Mindfulness-based Movement Practices
Zen Dance
Having taught at Naropa University Sumi Ryoko explores the interface between meditative movement, presence, voice and practice as it manifests in Zen dance. a way of being that breathes into lightness and grace allowing for hand, heart and hara connection of the body being, flowing into space.
Here is a video of Sumi doing one of the Zen Dances from a concert in 1996 in Boulder, CO in honour of her Zen master, Maezumi Roshi. The piece is called Dharma Light, the music is by Loreena Mckinnett, and the Altar is Kuan Yin. It is one of the Kuan Yin Dances from a series of 33 dances for all the different manifestations of Kanzeon/Kuan Yin the Buddhist Goddess of compassion who hears the cries of the world!