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BODYMIND, DANCE AND HUMAN POTENTIAL.

All through its history, humanity has created maps or metaphors to represent this potential. Taking into account our work, which is the awakening of these potentialities from the primal end of our being, through a deep organismic conscience, in intimate relation with the body, we could have resorted to an anatomical, physical or biological model. However, we consider that the richest model, due to its evocative and descriptive power, is that of traditional oriental medicine, which we use as an empirical discipline of bodywork, without any religious implications.
Eastern healing arts consider the Universe as a holonomic system of intricately interwoven conscience, energy and matter.
The same principle applies to understanding the human being, which is also considered a system of conscience, energy and matter in continuous interchange with the next system, the environment. This cyclic movement continues until the “Kosmos”. As stated by Wilber this is the name used by the Greeks, before scientific materialism turned it into “cosmos” i.e. mere matter without sense or aim. This Kosmos is in turn a global, conscious and transfinite net that contains it all.
This conscience, expressed as an all-nurturing energy, runs along an enormous net of channels or nadis intertwined in numerous points (as demonstrated by Chinese Medicine). These points constitute energy centers (chakras in Sanskrit), seven of which are located all along the spine.
Surprisingly enough, Occidental medicine has proven that each energy center coincides with a nervous plexus, which at the same time innervates a portion of the body, an internal secreting gland, and a group of organs, muscles, joints and bones. Moreover, each energy center and each part of the body sustains a set of psychosocial functions and spiritual potentialities. We are made up and molecularly renewed by kosmic energies that pass through our bodies. All living forms are nourishing, in one way or another, by the sun.
The aim of Primal Dance, therefore, is to activate and harmonize these energies by working on the energy centers and on the bio-psychosocial and transcendental functions that derive from them, through the integration of music, chants, images and movements.