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Stillness Is The Dancing
We are born expecting (from an evolutionary sense) a rich and sensuous relationship with the earth and communal rituals of celebration, grief, and healing that keep us in connection with the sacred.
This is our inheritance, our birthright, which has been lost and abandoned. The absence of these requirements haunts us, even if we can’t give them a name, and we feel their loss as an ache, a vague sadness…
— Francis Weller, “In The Wild Edge of Sorrow”
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I am honored that the Maasai of the Mara Napa Foundation have chosen me to record and document traditional songs and dances for future generations. This aligns with my Kinetic Voice (KiVo) program which teaches the power of the voice and dance, not for entertainment, but for celebration, empowerment and healing… Sometimes one must simply follow the path of heart…
— Michelle Schmidt Nirenstein
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I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the hope and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
