The longest journey is the journey inward.
- Dag Hammarskjold

Great Egret Dance

The process of life, poetically speaking, is a passing between dream and reality, and the mark of anyone I could ever trust or care for, is that he would never presume to say which is which.

-       Modean Gill, via David Lee, So Quietly The Earth

Heron Dance explores techniques that enhance our connection to the inner world underlying each of our lives. That world encompasses our  accumulated life wisdom, the lessons learned from successes and failures.  

It often doesn’t communicate in words, in clear concise phrases or advice. It’s more roundabout, more indirect. It offers feelings, images, moods, colors -- the vague shapes that seemingly arise out of nowhere, out of the ether. It wants to guide us. It wants to help. It waits. It is reticent, shy. But it wants the best for each of us.

Something inside each of us is seeking to manifest, to emerge, to birth. A potential, a gift, a uniqueness. It could be a creative work, it could be a contribution to the lives of others. It is, in some way, a continuity, a current of energy, a life force seeking to grow.

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Sit in silence. Sense the underlying current of your life. Allow symbols to represent the major events of your life, the turning points, the major successes and failures. The major choices, including choices made after careful thought but also choices made on intuition or even impulse.

Look for patterns. Look for what is trying to manifest. Look for an inner myth that may be guiding you without you knowing it. Write down what presents itself.