(planetary dance)

Prehistory

Many years I studied and worked on different concepts for relaxation, self finding, illumination, transcendence or however you will call it.

In my opinion their common ground is their understanding that it is fundamental to stop the constant inner dialog and thus to increase the state of relaxation and consciousness.

I realized during the passing years that the today’s concepts - which often come from the other side of the earth – don’t give much good to me. Over the years I received a lot of stimulus but I could not build up a really deep connection.

I think that they were strange to me because these concepts were created in different times with different demands compared with today. For that reason it is so difficult for us to understand and use them in their original form.

Today I have the deep sensation that everybody has to go his own way and that the really important things of life are very simple. They are more related with the practice in daily life rather than with complex and abstract philosophical constructs which need complex physical and mental training and in my opinion only veil the truths of life.

As the truth is so simple we are not able to capture it due to our habit to complicate everything.

My starting-point

1. An apparently never ending flow of words passes through my head. - tasks, - past, - cooking, - shopping, - what will be, if..., - today I have to..., - don’t forget to...

Some call it the inner dialog. In Sufism they call it the old scoundrel. (free translation)

Are these my own words and thoughts or do they come from outside?

It doesn’t really matter to me. Philosophers, teachers of wisdom and illuminated should worry about this. I only want to be able

TO STOP IT.

And to achieve this, if possible, in a nice and effective way.

2. I sit at my desk, in my car, in front of my computer, at work – whatever you want. I feel my body and it feels uncomfortable because I move too less and deep inside me I hear the voice of my body: “Do something for me and you will feel better in general.”

I ignore it – with subliminal discomfort, but I am so used to it that I remember only faintly how flexible and agile my body was and should be. This subliminal discomfort is here, I feel my body’s pleading for his right and I know that I should do something.

3. When I was young I danced and it did me good. I don’t know when and why it stopped. When I got married, when I worked so much, when I got children, when...when...when...

4. If I am honest with myself I feel that in my body and in my head (mind, reason, memory etc.) there are lots of blockades, traumas from which I don’t want to know anything, I dare to go near them or I am simply not conscious of them.

There is almost nobody who hasn’t been hurt in his life physically or emotionally. Some more and other less. A sign of self responsibility is working on it – now – because only YOU can do it. Therefore – stand up – free yourself and find back to yourself.

My dream ...

was it to find something that is capable to work simultaneously on all above mentioned points and further on without lots of babbling and of course it should and must be fun.

Oh, another thing!

What I found out for myself and what I want to turn out as an important point is the fact that our natural independent development of fundamental processes like running, dancing etc. were inhibited or limited through instructions of thirds (parents, teachers etc.) telling you “how to do it right”.

All these essential processes which only can be developed individually – through practice – without big interventions – are explicated to us from certain age and we lose fun to continue or feel incapable.

Consequently this dance knows few limiting instructions because its objects are

· that you find your way back to your own natural movements.

· that you learn to liberate unused potentials.

· that you get a better consciousness of your body.

· that you find more inner silence and clarity.

· that you can feel yourself as a part of the whole being.

How you can see everything starts with “that you”, what will say

THAT YOU

are responsible how you feel. How you experience yourself and others. How you feel your body.

Only YOU can help yourself and it is really simple:

Just do it

The dance lasts about two hours.

It works on the seven principle energy centres (chakras) of the body.

Every centre is assigned to one or more planetary tones.

Every part of the dance covers the respective theme of the chakra – physical, mental and spiritual – and works on it automatically.

The instruments used for the music are tuned planetary - as far as possible - (part of them self constructed like the flutes and the didgeridoos).

Every theme lasts 15 minutes. All is handmade, no electronic.

All themes were recorded 15 minutes continuously – no samples.

Before every theme there is a short explication about the respective energy centre and a simple instruction.

The energy centres, its planets and its themes

Base chakra Solar day	charging/vital energy	Important note: To notice the full effect of the music you need a good stereo system or good headphones!
Sacral(sexual)chakra Synodical moon	union/exchange/placer
Solar plexus chakra Sun	recognition of oneself/magical life journey
Heart chakra Year tone	Heart warmth/feelings
Larynx chakra Mercury	communication with yourself and the world
Third eye chakra Venus	integration/unconditional love
Crown chakra Platonic year	dissolution/transcendence

Explications of the themes and instructions for the dance

1. Energy centre

Dance with a stamping rhythm. Rooted with mother earth. Connect yourself with her. Feel her under your feet.

