Heal Through Dance: A Guidebook for Creating Somatic Movement Practices

By Arielle Star Triana

A guidebook for creating your own somatic movement practice, Heal Through Dance distills the essence of Arielle Star Triana’s teachings for a worldwide audience. Designed for instructors, dancers and beginners interested in freeform movement, Heal through Dance celebrates physical embodiment within the context of the sacred feminine.

Star as she is known to her students masterfully weaves together exercises known to heal trauma with ancient cultural practices ranging from Indian, Egyptian, and Hawaiian to Native American, Essene and Celtic.

Heal through Dance is an invitation to become your own healer and an ecstatic dance facilitator. Let your dance become an embodied prayer through the layers of Earth, water, fire, love, SOUND, and light.

Quotes from readers:

“A work of beauty sourced from the stars.”

“The playlists for trance dance, tribal dance, and infinity dance are exquisite.”

“The alchemy you create in this work is that of a true healer.”

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Nov 11, 2021
• ISBN: 9781982270070

Arielle Star Triana

Arielle Star Triana While spending six months in silence, Star had an insight that changed her life in ways she never could have expected. After college and a successful corporate career, the question arose, “What else is there?” During a short hiatus from corporate life, Star went on a spiritual pilgrimage to the Himalayas with her Guru from India. She spent nearly a month trekking to the highest mountaintops that held some of the most ancient temples on the planet. After this trek she headed south to the ashram, where she did volunteer work, which touched her so deeply that she phoned her mother to tell her that she was leaving her corporate career to move to India to be a volunteer. She returned to the U.S. and gave away her possessions, scaling down to just two suitcases. Then, she was off to India, indefinitely, as the pathway of a spiritual journey opened. When she left her corporate career and luxurious lifestyle of jet-setting weekend getaways and high-powered global meetings, it was to follow the path of becoming a yoga teacher. She felt the Universe speaking to her through the people around her and the message was to become a yoga teacher. Her “Yoga” mission took her to India where she lived nearly five years doing volunteer work, which involved setting up a yoga spa, an Ayurvedic healing center, and a scholarship program for 2,000 underprivileged children. It was a life-changing experience. An important tradition in her yoga teacher training involved each student spending two weeks (sometimes up to one month) in silence. When she received the instruction that it was time for her to go into silence, she assumed it would be two weeks. However, two weeks came to close, and she was instructed to stay in silence indefinitely. During what ended up being six total months in silence, Star meditated up to 17 hours per day. One day she experienced everything starting to vibrate. As she opened her eyes her surroundings became a blur. In this vibration she heard voices that spoke and said, “Ecstatic Dance is the new yoga.” After receiving the message, she had to wait until she came out of silence to figure out what “Ecstatic Dance” was. During the six months of silence, Star spent many hours each day doing powerful Kriya and Kundalini yoga practices, which ramped up her energy so much that she experienced states of ecstasy so strong sometimes she could not walk because she was falling over in a drunk-like state. After coming out of silence, Star began to research “Ecstatic Dance” and learned that it is a modality of conscious or spiritual dance. Star’s first stop on her journey to discover ecstatic dance took her to Germany where she experienced an Ecstatic Dance nightclub. This was a big “wow” moment for her. She had no idea ecstatic dance nightclubs even existed and could not believe everyone was dancing, ecstatically high, without drugs or alcohol. The ecstasy Star felt during her first dance was so powerful that she had to sit down. The energy in the room was so powerful that without even trying to get to an elevated state it spontaneously happened. Star was utterly convinced, “This was it!” This is what the whole yoga mission was all about. Leaving her corporate career, spending five years in India, training intensively in yoga, volunteering hundreds of hours, and spending six months in silence all led her to this point. She thought if something so simple and fun could give her this much joy and bliss in such a short amount of time, then it was definitely worth exploring further. She studied various forms and modalities of conscious dance and became a facilitator, teaching consistently for two decades. During this time she did research and studied the healing benefits of dance while working with thousands of people in classes, workshops and teacher training. Star has birthed a facilitator training and book based on her research and experience and has dedicated her life to passing on the wisdom of healing dance.

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INTRODUCTION

This book is an invitation to awaken your highest potential and Soul Embodiment through the 44 Key-Codes.

The more you practice the Key-Codes, the faster you will embody the principles, qualities and benefits.

The Key-Codes are a library of teachings that encompass ancient technologies and modern science, blended into one seamless practice. The wisdom of the Key-Codes can be experienced through an embodied movement session that blends together somatic movement, self-inquiry and mind-body-energy practices.

The Key-Codes are not a linear set of instructions. You can start at the beginning and read cover to cover or you can move through the book in an intuitive way, spontaneously opening the book to any Key-Code or looking at the Key-Code Map (Table of Contents). Choose the Key-Code that speaks to you in the moment. The Key-Codes are based on multi-visionary and multi-sensory language that includes the mind’s eye and all senses coupled with the emotional, physical and energetic.

The first 5 Key-Codes introduce the core principles that our practice is based on. The next 34 Key-Codes are divided up into The Six Elements, which create the guide map for a sacred dance practice. The last 5 Key-Codes cover creating safe and sacred space, along with ritual and ceremony.

