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Dance is my native tongue, my love language. It has been the vocabulary of my spirit long before I could speak, but when I began technique classes at four, most of dance's sweet, natural harmonic was trained out. Dancing became about the body's position and line, about performance and getting it right. About being good enough for approval.

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During careers in finance, life coaching, and writing, I plastered on masculine traits, always pushing, competing, fixing, doing...even subconsciously lowering my voice in business situations to assimilate into the patriarchal culture. When I came back to dance, it gifted me with a dynamic medium to remember my femininity and reconnect with my yin essence.

 

Dance is such a metaphor for how we live. Do we worry about getting it right? What others will think? Do we hold our bodies fearfully? Willing to step outside of comfort zones; try something new? Listening to what our body is asking us for? Make what is presented to us our own, right for our nature? 

 

When I moved to Asheville 8 years ago in order to remember who I was, Sensu Dance and I began our twining journey of discovery and release. At first, I still clung to how I thought a dance class should be taught. Overtime as this town and her people offered their magic, Sensu Dance became my catalytic powerspace of somatic exploration and expression.  As Sensu transformed, I was found. As I was freed, Sensu Dance expanded. Each dynamically fed and grew the other.​

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Dancing soul-embodied enables me to move beyond my mind, cultural conditioning, and generational patterning to fully express my true nature. It has activated my sensuality, so I live in tune with my body wisdom and senses. In recent years, I have literally danced my Self out through my skin and into the World. I have danced myself free!

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-Sharah Saltzgiver