Pure life energy that simply exists. Your actions in harmony with nature, with life. Mother earth. Basic needs. Sense of basic trust in your life. You can completely give yourself in to your mother. Earth as a safe place where you get what you need: attention, food, security and protection. All she has to offer for you, you take it gratefully. Sense of basic trust.

Negative – existential fear

2. Energy centre

Pelvis movements, stroke yourself, do yourself something good. If you find spontaneously a partner without striving for, dance with him/her without touching him/her.

Sexuality – female life energy. I have the right to enjoy the life with all senses. Feel the zest for life flowing through your body. Union of the sexes. Your feelings are natural, your actions creative.

Negative: self-consciousness, envy, jealousy – as a result there is sexual lack of enthusiasm or sexual hyperactivity.

3. Energy centre

Dance with the security and the consciousness that everything of you is good and you have the right to be how you are.

Life energy (prana), strength and power, act from the stomach, ability to assert oneself, acceptance of your being and respect for the feelings and peculiarities of the others. Magical life journey. Abundance is your birth right. I also have the right to say no. (No is often the Yes for yourself)

Negative: with less energy: unfeelingness, indifference, insecurity, missing self-confidence. With too much energy: power obsessiveness, false ambition, lack of consideration, destructive frenzy.

4. Energy centre

Put your hands over your heart and let its beat guide your dance.

Immerse yourself in your heart. Feel love and pain, happiness and sadness. Allow everything that comes from your heart. Whatever comes out is good. No matter what it is, everything is good. Permit it.

Love and pain, act consciously, conscious contact with feelings, connection with others, tolerance, warmth, kindness, cheerfulness, sympathy, helpfulness

Negative: loveless, bitter attitude, feeling of being separated, isolation, problems in mixing with others, loneliness.

5. Energy centre

First dance alone with yourself – feel how your communication is with yourself. How is the communication between mind and body? Everyone has what it needs?

When the singing begins (e-a-a me-a-a, translated “I am I, I am you”), we take hold of everybody’s hands and form a circle. While we sing we start to move us freely. We pass under the arms of the others and we let go of only if there is no other possibility. Immediately we take hold of the hands and we continue.

Balance between feeling and thinking. Communication with yourself and your body, with yourself and the others, facility in speech, reveal weakness, show strength, sincerity with yourself and others, gift of listening, inspiration, interaction, refinement of speech and expression, listening, sound.

Negative: unconscious feelings of guilt, fear, shyness, disturbed communication between head and body (disregard of the real needs of the body)

6. Energy centre

Dance how you feel.

Now everything is brought together, the opposites (female-male) are united. We move freely and free of all preoccupations – with the feeling of deep love for everyone and everything.

Free flowing – intuition, love, power of imagination, fantasy, inner cognition of the reality, grasp yourself as part of the whole.

Negative: down by the head, arrogance, want to control other people or things with mental power, lack of concentration, selfishness, self-glorification, ambition for power.

7. Energy centre

Lay or sit down comfortable and enjoy the unity of your being. All is done.

Standstill – higher self, superior mind, cosmic energy, getting conscious of the being, cognition, entirety. There is nothing more to do.

(Feelings dissolve – opposites have dissolved. I am the creation – the creation is me.)

8. After finishing the music we remain certain time in the taken position and enjoy our state.

Then we come back to our mother earth with the last theme of the second CD (Mars - purposeful energy). You will find the dance for it by yourself.

And now enjoy

Oh and we tried it out, this music is perfectly suitable for meditating, cuddling and many other kinds of feel-yourself-good activities.

The planetary tones and the law of the cosmic octave

The entire universe is in constant vibration - from the smallest elementary particle to the largest accumulation of stars. Vibrations are processes where the physical state of matter changes periodically in time. It is the speed of vibration which is responsible for the possibility of hearing, seeing, feeling up to the point of not being able to perceive anything, because the speed might be too fast or too slow for our sense perception.

The planets of our solar system move around the sun in regular cycles. Also a musical tone is defined as its vibrations take place regularly (we hear irregular vibrations as noise).

With a simple law of nature, the so called “law of the octave”, you can transfer the rhythms of the planets to our audible range.

Anybody who wants more information about the law of the octave and the calculation of the planetary tones, should have a look here

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