First Time
Dear friends,
One week ago, we ended our first Nobody’s Dance Retreat in Italy. Since then, I slept under the stars in the mountains next to my brother, I drove 5 hours further South through Italy, I met a lot of beautiful people, I did an interview with a ‘Nobody’s farming’ farmer, bathed in Shiva’s waterfall and melted away under the Italian sun. Now is the first evening I spend without another human being, with only a stunning view over the valley and a very loud cricket in the tree next to me.
Our first Nobody’s Dance retreat was so much what I intended it to be. It felt like we were carried by one big wave that made everything happen, that brought exactly that group of people together, that made us go deep within during the morning practice, that sometimes made us go through old pains to be healed, or feel light and playful at other times. Everything was welcome. We really lived together, made music together, took care and inspired each other. We felt connected. We felt oneness. That was the plan and it worked. As often, I didn’t feel like I was doing much myself. That’s how it is when you allow yourself to be nobody and don’t want anything else than getting out of the way for life to dance through you. Magical moments that you couldn’t conceive of, just happen.
We didn’t make pictures of our morning practice. That would be like peeing in Shiva’s waterfall. We made many other pictures. Here are just two I think I can share: one at ‘our’ river, and one of the only time we ate inside.
It was the first time; it was special. But as I also said during our last morning practice: it’s only our mind that thinks in terms of first and last. Every present moment comes into existence for the first time. Every present moment is a new-born miracle. It only takes the mind to quiet down, for that moment to be experienced as our own true nature.
Thank you so much, participants of the first Nobody’s Dance retreat. I very much look forward to being with you, participants of the next Nobody’s Dance retreat.
Here is a link to the interview about Do-Nothing Farming. I love how it is related to Nobody’s Dance.
Love to all,
Zoë
