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5 Scholarship Opportunities for Dancers

Great Scholarship For High School Dancers

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5 Scholarship Opportunities for Dancers

Great Scholarship For High School Dancers

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5 Scholarship Opportunities for Dancers

Great Scholarship For High School Dancers

]]> http://www.dancebloggers.com/2010/07/5-scholarship-opportunities-for-dancers-3/feed/ 0 I’m a Believer http://www.dancebloggers.com/2010/07/im-a-believer/ http://www.dancebloggers.com/2010/07/im-a-believer/#comments Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:00:00 +0000 pinkyogi@gmail.com (Christine Claire Reed) tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/713add5a8f225051

Svasti and Marcy were both trying to help me to see something very vital about myself.

I was lost in the literal and the concrete, in psychological texts and concepts. This is all very helpful, but there is more to me than this brain. There is something much more powerful that resides in my heart: My Believer-Self.

Svasti kept reminding me that there is always a pre-trauma self, even if the trauma starts at birth because we are an eternal soul. (I am paraphrasing and putting her ideas into my own language here.) But I kept arguing practicalities with her; I kept insisting on thinking only on this concrete plane, forgetting it is an illusion, it is all temporary, fleeting.

Marcy sat me on the couch during all of this and asked me to think about where and when I have felt safe.

I spoke of my Great Aunt Ardelle, who so clearly saw me. To the point that I have memories of her and I together and we are literally surrounded by sparks of light. I remember those sparks of light as being physically present when I was with her.

I spoke of my time in Catholic school for a year and a half. A time when those nuns and teachers made me feel so safe that I was completely myself in that building. I had never and would never again be so creative in so many ways.

Through these memories there is a common thread for me (which would take too long to explain): the presence of Mary, a safe and loving mother figure.

Marcy said to me on that couch, "You are a believer. That is who you are. You can't not be that. It hurts you."

Yes.

Yes.

I had not been spending any time in prayer and meditation with Mary, thinking I had outgrown her somehow.

Not.

Svasti with her yogic wisdom and Marcy with her clear eyes of love reminded me that I do believe there is an essential self that I can re-member that existed even before this incarnation, this manifestation.

A Pre-Trauma Self of the Highest Order...and yes, she is Dancer and always will be.

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National Take a Walk in the Park Day 2010

Celebrating National Dance Week – NYC through Social Media for Dance Studios

Announcement: National Dance Theatre of Jamaica Performs at the Brook

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Lost and found at Danspace

Danspace Project Honors Philip Glass

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Entrycall 2010: will award € 7500,- and € 2000,- for the winning filmmakers of dancescreen 2010 at Cinedans.

DANCE FOR THE CAMERA 2010

Make Your Voice Heard! Voting for Step It Up 2010 is Now Open

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At one point over the last many days, I was feeling especially...negative about the possibility of healing, even in light of the new, more accurate, and more hopeful diagnosis of Complex-PTSD. I wrote about feeling frustrated about the concept of a pre-trauma self.

Svasti and I had some interesting back and forth in the comments of that post, if you've not seen it. I was getting additionally frustrated with her take* on it, feeling very stuck in my "what if I can't heal?" panic.

(*Svasti knows she is someone whom I greatly admire. She is one of the kindest, wisest bloggers out there, so don't mistake my frustration for anything about her!)

During all of that, a facebook email came to me from a yoga sutras group, and it reinforced what others were trying to help me to see.

This particular sutra is the Light that dispels all sorrow. It's about yoga and how it connects us to our essential, bigger-than-this-life selves.

You can replace "yoga" with whatever you big bliss is, and for me, of course, that would be dance.

When the email came, just like Svasti's comments, I wasn't ready for it, but I knew it was important because I starred it and kept it in my inbox. I kept opening it and reading it.

Finally, I opened it, read it, and smiled.

The smile came thanks to something really vital I re-membered about myself late last week and which I will write about tomorrow.

What in your life dispels the darkness when it descends?

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FALL FOR DANCE 2010 SCHEDULE

New York City is not the center of the (dance) world

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