Why Dance-Focused Feminine Energy®
Although the concept of feminine and masculine energy originates from Eastern philosophy, it has recently started to hold meaning in our Western minds as well. The Taoist yin-yang symbol and its widely known interpretation, “Within every good, there is some bad, and within every bad, there is some good,” is true, but its meaning is far broader.
Yin and yang manifest in many different ways in the universe; rather than being opposites, they are complementary to each other. Being and doing, night and day, inside and outside, moon and sun, earth and sky, rooting and growing, surrendering and striving, and so on.
Since we embraced rationality as the only salvation, we have begun to perceive life as a very linear process, something to be achieved, yet we never managed to fill the void within that “something.” We can now observe that the younger generation, due to the accessibility of information and the consumption of everyday life, has started to feel an intense existential crisis at an early age.
Throughout this process, I believe that when we free the universe, existence, and questions like “Who am I?” and “What do I want?” from the prison of the mind and spread them to the whole body—perhaps to life itself—the answers will begin to reveal themselves. Because *I am not my thoughts.*
Feminine energy teaches us this very truth: that we are deeper than we think, that our inner space is full of surprises. By making space for our feminine energy and learning its practices, we can begin to understand the effortlessness of being as we are and the simplicity of existence—and by nature, once we understand it, we can begin to live it.
Dance and movement are powerful languages, forms of expression and connection that existed before humans even had words. In reference to the saying, “In the beginning, there was dance,” we can say that dance offers us the deep, unexplainable ways of connecting with life and ourselves, ways that cognition cannot define.
The Dance-Focused Feminine Energy® method I am developing seeks to provide a holistic and reliable perspective on the separation of mind, body, and spirit that the modern world has caused in people. We approach this perspective through dance-focused bodily practices supported by multidisciplinary theories, and we begin to understand that what we are seeking is not so far away after all.
Experiencing this with the body is important, because then the knowledge doesn’t remain just in words or in our minds—it spreads throughout the entire body and becomes real. We begin to remember that we ourselves are knowledge. Knowledge is universal and everywhere.
A poem from *Tao Te Ching* by Lao Tzu, as interpreted by Ursula K. Le Guin, in my opinion, beautifully captures the essence of feminine energy in words:
"The softest thing on earth
overcomes the hardest thing on earth.
That which has no substance
enters where there is no space.
This shows the value of non-action.
Teaching without words,
benefit without doing—
few in the world understand these things.”