Contact with the ground, barefoot, dancing barefoot, sleeping on the floor, feeling how close you are to the ground. Walking, placing your feet down carefully, taking pleasure in the sole of your foot touching the flat surface of the earth, slowly, like a cat, drawing strength from it. Dancing barefoot, like animals dance, dancing barefoot makes you free, makes you yearn to be unstoppable, to be like a force of nature, all-consuming, writhing in thirst, in hunger, in desire.
Don’t separate yourself from the ground, don’t cut yourself from that source, from that source of strength, from that grip, from this sweet heaviness that wraps around your ankles, holds you down, deliciously close to the ground, deliciously powerful and fearless. Because close to the ground you are fearless, you are the one in power, you are the source of light that draws in the moths, you are the animal above all animals. Don’t forget to make your feet dirty, to stump that ground, that earth, in the rhythm of your heart, of your heart pumping, so wild.
On the picture: OSHUN: GODDESS OF LOVE
from:
http://www.goddessmyths.com/Lucina-Ptesan-Wi.html
Oshun, the Yoruba Goddess of Love and Life-Sustaining Rivers, is the Goddess of all the arts, but especially dance. Beauty belongs to Oshun and represents the human ability to create beauty for its own sake, to create beyond need. It is also said that she is the knitter of civilization, since great cities have been founded, for the most part, along rivers in order to supply water to their populations. She is portrayed here in a pose typical of the Yoruba priestesses of Oshun who recline gracefully along the banks of the Niger River in West Africa. In the branches of the tree on the left is the fan of one of these priestesses from Osogbo, Nigeria.
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