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~ foreword ~
by
Aernoudt Knecht |
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Dance & Soul Retrieval |
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It has been my
growing awareness,
through years of
facilitating trance
dances and training
people, that most of
us suffer from some
form of 'soul loss',
meaning that we have
disconnected from
essential parts of
ourselves and of
life. From the
moment of birth we
have cultivated
strategies of
survival, that have
disconnected us from
the essence of our
being. We've all
been there,
sacrificing, letting
go of our nature, of
our needs, to
survive the moment.
We all know the
drill, how to be,
how to act, and how
to disconnect, so we
will be accepted,
loved and cared for.
I have facilitated
many 'soul
retrieval' rituals,
with the specific
intention to
reconnect and
reintegrate lost
parts of our being,
and becoming whole
again. But I must
say... some of the
most profound soul
retrieval moments I
have witnessed were
spontaneous, and
quite unexpected!
Actually, any trance
dance holds this
potential, and I see
it happening again
and again. The whole
ritual, dance,
blindfold and all,
is set up in such a
way that the static
in the system clears
up, and something
original, more
authentic, more
essential, can
resurface. I often
say this for fun,
but it's true: "with
a trance dance,
you take the risk,
of a life changing
experience!"
New
& Future
Programs
In recent years I
have focused mostly
on training
professionals,
coaches, teachers,
and workshop
facilitators. I have
a new program about
soul retrieval in
the making, and I
will be offering
some seminars to
Ecstatic Dance
facilitators soon.
But I love to do
workshops and
retreats as well,
and people have been
asking me about it.
So ... I decided to
offer the first
module of the
training as a
retreat this
December: Kundalini
Trance Dance
Retreat. And,
since trance dancing
is a very tantric
practice, and there
are many ways in
wich these come
together, I am also
envisioning future
programs where they
will. For those who
wish to explore this
more deeply, stay
posted.
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Kundalini
Trance Dance Retreat
A
Journey into Essence, and Soul
Awakening! |
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Full
week, 7-day
retreat!
This retreat is a
chance, to have a
life changing
experience, and an
opportunity to
connect to ALL
layers of your
being. When you
safely, and
naturally, allow
yourself to move
into deeper layers
of meditation and
trance, you will
return home… deep
within.
7 Chakra Journey
We will make an
inner journey, in a
series of trance
dances, to energize
different aspects of
our being. Our path
of discovery will be
Kundalini, and we
will activate each
Chakra along the
way.
Daily trance dances
will be embedded in
a larger program of
meditation-, body-,
breath- and
soundwork, and there
will be time to
relax and explore
nature. This retreat
is hosted at
Wellspring,
our retreat and
training
accommodation in the
beautiful wooded
area of the Eifel,
in Germany.
Participation
includes lodging,
vegetarian meals,
coffee, tea and
refreshments at the
breaks.
This journey inside,
connecting with who
you really are, at a
deeper level, will
bring mental
clarity, healing,
creativity and
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Lodging and meals: €330 -
Program: €550 |
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Sum: €880 |
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Info
& registration:
Kundalini
Trance Dance Retreat |
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| Misirlou |
Pulp
Fiction & The Roots of Popular
Music
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Sometimes the quest for
music, for trance dance,
brings you to unexpected
places, and gets you digging
into unexpectedly deep
roots. It is well known that
many 'popular' songs are
actually 'popularized'
songs, in that they are a
reinvention of an older
tune. Let me take you down
one of these rabbit holes.
It recently struck me again
that the opening title song
of Pulp
Fiction (1994) strikes
a chord, deep within. It
seemed to me that it's
catchy, in a special and
profound way, and I
wondered. Turns out, the
song is a remastered version
of a 1962 song by Dick Dale,
the 'King of Surf Rock', and
has been popular before, as
you can see in this video of
Dick
Dales Misirlou (1963).
It's a catchy song and
melody, and there are
actually many covers,
remixes and versions of it.
One of my favorites is it's
use in Pump
It (2006) by The Black
Eyed Peas.
