Layer Name | Location on Body or surroundings | Intention/Exploration | Keywords, guidance | Note about music | Music Resources (Spotify) |
DMM00 (Arrival/Welcome) | Here and now | Create welcoming space and non-judgmental environment | Free-form, follow your body, heartbeat, all invitation based, take care of each others space | Energising and welcoming, easy listening, some emotive songs | DMM00 |
DMM01 (First Gateway 1) | Belly, hips, spine Inhalation - Exhalation | Opening the hips, relaxing the belly, allow feeling of sensuality | hips, release the belly, softening | Soft, sensual | DMM01 |
Insertion: DMM08 Small Dance | Root – 'Ahhh' sound | Explore ability to relax Exhalation, Spine and movement of breath in the spine | |||
DMM02 (Places of Balance) | Heart centre to all direction. | Aligning, balancing the spinal column, visualise the flow of breath from heart centre to all directions | Bring awareness to the root and the crown, crown to root. Finding the heart in between these points and expand from heart centre to all directions | Soft, sensual rhythmic, stable, balancing | DMM02 |
DMM03 (Skeleton Dance 2nd layer) | Skeletal structure | Skeletal structure, Movement of the bones in the body supported by muscles create precise, sharp, decisive shapes | Shaking, releasing, entering into trance state | Rhythmic and progressively building up | DMM03 |
DMM04 (Spinal Wave) | Spine, limbs | Connecting to feeling, sensuality, feminine expressions or spiralling, whirling. Close to small dance layer. | waving, lengthening, stretching, flow of rhythm, sensuality, space, softness, openness, acceptance | Slower, support stretching of the body, wave-like | DMM04 |
DMM05 (Talking Feet) | Feet, the mother earth | Moving, shaking to connect to tribal, earthy energy and ecstatic rhythm of heart beat within and universally encourage feeling of connection, universal heartbeat. | openness, pulsating, connection to source, earth medicine | Tribal, rhythmic drumming, balance, shaking, medicine music | DMM05 |
DMM06 (Body of Release) Or Soft Body Release DMM07A Heart Rhythm | Whole-body, Or Soft Body Release DMM07A Heart Rhythm | Expanding the chest, breath deeper and with ease. Connecting to inner spaciousness, vastness of inner being. | softening, releasing, expanding balance | Releasing, up-lifing, dance, light, joyful | DMM06 |
DMM07B (Heart Expansion) | the space inside the chest | Heart-space. Expanding space in the back of the chest. Connecting to the sacred sound 'Ha...' | Spaciousness, sense of ease, softness | Heart-felt expansion, gratitude, sweet | DMM07B |
DMM08 (Small Dance) | Central column/channel of the spine | Connecting to the flow of awareness in the back of the body, explore the concept of ‘unknown’ stretching the immagination | Boundlessness, expansion, horizon open space, unknown space, connecting to inner space of meditation | Slow, spacious, mysterious, sacred | DMM08 |
DMM09 (Sensitivity Dance) | Five senses, Grounding into the solar plexus, containment of the torso | Awakening the senses, heightening awareness of balance, fluid movement. Calm the nervous system, the heartbeat, heightening awareness of balance, gentle rhythm of movement | Calming breath, clarity, freshness, breathing, balance, grounding back into the physical body with gentleness and welcoming embrace | Sounds of nature, fresh, clear | DMM09 |
DMM10 (Meditation & Rest) | Balanced sitting posture, Breath | Cultivate stillness in renewed alertness / or just relaxed with ease and balance | Encourage sitting up for meditation, balanced poster and breathing awareness | Stable, calm, in the background, slow | DMM10 |
DMM11 (Return to the Circle) | The room, studio space | Rising from deep inner space of meditation into senses awareness | Taking time to wake up/move, inner smile | Uplift, positive, clarity | DMM11 |
The 5 steps Connecting Ritual |
Bliss Ananda DANCEmandala Pathway Summary
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