Wow FIREDANCE!

What an amazing experience!  So much happened in such a short time!  So many things released, processes, downloaded, changed, given, and received.  Could it all really have happen in only 4 days?!?

Energy shifted around us, within us, and, within ME!  I feel empowered!  I feel more like myself, now, than ever before. 

To dance and chant, to feel the rhythm of the drums in my soul, to open myself, to make heart to heart connections, to really feel connected to this amazing group of people, some of whom I do not even know their names, is astounding to me. (especially considering that I have known people for years in my day-to-day life with whom I have never felt this level of connection!!!)

I felt love this week!  I felt love all around me.  I felt love going from me to everyone I could send it to; I felt it coming from every being I layed eyes on.  I felt un-restrained, open, unconditional, freely given LOVE!  It felt freeing.  I felt free!  I felt like me.  It was OK to hug strangers.  It was OK to tell people the truth, to tell them of the love I have for them.  It was OK to open my heart and share my love… share myself!

ALL of this with NO risk!  No chance of being wrong.  No chance of being laughed at or made fun of.

Every one I looked at the entire week made eye contact (and Heart Contact) and smiled, lovingly and openly! Encouraging me to be myself: free, happy and unveiled.

 To be in community…

 To be with family…

 TO BE HOME…

 This is how our world should be!  This is the example of what our world should be like.  Community, Family, Friends, helping each other, serving each other, healing each other, loving each other!

This is the world I want to live in.  Where the magic is made by the whole for the few! NOT where the magic is made by one for the whole!!

 Everything is different now.  I am different, no longer can I hide who I am.  I have been exposed and I loved it! I walk around with a different feeling running around in my body.  I walk around to the beat of the drums in my ears.  I can’t stand still, I find myself dancing!  I find myself looking to the strangers around me for eye contact, heart contact, and am occasionally pleased (and surprised) to find it!  I am longing to be back in this setting already, (it hasn’t even been a week since we left).  Mellissa and I were already talking on our long drive home about plans for next year, what we have to remember to bring, and what we were looking forward to!  But for now we all have to go back to our reality… back to work and back to our day-to-day lives.  We can do this only because we know there is hope of another FIREDANCE next year that we will be at and that will inspire us, fire us up, then send us back on our way.  We can do this only because we know there is hope of another FIREDANCE next year that we will be at, and that will inspire us, fire us up, then send us back on our way.

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Vikki  is currently finishing her degree in massage therapy. Reach her at (619) 865-2846.  For more information on the annual FIREDANCE (it's always capitalized because words are too small to describe it) gathering outside of Santa Cruz, California, see www.FIREDANCE.org.