But again, digging a bit
deeper, it appears that Dale
introduced Misirlou to a
wider audience, but his surf
rock song was a contemporary
version of a much older
Arabic folk song. Actually,
the song was born from a
bet, by a young fan, that he
could not play a song on
only one string of his
guitar. Dale's father and
uncles were
Lebanese-American musicians,
and he remembered seeing
them play Misirlou, on one
string, on the oud. And so,
surf rock was born!
Greek,
Turkisch, Arabic,
Armenian, Persian, Indian
Misirlou is a folk song from
the Eastern Mediterranean
region, but the song's
oriental melody has been so
popular, for so long, that
many people, from Morocco to
Iraq, claim it to be a folk
song from their own country.
There are versions in
Greek (Μισιρλού),
Turkish (Mısırlı),
Arabic (مصر), and
Armenian. And there are even
Persian, Indian and Yiddish
versions of the song.
By the looks of it, the
melody has origins in the
Ottoman Empire, but the
author is unknown. We do
know that the song was
popular in Arabic, Armenian,
Greek and Jewish communities
who settled in the United
States, and that musicians
were playing it there in the
1920's. The earliest known
recording of the song is by
the rebetiko musician
Theodotos Demetriades:
Miserlou (1927).
Demetriades, an Ottoman
Greek, who was born in
Istanbul in 1897, took it to
the United States in 1921.
Trance
Dancing on Ancient
Melodies
This journey originated in
my search for music, for
trance dancing, and resulted
in the discovery of an
ancient tune, that really
resonates, and seems to be
worthwhile to explore
further. There are many
versions of it to be found,
and I can really recommend
searching your familiar
music databases for the
title Misirlou. In the
process I found a couple of
nice pearls, to take along
in my 'medicine bundle':
Misirlou - Oriental Jazz: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SMUZRElPDc
Misirlou - Santoor: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyyn3mFxuTA
Misirlou - Remix: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyiXhBk4mXk
Misirlou - Remix: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c0Fxvrx04M |
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| ~ book
review ~ |
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| Darkness
Visible |
| Awakening
Spiritual Light
through Darkness
Meditation
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Paperback |
168 Pagina's |
Destiny Books,
november 2005
ISBN10:
1594770611 |
ISBN13:
978-1594770616
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It's not a
coincidence that
most meditations,
rituals and
ceremonies begin
with someone saying:
"please close your
eyes". Originally,
and in some
indigenous societies
still, these kind of
practices begin when
the sun is set, or
when the temple or
hut is closed, and
everyone has
descended into the
woomb of darkness.
And it's not a
coincidence that we
use blindfolds, a
lot, in our dances.
Our fixation on the
light often blinds
us. Like a moth to a
flame, we can't help
ourselves. We forget
that everything is
born from the cradle
of darkness. As the
great creation myths
of the world tell
us, the true place
of impregnation and
fertilization is
darkness. It seems
to me, that although
we manifest
ourselves, and our
ego's, in the light,
we heal and
transform in
darkness.
Ross Heaven and
Simon Buxton wrote a
beautiful book about
it, in which they
show how the
experience of total
darkness, even if
only for a few
hours, creates
remarkable clarity
and mental
stillness, providing
a springboard for
creativity,
intuition and
spiritual
development.
Experience
yourself?
December
20-24, 2021
I love it, surfing
on nature's waves,
and I feel blessed
we could plan our
special Darkness
Retreat exáctly on
Midwinter (winter
solstice) this year!
A
Magical Workshop!
A Unique
Experience!
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| RiP! |
A
Remix Manifesto
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As we have seen
in the article
about the song
Miserlou, culture
often builds on
the past. In this
film, Brett Gaylor
points out that,
when it comes to
money and
ownership
(intellectual
property), the
past always tries
to control the
future. Our future
is becoming less
free, and we must
limit the control
of the past, to
build free and
creative
societies,
according to
Gaylor.
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RiP! (2008) is a
documentary film about the
changing concept of
copyright, and was created
over a period of six
years. The film features
the collaborative remix
work of hundreds of
people, who have
contributed to "the
world's first open source
documentary".
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