From the book,
"Healing Your Grieving Soul,
100 Spiritual Practices For Mourners"
by Alan D. Wolfelt, PH.D.

100.
DANCE THROUGH GRIEF INTO LIFE

*Dance has been described as a metaphor for life. In the midst of grief, dance can be a lovely way to transform your grief (your internal response) into mourning (the shared outward response). Dance invites you to merge with the music and the movement even as it takes you outside of yourself.

*Constanze referred to dancing as dreaming with your feel. Sweetpea Tyler claimed it faces you toward heaven, whichever direction you turn. Havelock Ellis described it as life itself. Martha Graham called it the hidden language of the soul.


*Dance is more than an aerobic physical activity. It is a complete mind, body, and spirit workout and it is fun! Many forms of dance are forms of moving mediation. The blend of physical, emotional and spiritual concentration invite both surrender and renewal, while at the same time transporting you into a spiritual realm of wholeness and connection to the world outside of yourself. Yes, there is magic in dance.

Dance can transform you in ways that re-awaken your Divine spark---"that which gives life meaning and purpose." Movement allows your body to heal, your mind to open, and your spirit to sing. Dance also engages you in community because you enter into a partnership that is greater than the sum of it's parts. You discover that you are in constant, ever-flowing exchange with yourself, each other and the Divine.