{"id":231,"date":"2014-02-07T10:55:52","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T10:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shaktisoul.co.uk\/?page_id=231"},"modified":"2015-08-05T09:23:12","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T09:23:12","slug":"the-birth-of-shakti-dance-origenes-del-shakti-dance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/shaktisoul.co.uk\/index.php\/the-birth-of-shakti-dance-origenes-del-shakti-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"The birth of Shakti Dance\/Origenes del Shakti Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #cc99ff;\">THE BIRTH OF SHAKTI DANCE<\/span><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shakti Dance has been developing and evolving since the early 90\u2019s by Sara Avtar Oliver, life-long dancer and over 20 years Kundalini Yoga practitioner and teacher.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shaktisoul.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Sara-SD-e1391895161121.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/shaktisoul.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Sara-SD-e1391895161121-186x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sara SD\" width=\"186\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Since her late teens, Kundalini Yoga and dance became the touchstones of Sara\u2019s daily life and the alchemy began to happen. Her dance took elements from the yoga and her yoga practice became aesthetically honed and freely fluid through her dance practice. Dance and yoga grew naturally closer and weaved together through the spontaneous and enjoyable daily practice\u2026and so the discipline of Shakti Dance came to life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The systemization of the exercises and principles of movement in Shakti Dance arose through both an experiential and rational understanding of the energetics involved in Kundalini Yoga, and on July 31st, 2002 Yogi Bhajan wrote to Sara Avtar Kaur about the discipline Shakti Dance, indicating this body-affirmative approach, saying: \u201cBuild your ecstasy through movement and connect with your soul.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #cc99ff;\"><em><strong>Waking up to life<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[SPANISH]<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #cc99ff;\"><strong>ORIGENES \u00a0DEL \u00a0SHAKTI \u00a0DANCE<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shakti Dance se fue desarrollando y evolucionando desde principios de los 90 por Sara Avtar Olivier, bailarina de profesi\u00f3n y practicante y profesora de Kundalini Yoga por m\u00e1s de 20 a\u00f1os.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shaktisoul.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Sara-SD-e1391895161121.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/shaktisoul.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Sara-SD-e1391895161121-186x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sara SD\" width=\"186\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Ya desde su adolescencia,\u00a0la danza y el Kundalini Yoga fueron para Sara sus puntos de referencia diairos, y la alquimia entre las dos empez\u00f3 a suceder. Su baile empez\u00f3 a tomar elementos del yoga, y a su vez su pr\u00e1citca de yoga se volvi\u00f3 mas fluida y est\u00e9tica.<br \/>\nEl baile y el yoga empezaron a unirse y entreazarse m\u00e1s y m\u00e1s atrav\u00e9s de esa pr\u00e1ctica diaria espont\u00e1nea y gozosa&#8230;dando as\u00ed la vida a la disciplina yoguica del Shakti Dance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">La\u00a0organizaci\u00f3n de los ejercicios y los principios del movimiento en Shakti Dance han\u00a0surgido a trav\u00e9s de un entendimiento tanto experimental como racional de las\u00a0din\u00e1micas provenientes de Kundalini Yoga, y el 31de julio del 2002, Yogi Bhajan escribi\u00f3 a Sara Avtar sobre esta pr\u00e1ctica reafirmadora de la corporalidad diciendo:<br \/>\n&#8220;Crea tu \u00e9xtasis atrav\u00e9s del movimiento y conecta con tu alma&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #cc99ff;\"><em><strong>Despertando a la vida<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE BIRTH OF SHAKTI DANCE Shakti Dance has been developing and evolving since the early 90\u2019s by Sara Avtar Oliver, life-long dancer and over 20 years Kundalini Yoga practitioner and teacher. Since her late teens, Kundalini Yoga and dance became &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shaktisoul.co.uk\/index.php\/the-birth-of-shakti-dance-origenes-del-shakti-dance\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaktisoul.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaktisoul.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaktisoul.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaktisoul.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaktisoul.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shaktisoul.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaktisoul.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}