Dancing in the Water, with its fluidity and its mass hypnotic, it is initiate to a journey in the depths of the psyche. It is a synonym of cleansing and purification, and is absolutely necessary for life. She, however, is in itself the paradox of death and destruction by the flood, drowning, crushing. The multiplicity of its forms makes this element rich symbolic meanings : going to meet them, and let us dance in the Water !

Dance to the depths with the Ocean

The ocean is the symbol par excellence of the dive into the abyss of the psyche. We explore such a fish seabed quiet his conscience, crossing landscapes that no adventurer has not yet been mapped. In the midst of the ocean gave rise to the first forms of life, so that we can contact the source of our memories of the psyche. The absolute quiet of the depths invites introspection and contemplation of the currents of his unconscious.

Travel between the worlds with the dance of the River

Under the form of a river, the Water invites us to a more travel between the living world and the beyond. The Nile, Ganges or the Styx are all sacred rivers whose crossing is charged with meaning, and you don't come out unscathed. 

The river speaks to us of flow, flow, movement, flood, and restraint of piping. It represents a vector, a path in which flows the fluidity of life. Dance in the river, it is to listen to the current, it is felt if one gives up or if we try to go back, and observe what follows from these experiences. It is to dare to plunge in and take the risk out transformed by the contact with this water that cleanses and forgives.

Dance in the waters of emotion

Water evokes the crying and the tears, of joy, of anger, of sadness. She called to the expression and experience of emotions. The Fish, in astrology, are the sign master of the emotional feeling and connection to his emotions. The water consists, moreover, 70% of the human : reconnect with nature liquid allows to streamline the circulation of the energies, emotions and thoughts in and of itself, and it facilitates the letting go. The Water element is associated with the sacral chakra, located at the level of the lower abdomen.

How to dance the Water ?

In the body, the movements are fluid and circular, which allow the connection to the Water. Moving her pelvis, the seat of the sacral chakra, in circles and in "eight" refers to the continuous movement of the current. The arms are raised and mimicked the direction and intensity of currents and waves. The Water invites rather slow, in gestures, almost meditative. The spine undulates in the image of the energy flow in the body. The twists are always welcome as they allow exploration of the most comprehensive of its kinésphère, and echoes of his mental space.

With the water comes also a landscape-sensory, poetic. In the visual exploration of shades of blue and green, seaweed undulating and multi-colored fish. And in listening to the silence, whispers of the marine life and the distant echo of the song of the whales.

You've read an excerpt from the memory of Viviane, The power of the symbolic dance-therapy. Viviane teaches at the school Para La Salsa and was formed via the method Per Se Nota. You can find it on his account Instagram : @dance.with.the.fire

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The dance of the Earth evokes the report to the soil and to anchor. Explore this element that connects us to the roots, to the interiority reassuring and fertility and Mother Earth.

Dance to the Earth, to meet its roots 

Look at our roots. The consciousness is directed to the feet and the contact with the ground. The root softens the notion of contact with the depths, because his role is going to look deep into the soil to bring them back to the trunk and leaves of the nutrients necessary for the development. It is a virtuous circle. She also invites to the perception of the ground as a safe space and allowing any time to return to the anchor and the concrete. 

A session of dance therapy can be dizzying : it is therefore essential to propose key to return to the material for the students. The physical contact with the soil is a part of these safety devices. Moreover, to stimulate the touch through the thematic of the Earth promotes the feeling of anchor. Automassage, for example, allows you to play with the body as with a material that is malleable, clay, or clay. We brought a report playful touch.

Find a space of security and fertility in its Cave, inner

Down in the depths with the roots, it progressively comes into contact with the Cave, the protected area of our essence. The Cave is the place of intimacy, the secret place in which you take refuge and guarantees the security. The awareness session allows you to return at any time, if the experience is too intense or simply because one is tired. We may, in independence, retire in our space of homeland security if you feel the need. In the Cave sleeps also the Bear, the defender inside of our integrity.

