Margie Velázquez Dance: November 2011

Dance and Holistic Arts Sanctuary

~Contemporary Mystical Silk Road World Dances~Sufi & Sufiana Ritual World Dances~

~Dance Initiative Program on Hindustani Classical Dance - Kathak~

~Devotional Flamenco Gypsy Ritual Dance~Andalusian Hadra Ritual Dance~Mystical Persian Veil Ritual Dance~Dakini Yogini Tantric Embodiment Ritual Dance Meditation~Ancestral Martial Movement Dance Meditation~Sufi Rutual Dance Meditation~

~Reiki-Kundalini Meditation Ritual~Shakta Devi Meditation Ritual~Luna Collective Womens Circle~Holistic & Ayurvedic Beauty Rituals~Aromatherapy~

~Shakti Kundalini Yoga~Raj Power Yoga~Naad Yoga~

~Community Awakening and Empowerment~Ancient Holistic Treasures to Enrich and Heal our Modern Living~Souk-Bazaar Collections~

These Mystical Dances and Practices are inspired from a variety of ancient traditions that have existed for centuries and are being conserved and practiced throughout the world. We practice sacred art traditions rooted from places such as China, India, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkey, Egypt, North/West Africa & Spain (Iberia), inspiring a world-bonding consciousness through the arts of dance.

As we prepare to receive transmission of ancient tradition and ritual, practice meditation and other sequences, we dance and hold sacred space in unity, we become more self empowered using consciously styled movement, we are also invoking an offering to heal and awaken our minds and bodies using holistic movement methodologies, and we are attuning into a higher vibration of our Divine Femenine and Sacred Masculine energies as well as strengthening the vibrations of our Sacred Universe.

We are called to connect deeper within ourselves we find to realize we are ready to bloom as a stronger flower and harvest a richer fruit to offer it each day to our surrounding communities, to our families, to nature, and to the elements. We are like flowers in a garden, each flower is unique. Each flower grows and has its own unique beauty and fragrance.

To be within and feel our senses, to offer our gifts to our surroundings, and to feel that just being there is not only empowering but transforming, as we participate in combinations of activities such as dance, ancient divine femeninity and sacred masculine rituals, meditation, yoga philosophy, ancient martial art meditations, and theatrical arts in a sacred environment is not only transforming but it gives a deeper meaning to our existence and presence as a person, thus gives us a more empowered awakening and reinforces our quality of life and self worth. Most important, it gives us the assurance that we can give out to others as we transcend beyond obstacles and limitations.

Breathing in the fragrance of the flower bud, the flower bloom, and embodying the delicious taste of the emerging fruit; our bodies, our minds, our hearts, are called to offer the fruit. It is the life force; the Flower Blossom. To acknowledge the selfless giving of a seed, its transformation to flower bud, its gentle blooming petals with exquisite fragrance, and the shedding of its petals after its beauty was offered and the magical transformation into a fruit; to feel that you are the same as this seed to this world, can be a transforming and deep experience.

To reach this self realization of awakening but also to reach an empowerment through self consciousness of your life force's worth, and what this is within you can be described as part of the Azahaarsham community experience.

Just bring your open heart, a water bottle, and your smile to class.

Azahaarsham is:

A name of Flower Blossoms... A name of Breath...

An Invitation to transform into Embodied Dancer, Yogi or Yogini and Embodied Being, a sensory of culture and art as sacredness, and community/world bonding.

For Yourself and the Universe around you, in Unity, Beauty, Peace, and Empowerment.

Classes and Workshops are facilitated by:

Margie Velázquez,
Azahaarsham Dance Mystical & Wellness Arts Atelier Founder & Creative Director, Holistic Movement & Sacred World Dance Instructor, Guru Initiated Shakta Yogini & Reiki Master Teacher.

