Thursday, September 27, 2007

RK2 - Breakdancers from Boulder in Brooklyn

sit back and watch the 19 youths from Boulder, CO dance in Brooklyn following their dream of tracing their breakdance lineage.

They had help from Naropa University students in their community based project.

I grabbed this from NU's website Dance/Movement Therapy:

"Dance/movement therapists value the healing nature of the creative act, believe that movement has inner meaning and purpose, and outer expressive and communicative properties, and that body-mind synchronization is an essential component of healing.

Central to the stated purpose of contemplative practice at Naropa University is the belief that contemplative practices synchronize body, speech and heart. As this synchronization occurs, it is said that the practitioner becomes a 'spiritual warrior."

I too believe that if your mind is telling you one thing, and your heart is telling you something else, you are asynchronous and that my friend is a very very painful existence. But since thoughts become things, you can change them to something positive. Imagine living life taking inspired actions and doing meaningful things like these folks do.

I'm not a dancer so I can't speak from there.

But sit back and enjoy. You can watch Obama later! yes yes - he's in NYC tonight.


Maribel