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AIMS OF PRIMAL DANCE

More than achieving objectives, Primal Dance allows the unfolding of qualities that can be atrophied during our growth. This unfolding has different levels.
On the psychological level, Primal Dance facilitates grounding, contact with reality, the discovery of our own basic genetic and biological identity and the capacity to discriminate and state limits, both, internal and external, both to ourselves and to others.
On the emotional level, it helps to unblock problems in expression and sexuality, diet and stress.
On the affective level, Primal Dance helps to connect to the natural needs of intimacy, contact, warmth, communication and exchange of attention.
On the mental level, it stimulates creativity and intelligence to be able to live life to its fullest.
All this is not reached from a mere conceptual level, but on a molecular one. The paradoxical transformation into what we really are comes from inside of us.
In summary, we can state that by helping us to access our genetic heritage and harmonize our energies, Primal Dance benefits our body and our emotional and relational health. But the ultimate goal of Primal Dance is to open the doors to our essential nature, our true self, our kosmic roots beyond any temporary state. Above all, we do not intend to achieve this by denying life, but actually by accepting our being and the world as they are.

ADVANCED PRACTICE

In the more advanced stages, Primal Dance becomes a real meditation in which we vividly experience the dissolution of the music / dancer duality.  There is a moment during the dance when we stop listening to the music as something alien to us, and we become music. We become manifested universal vibration. Music starts to sound inside us and vice versa. We become the music’s instrument, and it dances inside of us. Then ecstasy is natural consequence.
Here we start to understand the fundamental principle of Primal Dance and to realize that, in Primal Dance as well as in the essential aspects of life, it is not a question of learning but of recognizing what we already know and what we already are.
We remember what the Primal, Original, Tao, is. We realize that the primal is not biological. It is our cosmic essence.
We are stardust before being living beings... we are cosmic vibrations even before being stars... and we are oozing emptyness even before vibration.
Whit this awareness, Primal Dance becomes meditation,  a creativity beyond biological or social conditioning, stereotypes, or mechanisms.
Then, there are no models to repeat, nor steps to follow. “Truth is a land of no roads”, said Krishnamurti. Life is a dance without choreography, we sing.
Here we are ecstatic, we are one with the universal dance ... Nataraj ...and it is here where  Shakti and Shiva …Yin and Yang ... dance inside of us.
When the dualism disappears, it is the music that dances itself through our bodies. It is the universal vibration that listens to itself through the music. It is God-Goddess who finds him-herself in the universal vibration.
By living this transrational experience, the Kosmos itself is complemented in us, free from the dissociating view that only sees loose parts where there is unity, flow and endless harmony. By opening ourselves to this dimension, we do not reach ecstasy, we are ecstasy.
Some years ago, while I was presenting Primal Dance in a congress, a man with a very sad face told me: “... you talk about ecstasy... and etymologically, that means to be out of ourselves ... therefore ... you promote alienation...” I felt compassion for that man, who reflected in his face, the dullness of the state of conscience and the lack of vitality, which are characteristics of our culture. Ecstasy is not alienation; it is not being outside ourselves. Ecstasy is to dance beyond our stereotyped character, our rigid patterns, and our mechanical movements. Ecstasy is, as its meaning suggests, to be outside but not outside our real selves. It is to be outside of the artificial that is in us. We could perfectly talk about “enstasy”.
Paradoxically, to find ourselves, we need to go out, but out of our own noise, our internal agitation, and there is no better way to quiet the mind than getting our body to move.