You are blessed, because you have this subtle feeling for coherences and the mystical essence... And I guess, you understand also the secret symbols we have woven into this video... Thank you for your sharing!

Yesterday, for the first time in my life, I discovered Tandava, the yoga of meditation-in-movement. Much of the day, yesterday, I spent listening to and watching your youtube videos on Tandava. I've also printed out a commentary on Spandakarika, and I've studied your website. I've distilled your material on Tandava into printed instructions which I intend to work with today. I was above all drawn to your exquisite, profound and skillful movements, centered as I intuit they are, on a deep inner heart connection with your essence, and expressed through a supple and fully responsive and sensitized physical body. Over and over again I watched your Egyptian Temple dance; it expresses something mystical and profound as you say. I've been meditating daily for several decades, but have always wanted to discover a form of meditation in movement that felt right (tai chi and chikung did not). When dancing to House Music, my move were naturally those of Tandava, have been from the start. When I went to the village of Nadi Astrologers in India, years ago, my deep connection with Shiva was pointed out. It all fits together magically. Today, I will be watching again, and beginning to "practice", although really, what I feel is that it is simply "entry into the cosmic flow). I have crystals all around the place where the movements will be done, and thoroughly cleaned and prepared the setting yesterday. To you I offer profound respect and my heart's gratitude for manifesting the sublime, divine power of Tandava. You will feel what is behind these words, I doubt not! (www.rogercalverley.com)

You are writing beautiful books... Love & light Elisabeth

You are welcome ...:-)! The fouth phase is sitting in stillness and making a journey inside your body... and then... perhaps... ypu will feel the SPANDA, the subtle vibration with the Cosmos...

I didn't know that it was called Spanda but I felt it since long time for short glimpses triggered by exercises of Tai Chi, musical inspiration, walking in nature or looking at the clouds...Tandava like it was taught to Daniel just seems to be a universal bodylanguage connectet to all senses and to all formes of expression, the forth phase beeing the link to Vipassana, the only real formless practice I met before discovering Tandava few times ago...

It is exactly as you describe...:-) In nature we are feeling the Spanda very often... Since I was a little girl, I am feeling it when I am watching leaves moving in the wind... And when we are dancing we can deel it strongly... It is said, that Tandava is the source of all forms of Yoga and also of Tai Chi... the ancient Cashmiris of North India where very connected to the Chinese and Tibetians...

Is that near what the Chinese call the silk road ?which was where people would trade goods in ancient times .

+Douchka Lecot Daniel's teaching opens us a space for real freedom, fluidity, oneness and a heart vibrating with cosmic love...Thank you too for your sharing :-)

Thank you, Dear ...:-) !

Why is this dance "sacred"? The gestures and movements of Oriental Dance originate from prehistoric matriarchal societies and the temples of ancient civilizations such as the Sumerians, Greeks, Egyptians, and Indians. At that time a broad range of female deities - eg fertility-, mother-, wisdom- and love goddesses - symbolized the many faces of the One Goddess, the Cosmic Mother and the positions that women occupied in these early societies - the mother, the creator, the preserver, the seer, the healer, the lover, the initiator ... Since the activities of the priestesses who served in these temples took place in the power-field of the Goddess, they were called "Saints" and they had "sacred bodies". Through dancing they connected themselves with the Goddess - whether she was called Innana, Demeter, Isis or Shakti - and entered into her energy field. Through dancing they reached higher levels of spirituality and consciousness . The energy released in their bodies through this sacred movements, was passed on to the temple visitors who were nourished by this divine force. The mysteries of the first ancestresses The temple dance of ancient high cultures were developed from the shamanic dances of matriarchal cultures of prehistoric times. In diverse scientific publications matriarchy is described as a type of society in which all social and legal relations are based on the descent of the maternal line. All religious ideas originate from an ancestress or primordial goddess and women play a central role in society and religion. They can develop themselves freely and are highly respected. Men then were hunters, women collectors. The women contributed a lot more to survival than men, because hunting was uncertain, but fruit, tubers, roots and small animals were always available. This created a deep connection with nature, which nourished people and kept them alive. They believed in the Great Cosmic Mother, in the wholeness of the Female and oneness with nature and in women's ability to be power-transmitters and initiators. In these cultures, dance was the most elementary spiritual expression. At night the women came together - in the absence of men - to celebrate the Female Mysteries . Their whole being vibrated by worshipping the Great Mother, the Primordial Goddess. Through dancing the women brought themselves into harmony with the Cosmos, surrendering to life and to the divine. They used their bodies to achieve a higher spiritual state in which they could open their hearts completely to unconditional love. The Bayaderes - Indian temple dancers Long after south indian temple dancers, the Bayaderes, came to Egypt (ap 1500 BC) where they transformed the strong, stiff movements of the court dance into soft flowing movements, women on the north coast of Africa, in the southern and eastern Mediterranean and in the deserts of the Middle East created a dance of great skillfulness, in which the power of the pelvis was the foundation. The original movements of the sacred archaic dances were preserved. Even in today’s oriental dance you can feel archaic remnants of female power, spirituality and sensuality. However, it’s sacred and spiritual character were lost, especially in the West, where it developed into a dance solely for entertainment purposes. Eastern dances, however, never dissolved their connection to sacred rituals, where body and mind were joined together in union. The erotic-sexual aspect in eastern dances always refers to a sublime sacred love - human love as a symbol of love for the divine…