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Emotion into Motion – Dance Class with Dawn

Emotion into Motion – Dance Class with Dawn

Monday evnings in Tel Aviv

A Dance class to explore your full range of free movements, while going through different emotional states to empty our selves to reveal the joy of abundant life.

This is an energetic ,flowing, and at times ecstatic tribal dance. We will explore masculinity and femininity within the movement,stripping away layers of the outer shell to reveal truth within. WE dance together to : be witnessed to dance in an environment that is fun, safe, healing, sexy, exploratory and growthfull. to empty our minds ,so that we can get of our own way. Explore the dance of ourselves(the dance from within), the other and spirit and the sacred to find the point of inner silence.

THIS IS AN ONGOING DANCE CLASS.WE MIGHT GO IN A SERIES,SO IF YOU HAVE NOT BEEN,OR HAVE NOT BEEN FOR A WHILE ,PLEASE CALL TO CONFIRM 052-5213137; SISTERDAWN3@AOL.COM

About Dawn: Dawn Cherie Ezrahi is a teacher and a performer. Her work is focused on women’s movement, ritual and empowerment. She is the co-founder of the school of love in Kabala, and of HaShevet spiritual community. Along with her husband Ohad she teaches the way of sacred relationships and spiritual growth. Dawn is an American living in Israel and teaching internationally. Prior to that she was living in NYC for many years where she was a professional actress and performer. Combined with specialized methods inspired by: Five Rhythms Ritual Theater The work of David Deida and Breath work

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Surrendering to Love

By: Dawn C. Ezrahi

How have I melted the layers surrounding my heart, after years of being a devout control freak, and fiercely independent woman.  I was always the first one to leave a relationship, ‘leave before he can leave me’ - that was my silent mantra. I was living a half surrendered life with a half surrendered mirror reciprocal of me.

As a gift to you the reader, I simply say ‘surrender,’ especially in intimate relationships. Surrendering is an act of love to God, to your higher being, and greater power. Our power is in our love and in yielding to it. It takes acts of tremendous courage and faith to surrender, to let go of the locks around our heart.

Who wants to give up control?

One of my high school idols was a character from a feminist play from the late 70′s in which a group of couples get together to deal with love and freedom. The title has fallen from memory, but the characters’ dilemmas have not. One radical feminist character was resisting falling in love. She said to her friends, ?come on think about it, the very act of having sex with a man, and if you’re going to have an orgasm, is going to involve some loss of control and giving up of power.? At the time this struck home, I didn’t want to lose control or lose my identity to some man. Some 20 years later, her words have a ring of sadness.

Why, why should I surrender? you might ask. Maybe you feel comfortable in a state of semi closure and being on guard in intimate relationships. Perhaps you feel that you need to wait for the ‘right’ partner to magically appear or perhaps you say to yourself when the moon is at the right angle, and this perfect person is in front of me, and has cushions of cupids’ arrows and wings of light and promises of love for ever after then will I let go.

If you’ve been hurt one too many times by a lover or a parent (and truthfully who hasn’t?) you don’t want to be hurt again; your desire to let go might be a bit shaky.  I don’t want to be hurt again, you mutter to yourself, as you enter or continue the dance of dating or going deeper into one relationship, or falling in love (do I hear fear of falling.)

Out of the darkness, comes the light

I thank my past partners who have helped my heart to open. I thank one for giving me the gift of the most stabbing, searing pain of heartbreak imaginable. It is, I feel, when I went to the deepest pain that I realized that it couldn’t get any worse. Yes even disappointment and heartbreak has helped me to surrender more deeply.

It wasn’t until I was able to trust my present partner’s guidance and wisdom that I became available to feel the magic and joy that happens in a fully surrendered relationship. Now I am no longer compromising and settling for a love that doesn’t support me.

I have learnt not to view my partner as if he is the enemy, as if he’s going to hurt me. Maybe he is going to hurt me, in some way. We are all human. We make mistakes and ultimately we die. But why, I ask myself, act from that hurt place? Imagine what kind of people you’re going to attract. Two deeply wounded souls expecting pain is not a good beginning for a relationship.

So why do I want to open? To experience love at a level of intensity and depth that is so inviting and rewarding. Just like it’s wonderful to surrender to a dance, a warm pool or a lush forest.

When what you crave is a deep heart open connection with another being, when your body aches to merge with another body completely, then no less than an act of total surrender will do. If you desire to deepen your connection to God, or a higher force, then loving through this person is the best way to, as a certain song says, bring heaven down to earth.

Of course another person can never make you truly happy. We create our own love and ecstacy. No one from the outside can give you the love that you are already. They will mirror you though in illuminating ways.

With practice the protective hard exterior surrounding your heart can lessen, like a muscle that can be strengthened. We need to practise though especially when your being is habitually used to closing up.

It is the greatest act of love to show someone your open feeling heart. This might only happen after you’ve trained yourself enough to trust people and to know who will hold you in the sacred way that you are meant to be held.

The way that I’ve experienced the bliss of ecstatic oneness through partnership is nothing less than total surrender to the other in a unguarded way; to trust the other and the depth of the relationship completely. This act in intimate partnership will overflow into all aspects of your life.

Breath, stay open and trust.  I bless you on your journey.