along the bank of the river, with your feet |
| and from our connection to a spiritual source. | | | | paddling in the shallows, as opposed to floating on |
| It's little wonder our lives are a struggle. In many | | | | your back in the middle of the river and being carried |
| ways we have not yet arrived. We have not truly | | | | along by the flow. Walking in the shallows, you are in |
| entered and do not know the great stream of Life, | | | | charge, and you're the one who has to confront how |
| that we are a part of. We stay in our minds, which | | | | to move along the shore-line. Stepping over big |
| are really a world of illusion and unreality, living a life | | | | rocks, avoiding holes, etc. it is up to you to save |
| separate to the life that call us, surrounds us and that | | | | yourself, your feet and hands get cut and bruised, |
| we are always a part of, yet not partaking of. | | | | there is not much to help you. Floating in the river, |
| We think the world we live in (the one our minds | | | | however, something else carries you along, you are |
| have created) is the 'real' world. No, there is another | | | | surrounded by this, and even though you face some |
| world, a far greater one, our true home, and one | | | | difficulties (rapids, whirlpools, etc), you are ok. You |
| which we are a part of, though we find this difficult | | | | have surrendered to something greater than |
| to believe in and acknowledge. | | | | yourself, and this carries you through. |
| We are the watcher, the unseen being, still and quiet, | | | | Living in the world, which we have created through |
| looking out through our eyes. The mind is the filter | | | | our minds, we live our lives separate from the source |
| through which we see the world. However, we think | | | | and our bodies, for they are one and the same. We |
| WE are the mind. (It's the part that says I. I think, I | | | | do everything to separate and distance ourselves |
| feel, I am etc). But we are not the mind. We are | | | | from what we think is the source of our pain and |
| something far greater than what we have created in | | | | suffering - this physical existence- but, this way of |
| order to experience life. We are a speck of light in | | | | thinking, is backwards. The physical aspect of our |
| the great ocean of consciousness, part of the | | | | existence is no more the cause of our pain and |
| oneness of all creation. Totally divine in nature. | | | | suffering, than the child being responsible, for causing |
| Always pure, never changing. | | | | her mother's pain at birth. Birth is a difficult |
| Our planet, the Great Mother Earth is the birthplace | | | | experience for mother and child. Any resistance to |
| of life in this dimension. She is a glorious creation - the | | | | the process, from any party, in any form, will result in |
| result of spirit bursting forth and becoming physical. | | | | physical pain as the body responds by tightening and |
| She is our mother, the doorway to our physical | | | | contracting away from the flow of the life-energy |
| existence. She is magnificent, glorious and divine. | | | | carrying it. |
| Giving all of creation an opportunity to know itself | | | | Wu Tao is about getting you here. Into your body, |
| physically and experience our ability to create, create | | | | and onto the planet fully. Experiencing wholeness and |
| and create! More magnificence, more beauty, more | | | | having the ability to flow with life from this |
| aspects of the divine essence of which we are a | | | | wholeness. Where you are the divine marriage of |
| part. | | | | body and spirit, and know this to be so. |
| But, if the mind is the tool of our divine Self - the | | | | Wu Tao is not about struggling or trying to be |
| creative power through which we work, then the life | | | | anything, it is about surrendering to what you already |
| we have created for ourselves is the very same that | | | | are. A letting go into beingness, and being this, in your |
| lives in our minds. This life is a dim reflection of the | | | | whole being! Your body, mind and spirit as One, which |
| spirit which lives in us, for we are far greater than | | | | is your Divine Self and one with all Life. |
| the world our mind chooses to see and experience. | | | | In Wu Tao Dance we use the body as an opening |
| The mind believes in separation. It believes in us and | | | | into this place. A doorway into the truth of your Self. |
| them, good and bad, love and hate, war and peace. | | | | We use it, because through it, we can override the |
| In our world, the mind rules the show. Our spirit, our | | | | mind, which is the part that has been the dominant |
| true Selves, sit dormant and quiet, watching the | | | | part of our beings for some time. The mind is no |
| unfoldment through our eyes. But what if we know | | | | better or worse than the body or spirit, rather, it is a |
| ourselves as spirit? What is we were to just let | | | | balance that is required, for healing to occur. |
| ourselves fall out of our minds, out of thought, into | | | | There was something formless and perfect |
| our Selves behind our eyes and live our lives from | | | | Before the universe was born. |
| here? What then? | | | | It is serene. Empty |
| When we do this, we are home. Home in our Selves. | | | | Solitary. Unchanging. |
| Rather than having the occasional blinding flash of | | | | Infinite. Eternally present. |
| intuition or guidance from 'out there', we experience | | | | It is the mother of the universe. |
| our Selves as a never-ending source of wisdom and | | | | For lack of a better name I call it the Tao. |
| creation. When we are with our Selves, we are in the | | | | It flows through all things, |
| flow of Life, always growing, creating, transforming | | | | Inside and outside, and returns |
| and changing. This is life as it can be experienced. Not | | | | To the origin of all things Lao-Tzu |
| should, but could. Wouldn't you rather live your life | | | | It has been written that the Tao is the primordial |
| from this place? | | | | force - the universal mother. Moving with it, we are |
| So how can we get there from here? How can we | | | | forever in life's flow, propelled and held by the very |
| come home to our Selves? There are many ways. | | | | force which has shaped us and given us life. Within |
| Wu Tao is one way. If the Great Mother Earth is our | | | | the Tao are the two. Yin and Yang, Male and Female, |
| birthmother, then through her, we can come to | | | | action and stillness, doing and being. Following the |
| know our Selves. We must become and take on | | | | Tao, we flow with the tides of life, sometimes |
| physical form fully. What elements make up this | | | | ebbing, sometimes flowing, in and out. |
| dimension? The elements of Air, Water, Wood and | | | | So it is in the Wu Tao dances. Some flow in, they |
| Fire. Together, these elements make up the | | | | are still and slow. Others flow out, with dynamic |
| elements of Earth and all that is needed for the | | | | action and movement. All contain both aspects. There |
| physical dimension. | | | | is always a little yin in yang and a little yang in yin. |