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Dance is my native tongue, my love language. It was the vocabulary of my spirit long before I could speak. When I began technique classes at four, most of dance's sweet, natural harmonic was trained out of me. Dancing became about the body's position, the line, about performance and getting it right. About being good enough for approval and applause.

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During careers in finance, life coaching, and writing, I plastered on masculine traits, always pushing, competing, achieving, fixing, doing...even subconsciously lowering my voice in business situations to assimilate into the patriarchal culture. When I came back to dance later in life, it gifted me with a dynamic medium that helped me remember my feminine aspect and reconnect with my yin essence.

 

Dance is such a metaphor for how we live. Do you worry about getting the dance sequence right? About what others will think? Do you hold your body fearfully, tensely? Are you willing to step outside comfort zones; try something new? Are you listening to what your body is asking for? Do we take what is presented to us and make it our own; what's right for our own nature? 

 

I moved to Asheville nine years ago in order to remember who I was, and Sensu Dance was born. At first, I clung to how I thought a dance class should be organized and taught. Overtime as Asheville and her people worked their magic, Sensu Dance became a catalytic powerspace of somatic exploration and expression.  As Sensu transformed, I was found. As I was freed, Sensu Dance expanded. Each dynamically fed and grew the other.​

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This soul-embodied dance enables me to move beyond my mind, cultural conditioning, and generational patterning to fully express my true nature. It has activated my sensuality, so I live in tune with my body, wisdom, and senses. In recent years, I have literally danced my Self out through my skin and into the World. I have danced myself free!

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-Sharah Saltzgiver