Dedicated to my beloved mother, Linda

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

THE SIX ELEMENTS

CHAPTER 1  THE CORE PRINCIPLES

Key-Code 1  Free-Form Dance

Key-Code 2  Somatic Movement

Key-Code 3  Conscious Breathing

Key-Code 4  Sound Moves Energy

Key-Code 5  The Chakra Sound Map

CHAPTER 2  THE EARTH KEY-CODES

Key-Code 6  The Earth Element

Key-Code 7  Setting Your Intentions

Key-Code 8  Root Lock Practice

Key-Code 9  Getting Grounded

Key-Code 10  The Earth Dance

CHAPTER 3  THE WATER KEY-CODES

Key-Code 11  The Element of Water

Key-Code 12  Sensation Consciousness

Key-Code 13  The Circle Embodiment

Key-Code 14  Dance Your Emotions

Key-Code 15  The Infinity Dance

CHAPTER 4  THE FIRE KEY-CODES

Key-Code 16  The Fire Element

Key-Code 17  Create Healthy Boundaries

Key-Code 18  Transformational Fire

Key-Code 19  The Tribal Dance

Key-Code 20  The Trance Dance

Key-Code 21  The Fire Breathwork

Key-Code 22  The Shaman

CHAPTER 5  THE LOVE KEY-CODES

Key-Code 23  Creating Self-Love Practices

Key-Code 24  Transmute Fear and Anger

Key-Code 25  Embody Forgiveness

Key-Code 26  Dancing With Love

Key-Code 27  Infinity Love Dance

Key-Code 28  The Love Breath

CHAPTER 6  THE PRAYER KEY-CODES

Key-Code 29  The Universal Vibration

Key-Code 30  Listen 50% - Speak 50%

Key-Code 31  Speaking Your Truth

Key-Code 32  Embodiment Practices

Key-Code 33  Your Manifestations

Key-Code 34  Awaken Your Voice

Key-Code 35  The Prayer Dance

CHAPTER 7  THE LIGHT KEY-CODES

Key-Code 36  The Element of Light

Key-Code 37  Awakening The Third Eye

Key-Code 38  Energy Healing With Light

Key-Code 39  The Gold Light Meditation

CHAPTER 8  RITUAL AND CEREMONY

Key-Code 40  Creating Physical Space

Key-Code 41  Creating Sacred Space

Key-Code 42  Angels and Directions

Key-Code 43  The Shamanic Fire Ritual

Key-Code 44  The Rainbow Meditation

ABOUT AUTHOR

DEDICATION

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THE SIX ELEMENTS

EARTH We begin with the seeds of our Intention and plant them as we become Grounded in the body. We step into a deeper sense of belonging, and embody the qualities of safety and prosperity.

WATER We connect with our sensations and acknowledge our Emotions as we Listen to the body, and trust what we feel as we follow our passion.

FIRE We invoke our Self-Confidence, create Healthy Boundaries and we stop leaking out our energy through feelings of lack and self-doubt.

LOVE We invoke the Feeling of Love and show others and ourselves compassion as we transmute fear and anger and move into forgiveness.

PRAYER We use our thoughts and words consciously to create what we want in our lives. We awaken our authentic voice and Speak our Truth.

LIGHT We invoke the light and work with our mind-body and energy as Lightworkers. We awaken our Inner Vision and communicate with the Divine.

CHAPTER 1

The Core Principles

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In this chapter you will find…

Free-Form Dance

Somatic Movement

Conscious Breathing

Sound Moves Energy

The Chakra Sound Map

Key-Code 1

Free-Form Dance

While spending six months in silence, during deep meditation and stillness one day, movement began to awaken at the bottom of my spine. My spine began to move and vibrate until my entire body was vibrating. As I opened my eyes, everything was a blur and I experienced myself and creation around me vibrating in unison and could no longer tell what is me and what is creation. In this awakening, a message was received, as clear as I can hear someone speaking next to me. I heard both male and female voices in harmony and union speak these words: Ecstatic Dance is the new yoga.

My first thought was, What is Ecstatic Dance?

At the time I was living at an ashram in India, and part of my teacher training was to go into silence without any communication with the outside world, doing yoga and meditation for 17-20 hours per day.

During my six months of silence, one day in meditation I received an insight that Ecstatic Dance is the new yoga, however I had no idea what that meant. I could clearly understand dance but what was ecstatic dance?

My journey to discover, learn and embody Ecstatic Dance led me to channel, align and birth the 44 Key-Codes and the journey of Healing Dance as a pathway of self-discovery and conscious awakening.

During my journey, I became self aware of how I wasn’t connected with my body. Through years of meditation, my mind was calm, clear and efficient, however, my body was another story. When I realized I wasn’t in my body, my prayers to the Universe became a single pointed focus. As I placed my hands on my lower belly and stood in the Pacific Ocean, I prayed to the God/Goddess and all that is holy to show me how to gain mastery over my body, energy and my womb.

Following the call to learn, study and embody dance whenever and wherever the Universe guided me, I studied with many and danced with thousands, embodied practices every day until the dance became part of my DNA and cellular memory.

I began to change my patterns, relationships and the entire course of my life. I began to witness mastery in many areas of my life and a synchronization that could only be explained as Divine.

I realized that once you become self-aware and see the dance or story you are in, you can then begin to change it. In the dance, you give past trauma, stress, and tension a place to be expressed and released. When you dance, you let go of the old and open up to new ways of being.

The first Key-Code and core principle of Heal Through Dance is free-form movement.

Free-form movement means that you move and dance without choreography or steps to learn or follow. Without choreography, the dancer can find new ways of moving, which translates into new ways of being and thinking in daily life.

Ecstatic Dance is based on free-form movement. The word ecstatic comes from the Latin word ekstasis meaning to become unstuck or free from blocks and to flow into a more natural state of being in relationship to the Universe. It means to disconnect from the mental modifications of the mind and move into a state of trance or pure being. In a state of trance, without the mind, the body’s innate wisdom comes to the foreground and takes over in our conscious awakening and healing processes.

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Dance is about movement. Ecstatic