INCARNATE
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Preliminary note: this post/text is not about religions, it is about sacred spaces.
I missed letting myself disappear into sacred spaces.
Religion was very present in my upbringing.
Since I was a child, I was very involved with faith and formal religious education, with beliefs, rituals and celebrations, in devotion and in honoring something bigger, something to believe in deep inside me, beyond the visible.
Discipline, regularity, places and slow time where the divine could manifest itself and remind me of gratitude for my existence.
I was angry with my religion. For years I felt this anger, blaming what I thought was unfair and what I didn't want to happen in this world. I visited other religions and experienced myself in those places too. This anger also gradually passed, a blessing that comes from the experience that age brings with it, with the acceptance within me that it are humans who do things that cost me terribly, that humans are capable of everything and that is why I, myself can do things differently, choose differently, manifest things differently in this same existence and according to my total responsibility.
I have found many other sacred spaces also outside of churches and in visits to countless temples, many of them built by humans, and also others that I found in nature, such as waterfalls that emerge after a forest, a sunset on a silent deserted beach, a sunrise on the top of a mountain and gazes lost in the endless world of stars, a constant meditation whether in the practice of washing the dishes, in morning sitting, in mantras, in prayers, in songs that elevate the spirit and soothe the soul, that calm the heart and make me smile without me realizing it.
This huge feeling of the divine remains strong within me. An overwhelming presence that fills my inner space in surrender that "I am part of something bigger."
Throughout my life I have lost my regular practice. The act of visiting sacred spaces with full cadence and reverence. A discipline, a life of training as a regular action of connection, which brings me the link with something that goes far beyond myself. Physical spaces, where I feel good and accepted, without any connection to religions, connected to something greater and in safe environments where a sense of the divine, of a universal god that connects everything and everyone without exclusions and where these divine energies can whisper what needs to be heard, what needs to be seen in each one of us.
When I refer to Incarnate as a sacred space, this is what I intend to recover in myself.
To open a space every week where this connection with something greater is invited to arrive and remain.
Through welcoming people upon arrival, through sharing how we arrive. Through silent listening and the space that goes from me to the other person, from me to my own heart and to what I am feeling.
From the weekly Dance, listening to the music, letting the bodies surrender to the impulses that come to through the sounds, harmonies, beats and tones, colors, lights and contact with the ground with bare feet, with hands and arms that roll in the air and on the ground as the spontaneous creation invites, this organic information that comes from the cells that reserve the ancestral memory of Being.
To celebrate life and death, to allow the head to be arranged as a whole, close to the other parts of the body.
In the end, a Human sharing. In any format, with or without sounds.
All this without alcohol, drugs, stimulants or sedatives, touching only with permission and with clear limits of what is or is not ok so that the space is safe and flowing.
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• October 2nd, 23rd and 30th at 10am Portugal Time
• October 14th and 21st at 3pm
• November 13th and 27th at 10am
• November 4th and 18th at 3pm
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• 11th and 25th at 10am
• December 16th and 30th at 3pm
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