What Dancers Say

"(Participating in the) Dances of Universal Peace was an immensely spiritual, touching, intimate, beautiful and privileged experience." P. "DUP is, for me, an opportunity to allow the dances to take me into a different inner space, where the words and melody and movements help me to connect with other cultures and other ways of honouring and worship that by-pass the rational mind ... It is a wonderful, safe way to give and receive love" R. "We danced in a circle that was fluid. It gave each of us space to allow for diversity of movement as well as giving us a safe space in which to nurture our own relationships with each other ... We communicated our prayers and thoughts through our bodies, the silences between chants, through the beat of the drum and strumming of the guitar ... through the soft intake and exhalation of breath, our eyes and hearts. We communicated through words that were sung, chanted and spoken - sometimes softly, sometimes as though we would lift the roof to let the rest of the world in and share our celebrations!" P. "Very quickly in a dance programme, the beauty of the dances and the music helps me to reconnect with Self and, by the end of a programme I can see the Self in everyone in the room. No other practice I know enables this to happen so easily and quickly." D. "(The Dances) went very deep and 'spoke' to me very fully and I came home refreshed and delighted. The chants have been singing to me ever since and I find myself quite unconsciously reaching for movement at the same time. I found your way of teaching very sensitive, quiet and immediate. It's lovely to have a new relationship with my body and find a new place for my feet!" A. "I felt washed with a sense of peace and beauty during and after the dances and this memory has stayed with me." K.