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GET IN AND GET OUT, OBSERVE AND EMBRACE

In the practice of Primal Dance, we strongly emphasize the need to heal this dissociation, which carries so much suffering, by providing our practitioners with a theoretical as well as a practical background to develop a basic attitude. It is called get in and get out, observe and embrace.
All along the session, we invite the participants to fully get into the experience of each chakra, to dance it fully, to surrender to its influence, to unconditionally accept anything that might appear in the conscience and to express it freely. However, when the music for that chakra is over, we invite people to impartially observe the experience irrespective of its content or intensity, to leave this stage, embrace it and go on to the next chakra.
Some theoreticians or facilitators who strongly identify with either the  male or female principle might find this way of working rather violent.
Romantics will surely say that when a process unfolds, it has to be continued until it finishes.  Following this principle, I have observed people getting into areas of pain, crying for hours, repeating the same experiences over and over, year after year, without any resulting transformation.
Rationalists, on the other hand, will say that being moved is always dangerous in itself, and that seminars should take place without the unfolding of any processes. Since they are afraid and dissociated from their internal dynamics, they see all people as potentially psychotic.
However, when this attitude of getting in and getting out, observing and embracing is the result of a systematic, deliberate process, it provides participants with a deep awareness of the possibility of getting into an experience, living it to its fullest, going through it, learning from it, getting out, embracing it and integrating it into the natural flow of their life as another element of development.
In summary, during our practice, participants get in and out of all kinds of experiences. They passionately live and impartially observe them, without stopping their dance, because life does not stop. This basic attitude, this passionate equanimity as described by Treya Wilber, this dance between Shakti and Shiva, St. Theresa and Buda, Yin and Yang, Mother and Father, mind and heart, Goddess and God, is the fertile land within which the whole transformational power of Primal Dance unfolds.