Peace starts within each of us.
Many peaceful people create a peaceful community.
Conflicts are resolved by transforming oppositions into harmonies.
Diversities are celebrated through dancing and chanting that enrich and connect us all.
Dance for Peace is based on the following principles:
- Peaceful people create social and political peace. For people to live in peace with each other, they need to be at peace with themselves.
- Passion cannot be stopped, but it can be transformed. The cycle of violence->pain->anger->violence can be altered if horror and rage have alternative outlets.
- Hurting others is driven by separation. A direct heart-to-heart experience, seeing ourselves in others and realizing that we’re all part of a beautiful and rich humanity, dissolves the motivation to act against others and inspires harmonious living.
Dance for Peace creates a container where each person finds their own peace, not by suppressing their difficult emotions but by celebrating them through creative and healing outlets: Dancing, conscious breathing, chanting, drumming, hugging, laughing, and crying. Being in this process with others, seeing their own humanity, feeling and identifying with their own dramas, brings deep compassion to each other, seeing their journeys as our own, and a natural desire to let them celebrate their passion and fulfill their aspirations.
Tribal Dance
We connect with our inner tribal warriors and dance our emotional wars.
Our fangs release their venom into the fire, and our sting does not harm another.
Our Differences
Let our differences stretch a wide dance floor.
Let our individual hues sprinkle a rich carnival of colorful arrays.
Our unique passions manifest in motions and tones like no other.
We create a symphony of dancing and chanting and then merge
into a carpet of alive, breathing, loving humans.
Open Heart
Open our hearts to our own beauty.
Witness with awe the amazing Life around us,
and let ourselves merge with the beauty of Creation.
Arms are For Hugging
Arms are for Hugging.
Feet are for Dancing.
Mouths are for Kissing,
Breathing and Singing.
Dance For Peace
Embrace peace amidst violence.
Shine your light onto the darkness.
Witness fear with compassion.
Soothe the pain with loving kindness.
Every one of us
is a gorgeous expression of creation.
We all want to love and be loved,
be healthy, happy and fulfilled.
Hi brother, you’re just like me.
Hi sister, we are all in this together.
Loving when you’re loved is ideal.
Loving facing anger and fear is mastery.
~PassionHeart