In the Cave are also all the seeds of our resources, waiting to be planted and watered to germinate. We put ourselves in contact with our tools, our strengths and our dreams. We can thus initiate from the Cave to a dynamic ascent to break through the surface of the earth and unfold to the world. The Earth is a symbol of fertility, abundance and luxuriance : the contact between the depths and the outside world is permanent.

How to embody the dance of the Earth ?

At the body level, the energy is concentrated in the feet. There is an awareness on the body weight and the effect of gravity by movements of swinging. The legs are bent, the muscles of the thighs engaged. The upper body is relaxed, relaxed. The head follows the movement of the pendulum with the release of the nape of the neck. One hand close to the ground, and it brought up the energy from the soles of the feet to the legs, and then in the pelvis, spine, shoulder and arm to the tip of your fingers, until finally the root of the hair. The body deploys such a plant and just connect to the sky, to the sun, to the light. Because the plant derives its nutrients from the soil, but also in the light of the sun ! 

The Earth is, finally, an Element reminiscent of many images scent : the smell of the earth returned, of cut grass or the smell of flowers. It connects us to the proliferation of life and a feeling of abundance. It is an energy of quiet strength, deployment, powerful and confident, self-confidence and in its inner resources.

You've read an excerpt from the memory of Viviane, The power of the symbolic dance-therapy. Viviane teaches at the school Para La Salsa and was formed via the method Per Se Nota. You can find it on his account Instagram : @dance.with.the.fire

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The Fire brings both the light and the dark. It will warm up, but burns also. It destroys and thus allows the renaissance. Go to the discovery of this Element fascinating !

Fire is a force of life

As a source of light and heat, the Fire is intrinsically linked to the life and joy. It symbolizes the creative power, action and clarity of thought.

The Fire gathers people together in a circle around him. We dance round around the fire to celebrate the light, in the summer and abundance. Is associated with warm colors (red, orange, yellow), it can evoke the joy communicative – one also speaks of the "fire of joy" – the warmth of human relationships and a willingness to act overflowing. 

Fire is the Element associated with the chakra of the plexus in the stomach, as the seat of the will, the confidence and radiance to the world. Summon the Fire, it is call its own life force, and its " inner flame ". In short, what moves and gives energy, its ability to reach and influence the world.

Between shadow and light

When you see the shadows of things distorted by the light of the fire, we can distinguish, without harm to the scary creatures trained in a wild dance, or moving silhouettes in the corners of darkness. This is why the Fire is also – and rightly so – is associated with the danger, destruction and the Underworld (especially in the christian religion). It carbonizes, reduced to ashes, to transform the raw material into nothingness.

The fire helps to understand that each person is made up of light and shadow, strengths and weaknesses, virtues and defects. The one is always the reverse of the other. And the work of appropriation of its light passes through one of his shadows. It is an Element that take the drama out of failure, the ugly and sterile and gives it its place in the balance of the world and his own inner balance.

Fire is dangerous

Myths and legends demonize the use of Fire as it is a versatile tool to the destructive potential of disproportionate : it is often the vector of anger, vengeance of the gods. We think for example of the wrath of Zeus or the indian goddess Kali in the red tongue. Embodying the element of Fire, it is appropriate that anger devastating, divine and sacred. It recreates the justice in his inner world but also to the outside, in his relationships and his relationship to the environment.

The Fire is also the dynamic of seduction. The imaginary of the femme fatale – and, by extension, the witch, we will see it all the time – revolves around the vocabulary of fire : woman sulfurous, flames of passion, burning with the kiss... The Fire in my view, is a metaphor very powerful power that can be found in the women... as long as they dare reveal themselves to be witches, and dangerous to the face of the world.

The Fire has the power to transform

Finally, there is the Element of transformation and transmutation, " the basis of most magics, ancient ". On a psychic level, it refers to the possibility and even the interest to destroy in order to recreate it. It offers the destruction of a saving virtue, the prospect of a revival in a self-purified, stronger and closer to its essence. The smiths work the metal until you get the blade the more pure and strong. Thus was reborn the Phoenix from its ashes, in a perpetual cycle of life and death. Fire embodies the impermanence and the ability to change your state. By its volatility, we understand that it can pass through the states of anger and fury intense, and come out unscathed – even out short.

