About Dance

Soul Motion™

Soul Motion is a free form movement practice which can look like meditation, trance or full on frenetic dance. It facilitates the body/mind/spirit connection and opens access to insight, healing, transformation, and ecstatic embodiment. Designed by Vinn Marti (www.soulmotion.com) it is a pliable practice and is described in many ways depending on your experience of it.
The most common response I hear when I first tell folks about Soul Motion, is anxiety about ‘dancing.’ Comments include: “I’ll look/feel foolish” “I won’t be able to do it right” or “I can’t dance.” While I certainly understand these feelings (having felt them all myself), I know that, if they can be in the actual practice for 10 minutes, they will ‘get it’, their experience will tell them more than any words I can offer. They will come to understand that there are no steps; there are no expectations; and no one is watching them! The dance comes from them so it can’t possibly be wrong.
I have come to recognize that this form of dance is a mystical practice, using our bodies as an expression of our devotion. The way that you move your hands, or step a foot forward or back, the way you arch your back- everything is done as an offering. It becomes an active form of prayer, of meditation, of grace.
Move with intention and everything changes. What that means is anything that arises through movement can be a pathway to insight. If you just keep moving and breathing deeply, the feeling shifts into something else. This can translate into transformation in your ordinary life; movement and breath can alter whatever is going on in the moment.
Since I began to study and teach movement as a life/spirit-sustaining practice, I have been privileged to both experience and witness the transformation of wounds into blessings; grief into healing; confusion into clarity; and, indifference into commitment. Soul Motion facilitates insight; helps us to dance from inspiration; encourages our common connection with each other; and supports our integration with Spirit. It facilitates a profound connection to the Source of Love and Healing. It is exhilarating.