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At the end of the 2003 six-week Movements Intensive, I and my co-leader, Zia Lambrou, asked the participants to distill their experience into the form of a Haiku; here are some of them.

 

Inside the cyclone
I meet a friend
That looks just like me
But headless
- Rajani

Been to the peak
Drowned in the valley
At the end Basho's Pool
Reflecting the moon
- Dhyanprem

Like a drop of water in the
ocean I lose myself in
the dances
- Zia

 

I lost myself in the midst
Of full moon night
Wondering from there to here
Hearing the whispering
Be a light unto myself
- Prafula

 

 

 

I ask the cyclone
From where you come?
He just blow me away.
I ask the breeze
To where you go?
She just kiss me away
- Akeed

Dancing through the clouds
Through the clouds
Feeling the ground
Underneath my feet
More and more
Suddenly the sunlit peak….
- Premin
Seeing the gap of being or not being
In clarity and confusion
Wonderfulness
- Preyas
The wind is blowing strong
Cats scratching at my feet
It never has been any other way
 - Amira

The melody of music like rain falling
I see hands and feet moving
In harmony
Tell me, who is dancing
this harmony
 - Bhalia

Just watch the dancing
Shadow on the marble
Buddha appear and disappear
- Akeed

 

 

Dancing on, movement
And dust raising up
So fast it has been
So silent ending up
- Giovanna

Sweet summer of hurricaine
Swept away all it can
Leaving nothing but
The womb of I am
 - Dhyanprem

Arrow shooting out of eyes
Fire dancing
Still
- Sandipa

Be ready right, wrong
I can, I can't, I won't, I will,
Fulcrum, midline and stillness.
Oh! God, I made a mistake!
Cyclone, being, center remembering,
forgetfulness.
Breathe in and breath out
- Bhalia

A date with the devil -
Vulnerable, unprotected,
Uncertain, alone.
As the eye (I) of my I's,
He blessed me with a koan:
Still as I move, silent as I speak,
Be-ing in essence
Is 'I am' at home?!
 - Anuradha

Far away
Wind in bamboo leaves
Again, here and now
-Deepaka

Noises come from all over
Confusion....Where to go...
Moving................Here!
- Smaran

in out
in in out
out out out in
- Rajani

A leaf surrenders to a wind
As palm to palm
The wind is gone
- Victor

Lend oneself to
Weaken
Surrender
- Victor

Full moon night
Who is dancing?
Circles in the empty space
- Sandipa

Suddenly I hear my name
"Imano! Wake up!"
- Imano

Lotus posture
Sounds in the wind
Tell me: Who is in?
- Pramada

Stirring thoughts, coming going
In rest; movements, silence
Endless, no time
THOUGHTS coming, going
MOVEMENTS starting, ending
SILENCE eternal, home
- Vimala


 

1,2,3,4,
5 and 6 and 7,8
Somebody dancing
- Dhanya

Feeling everything
She is dancing
Alone together
- Elena

I am leaving
Says who
Leaves dancing in the wind
- Sandipa

The mind tries to figure out
The mind wants to control
- Let the body take over
And the movement will happen by itself
- Anandita

Thirty days planned
God was kind
I melted
- Rekha

Winds come
Leaves fall
Dancers stand up
- Imano

Sound of rain
Close my eyes
Bird sing a sound of silence
- Akeed
Music: Gurdjieff/De Hartmann 'Sayyid Chant & Dance' from the CD 'Hidden Sources' by Alessandra Celletti