How to dance this Item ?

The whole body is involved in the dance of fire, each member representing a flame to the own life.

The movements may be small, oscillating and trembling in the dance of the spark plug, or loose, loose and erratic in the dance of the blaze.

The hair, each strand like a flame, have their place and connect in addition to the archetype of the femme fatale burning and dangerous.

The energy part of the belly, as the washing of the heart of a volcano, and diffuses into all parts of the body, as well as a bit of a firecracker. It arises fingers and exceeds the physical body in bouquets of sparks.

The fire lets you toggle slow motion and fast, fluid and jerky, mimicking the unpredictability of the blaze. It is a dance of chaos, liberating and purifying, in a state of perpetual expansion and contraction.

You've read an excerpt from the memory of Viviane, The power of the symbolic dance-therapy. Viviane teaches at the school Para La Salsa and was formed via the method Per Se Nota. You can find it on his account Instagram : @dance.with.the.fire

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The archetype of the wild Woman carries with him a liberating power. Incarnate in his life is a true way of universal healing.

What archetypes for female ?

Beyond advertising, sociology, literature, or art, feminine archetypes that are found most frequently are the triptych "maiden-mother-crone" (the maiden, mother and crone). 

We can see at first a breakdown of the lives of women from the one function of reproduction. However, the archetype of the "mother" cannot be reduced to the birth and maternity. It symbolizes more broadly, the strength of the intellectual or artistic creation. 

While the company invisibilise the older women, and considers the menopause on the registry of the degeneration, of the deficiency, the crone is in the sacred Feminine is represented in a highly positive. The idea is that by walking in age, the women know each other better, to acquire wisdom and freedom. Inspired by the vision that they have of the Ancient indigenous communities (including native american), women who participate in networks on the sacred feminine perceive that old age is conducive to taking a new role in the community : the transmission. 

Thus, far from reducing women to their potential role as a mother, the archetypes of the sacred Feminine resources offer to symbolize stages in the life cycle or facets of existence. In addition to this trio, there are many other archetypes : Greek goddesses, celtic, germanic, the figure of the witch, the healer, the Amazon, the romantic, the warrior, the shaman, etc  

The Woman is wild, a healing collective

The figure that we are interested in here is the archetype of The Wild Woman. It is rooted not in any of the temporality of the life of the woman. It lasts well beyond the ages and generations since the dawn of time... It is also an invitation to reflect on the systemic issues of sexist oppression on women and nature, and take action to change the world. Some see it as a mobilization and a change in the way of being in the world (labelled “ecofeminist”). I prefer to see it a momentum instinctive universal in the wild, much more entrenched and powerful than any label policy. 

It seems to me crucial that this state of being of the Wild Woman could exist and persist freely without be altered / manipulated for political-social. It is in this respect that the Figure of the Woman is in my opinion the guardian of his legacy, his line of Women, and of the transmission that it was able to operate and has carried over into the future...

Appropriating the wild Woman

However the woman to a status of “wild” disturbs and disrupts the morals of the way full. The book The wild woman Michel Gardère is in support of this finding in the cradle literary, which contributes to the foundation of our culture. This book tells the incredible story (true) of a naked woman regained power in the middle bears a great summer of 1807. In the Pyrenees ariégeoises, two hunters spot and stalk this woman, naked, with a teddy bear. Captured, howling like a demented, it will now be called “the chatter of the Montcalm”. The first approach to this surprising meeting is to take him to the priest of the village. The unknown speaks in these words : "Robespierre killed my family" , and escapes into the night. She will spend two more years in the mountains before being taken up and thrown into prison in Foix to die shortly after. 

Who was she? How was she able to survive ? Is she really dead in prison as he was told ? Why the fearsome Fouche, minister of Police of Napoleon, was interested-there so much of it ? And for whatever strange reasons, the prefect of the Ariège tried to save it ? An extraordinary human adventure as this novel comes to explore. 

Today in 2022, our company would have raised this woman and hosted the wild differently than in 1807 ? If yes how ? With what tools ? More broadly, what is it today of the individual and collective consciousness of the savage in us ?

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