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September/October 2002 Living Now
Dance of the Divine

by Detlef & Tatjana Dorsch

Detlef Dorsch and his wife Tatjana will be holding two movement workshops in downtown Portland. Even those who feel physically challenged or "out of sync" with their body will definitely benefit from this program! The workshops will be held on Saturday, September 14th and on Saturday, October 12th from 2:00 - 4:00 pm at Body Moves Studio, 918 SW Yamhill, 4th floor (one block west of Nordstrom, across the street from Smart-Park garage). The cost is $80 per person per workshop. To register for either workshop call (509) 927-3391 or e-mail DDorsch@wwdb.org.

It is difficult to speak about the Dance -- it is life, it is love, it is truth all at the same time. It is more a feeling and thinking experience as a whole, not just a fraction of our existence. We do not swim in only a drop of water -- we swim in the entire sea of energies around us. Naturally we need to know fundamentals about our life, about our body -- basics about its structure, the way it is built and functions. There are many different ways of moving to various kinds of music in order to allow our emotions to surface and flow and we are assisted by all the techniques and systems available to us, but this is the necessary starting point.

However, in order to become aware and to be in contact with our soul-body and spiritual higher self, we must be honest and receptive. Through the purity and clarity of our spiritual qualities and thoughts we can be better channels for Spirit. Yes, the body can be a channel. It is a medium for Spirit, for the power of God to come into it, as we can witness in all so-called "indigenous" cultures. We have forgotten this. What have we done with our bodies? In most cases, we no longer treat them as holy temples for receiving the Dance of the Divine.

In this sense, our inner emotional/mental attitude and exercise is vital and important. By "inner exercise" I truly mean a deep training of the muscles of the body and mind, a profound knowing about our muscles and joints and all the limbs of our body. If we are aware of the deeper meaning of our body and all its parts, then we can progress tremendously quickly, as this allows us to view what is really taking place in our own personal inner/outer universe.

We must learn to think with our different bodies, to come in touch with our blood, our veins, our arteries and cellular and atomic structure, with the breath of our body, with its time and space frequencies through our uplifted mind-self. To do this, we must truly love our body, literally accept its beingness, and be thankful for its composition as was created by our angel-self. Our angels built us perfectly as we are--do not despise your angel-body, do not reject it! Many times when we look at our bodies, we often do not see them as being as beautiful as others around us. This is not true or good to think, because we must first acknowledge our own body-universe and then bring it into communion with our higher subtle bodies. Remember Christ’s injunction to "Love your neighbor as YOURSELF." How can we see and accept other bodies if we do not acknowledge and accept our own?

First live in your own body-temple and light the candle of individual illumination. Burn fragrance and incense upon the altar of your prayers, and breath in the Holy Spirit. Invoke through the uplifted flame of your Christ-light the presence of the great I AM. Your own I AM is dancing within you at all times. It is your own activity, and you alone control its expression. Connect with your angel guide in your inner chamber, and know that your I AM being is ever present and powerful within you.

By moving the limbs of our body, we intensify all feelings and thoughts we have while doing so. We give praise and thanks to the Creator, who has created us in his own image. We receive the strength and endurance to work in this dense matter as well as in other levels of matter more subtle and ethereal. Through our uplifted I AM we can make our body fly over all hindrances of gravity, mechanical time and limited space. Our body is our time-ship, our space-ship, our spiritual vehicle, our transformative vessel. Our spontaneity and flexibility in flight in our spiritual uplifted movement is a joy to the Divine and invites instant blessing and precipitation of wonderful energies and entities to help us in this process.

Rejoice and Dance in the Divine. The Dance gives us the awareness of our physical/emotional/causal and spiritual evolution, starting from the inner atomic core of our being, on through our elementary "I" until we reach our higher "I" and "I AM. The streams of holy fire thereby released protect us, clearing away the murky waters of unpurified feelings and hidden deeps, letting us stand upon the higher shore and platform of our Divine mentality. Let us be initiated into the holy chamber of our causal body to eternal creative remembrance of our being!

The Dance with the Divine, out of the Divine, through the Divine and as the Divine is our heritage, our privilege, our calling back to our home, where we live in poise and excitement, where we live in ecstasy and in peaceful awareness of the Most High.

Detlef Dorsch is a professional dancer/choreographer/ performer/teacher, formerly with the Berlin Opera Ballet Company and the Berlin Academy of Arts. He has had his own studios in Berlin and West Germany was involved in numerous European television dance productions. He and his wife Tatjana divide their time between Europe and home in the Pacific Northwest. Detlef is in the process of writing books and developing videos based on his vast experience in dance and spiritual movement.