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Every now and then I receive a newsletter from the CASA:
I remembered then that I had once heard that in many
indigenous cultures the medicine man or shaman will ask
a person who is ill or despondent, "When did you stop
singing?" and "When did you stop dancing?" and I realized
I had lost a vital part of me along the way -my Jester.
Patricia Adson, Ph.D.
http://www.herowithin.com/
My next training lesson I realised the joy of aikido. The movement of the techniques is quite literally a dance and at child like behaviours. Which makes me remember two quotes.
1. to describe aikido to someone that has never heard of it before would be -- "it's like a dance, yoga and osteopath"
2. There is a fine line between education and entertainment
08-02-2006 04:42 AM 