Astiko

The fire of presence
The primary movement of breath
Relaxation of the solar plexus to create choice between control and abandonment,giving and taking,
living and dying.

Awareness of the energy body
Locating your energetic boundaries
Expanding and contracting your energy body

 
Merging and separating,
The response of the emotional body in relationship to this energetic movements:
Fear of abandonment, fear of invasion,
bliss in melting, bliss in aloneness.

Shiva and Shakti: relationship between energy and consciousness
Creating an energetic circuit with the partner
Mantaining energetic contact and flow
Energetic embrace

The relationship between pelvis and heart:  passion and compassion
Embracing and welcoming all energies, loving what is and bringing it into the dance.
The lover within
Nataraja, the dancer dissapears, only the dance remains!


5 years ago she danced contact for the first time and in a total state of presence and surrender to the point of contact where the bodies meet she experienced once again the free flow of endless universal energy passing through.

"In that atomic and  endlessly ongoing instant where there is no purpose, no expectation whatsoever but a tremendous surrender of your consciousness to the point of contact, your personality, your mind dissapears and you become a channel for pure energy, pure love to flow.  
Contact in itself expands consciousness because as you touch and get touched you dissolve your boundaries and become one with the other. The quality of this oneness depends on how free your mind is of any content, on how relaxed and permeable your energetic boundaries are. The freer you are of any expectation, of any fear of the ultimate intimacy which is two bodies melting in consciousness, the more extatic is the dance. With intimacy we often think about the sexual aspect of the meeting and use our barriers to avoid getting sexual or sensual and in this very avoidance we contract and loose expanded consciousness, or on the contrary we desire that aspect and this very desire also contracts us and stands in the way of real melting." This is were the understanding of tantra can carry the dancer to dissapear in the dance where consciousness and energy become one, as man and woman, as darkness and light."