Classes are also offered in Spanish

e-mail: margievelazquezdance@gmail.com

international skype: Azahaarsham

for more info within U.S.: 1.310.343.5023

~MUSINGS~

Friday, November 11, 2011

Sultan of Love

http://youtu.be/9-XkiEaichQ

Sweetly parading you go my soul of soul, go not without me;
life of your friends, enter not the garden without me.
Sky, revolve not without me; moon, shine not without me;
earth travel not without me, and time, go not without me.
With you this world is joyous, and with you that world is joyous;
in this world dwell not without me, and to that world depart not without me.
Vision, know not without me, and tongue, recite not without me; glance behold not without me, and soul, go not without me.
The night through the moon's light sees its face white; I am light, you are my moon, go not to heaven without me.
The thorn is secure from the fire in the shelter of the roses face:

you are the rose, I your thorn;

go not into the rose garden without me.
I run in the curve of your mallet when your eye is with me;
even so gaze upon me, drive not without me, go not without me.
When, joy, you are companion of the king, drink not without me; when, watchman, you go to the kings roof, go not without me.
Alas for him who goes on this road without your sign; since you,

O signless one, are my sign, go not without me.
Alas for him who goes on the road without my knowledge;
you are the knowledge of the road for me;

O road-knower, go not without me.Others call you love,

I call you the Sultan of Love;

O you who are higher than the imagination of this and that,

go not without me.

Rumi

~Persia~

Thursday, November 10, 2011

You

You are the master alchemist.

You light the fire of love
in earth and sky
in heart and soul
of every being.

Through your love
existence and nonexistence merge.
All opposites unite.
All that is profane
becomes sacred again.

Rumi

~Persia~

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Union

As is above,

So is below.

Thoth

~Egypt~

Monday, November 7, 2011

Flowing Waters

http://youtu.be/bAl1Bi3Gf9A

The touch of

Sacred Water

is something we crave

at times.

We wish to be cleansed

of our sins,

misdeeds,

and even our own past at times.

Anonymous

~In reference to Water as all Sacred Source of Life and Divine Manifest~

Divan

http://youtu.be/KGyTMQQfS8c

When we enter the excitement of the Night

We'll amass gifts from the Ocean of the Night.

The Night veils the unseen witness from sight

We cannot compare the Day to the Night.

Sleep will not want, from sleep will take flight

He who has never seen the pisturesque Night.

Many a pure soul and Heart that is bright

Employed in service to the demands of the Night.

Night is an empty pot, black, contrite,

if never tasted delicacies of the Night.

This journey is long, God speed our plight

As we traverse the length and width of the Night.

From worldly affairs my hands are tied tight

Till twilight, I am in the Hands of the Night.

Commerce and trade are the work of Daylight

Of different taste are the Trades of the Night.

You have reached Solar Heights

Sun jealous of you, while begs for you the Night.

Rumi

Divan-e-Shams 39

~Persia~

Sunday, November 6, 2011

Eternity

http://youtu.be/2JvRj_Y4eSU

The Rose was

not looking for the morning;

on its branch, almost inmortal

it looked for something other.

The Rose was

not looking for wisdom, or for shadow;

the edge of flesh and dreaming,

it looked for something other.

The Rose was

not looking for the rose; was

unmoving in the heavens;

it looked for something other.

Lorca

~Spain~

Saturday, November 5, 2011

The Music

http://youtu.be/138CwbWms8U

My friend,

The stain of the Great Dancer has penetrated my body.

I drank the Cup of Music

and I am hopelessly Drunk.

Mirabai

~India~

Friday, November 4, 2011

Praise

http://youtu.be/v7pByldzMvE

To Praise is

to praise how one

Surrenders

to the Emptiness.

Rumi

~Persia~

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Wine

I drink no ordinary wine

but Wine of Everlasting Bliss,

As I repeat my Mother Kali's name;

It so intoxicates my mind that people take me to be drunk!

First, My teacher gives Molasses

for the making of the Wine;

My longing is the ferment

to transform it.

Knowledge, the maker of the Wine,

prepares it for me then;

and when it is done,

my mind imbibes it from the bottle of the Mantra.

Taking the Mother's Name to make it pure.

She is Mother Kali.

Sri Ramprasad

~India~

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Beauty

http://youtu.be/VsRUplkHdaQ

Beauty surrounds us,

But usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.

Rumi

~Persia~

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

One Light

What are "I" and "You"?

Just lattices

In the niches of a lamp

Through which the One Light radiates.

"I" and "You" are the veil

Between heaven and earth;

Lift this veil and you will see

How all sects and religions are one.

Lift this veil and you will ask---

When "I" and "You" do not exist

What is mosque?

What is synagogue?

What is fire temple?

Shabistari

~Persia~