Dancing Rabbit eco-village is situated in Missouri. In this beautiful eco-village a blues dance weekend by the name of Off Grid Blues is organized. It is quite an amazing, eye-opening and wonderful experience. This dance weekend will make you feel home to yourself, your own body and your passion for couple dance. It will be an epiphany for you, an experiential metaphor for love as well as life. Along with improvement in your dancing, this experience will also provide you many insights. Some of them have been discussed as follows:
· It is important to maintain balance for the dance to be smooth and effortless. You need to trust yourself and your partner and dance while being on your own center and moving with his or her center as well. If you will hold all your weight independently, there won’t be any contact and synchronicity and hence, no dance. Do not lean too far, collapse into or overpower your partner while dancing or else there won’t be any freedom, ease, flow or self expression.
· It is easy to deny or accept a dance. You can connect to somebody for a short dance, say your thanks and move on. However, it is easier to dance for your own desire rather than to please somebody else. Play easy with body contact, flirting and sexuality. A dance enables you to play with other individuals while remaining faithful to your spouse.
· Do not judge your dance. It is simply fun to move together on a good song. However, at times it may become a little awkward. You just need to take a good breath, laugh and come back into connection to finish the dance.
· Presence is another important aspect. As soon as an individual’s brain will kick in and begin to anticipate he or she will start to lose the rhythm, the dance and the simple joy of it. Do not try to guess where your partner wants you to go instead of actually listening to what they are trying to tell you, you will do a disservice to yourself and to your partner. Consequently, the dance will deteriorate. At times, even meditating for long hours to calm your mind may not help. The experience at Off Grid Blues will give you some of the most sustained moments of staying in the present moment.
· Blues dancing has three essential components of the dance of humanity, i.e. forming a connection, being interdependent and then separation. Some of us wish to be autonomous, free and independent while some of us wish to have love, care, connection, interdependence and sharing. Dancing gives you the opportunity to come together, share weight-space-love and then separate. Your experience at Off Grid Blues will help you learn how to be your own individual selves and how to stand on your own prior to and after the dance. It will teach you how to feel the togetherness of shared movement. It will help you feel sustainable human presence.