About

ESSENCE DANCE is a blindfolded spiritual practice based on ancient shamanic Trance Dance and Hawaiian Wisdom. It provides a space where you can journey into yourself as deeply as you are willing to go in this moment. Connecting you with your creative power, your life force and your true purpose in this lifetime, Essence Dance roots your spirit firmly in your body and supports your consciousness expanding far beyond this lifetime.

The blindfold prevents your mind from limiting your experience to what is already known and allows your being to journey into a deeper truth than your mind can comprehend. No one is watching you – not even you, and suddenly you find yourself free to know who you really are, without past limitations.

Once your blindfold is on rhythmic beats and percussive instruments take you on a journey within. Everything you need to know is explained at the beginning of the dance and a safe space is provided for you to truly let go of any inhibitions so that you can ‘dance like nobody is watching’.

Essence Dance is a unique practice that has been known to enhance many people’s experiences of becoming a true co-creator in their lives, living with greater passion, deeper love and total authenticity. It is a practice that appeals to a broad range of people – from those who already use dance as a tool for growth, to the opposite end of the spectrum of people who have always been too afraid to dance.

Shamanic Trance Dance

Dance has been used for millennia in cultures all over the world, for both ecstatic and healing purposes. The ‘Trance Dance’ that is used in Essence Dance originates in Shamanic cultures where dance was used to enter what is known as the ‘mystery’ place – the place where time and space cease to exist, all becomes one and healing occurs. It is in this place where you invite your spirit to enter your body and you can re-member all of who you are in this lifetime. During the dance you often become aware of limiting beliefs/patterns that are no longer serving you, tremendous positive life force energy can be awakened and you may experience visions and profound clarity. It’s like opening doorways in your consciousness and simultaneously opening up the channels in your mind and body consciousness so that you can integrate these awareness’ simply and joyfully.

Hawaiian Wisdom

Hawaiian culture has so much to offer us in remembering how to live in love, openness, respect, connection to our bodies, earth and spirit, and in taking passionate responsibility for creating our own lives.

It is a culture based on Aloha – love, joy and full honouring of the connection between all things and all that is.

This ancient wisdom helps to remind us that we are born to live in joy, and that now is the moment to create the life we want to live.

Much of this profound wisdom is shared in Essence Dance, with 9 Hawaiian Principles that have been specifically chosen to support you in becoming a co-creator in your life.

In the Western world we are often taught that we are separate from God (or the Universe/Creation or whatever you relate to), and therefore the belief is that you are separate from creation. This is an extremely disempowering model for living and creating from.

Most of us learn this idea from when we are conceived, and we continue our lives being bombarded daily with the idea that we are powerless because someone or something outside of us has ultimate power over our lives.

There is also an inherent belief in our culture that light and dark, or “positive” and “negative”,are completely separate from each other – which creates feelings of guilt, judgement and separation.

Hawaiian wisdom encourages us to see that everything is connected, that there is no positive (“good”) or negative (“bad”), as the only thing that separates these is our perception, and it is the consequences that matter. It reminds us that we are creation itself, and we are our own creators.

If you believe you have the power to affect your life you do. If you believe something is positive for you it is, and if you believe something is negative then this will be your experience of whatever it is.

What truly matters the most is whether something is effective for you now.

You can always choose the thing that is effective for you as much as you have the power to choose what is not effective.

When we realise that everything is connected we have the power to change our life and our world.

When we truly recognise that life comes out of the light AND the darkness, we can embrace all of who we are …healing ourselves by becoming whole.

You could live your whole life (as many do) without ever knowing there could be another way of looking at and experiencing the universe!

Hawaiian wisdom inspires us to look at and act on the possibilities that allow deep change…

He loli ole, Ke ‘alo a’e, He paio koho

*Changes are inevitable, struggle is an option

Read more about the 9 Hawaiian Principles of Essence Dance