{"id":597,"date":"2010-09-01T19:01:29","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T19:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/101daysofpleasure.com\/?p=597"},"modified":"2013-05-04T02:32:54","modified_gmt":"2013-05-04T02:32:54","slug":"day-89-ecstatic-dance-for-pleasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/101daysofpleasure.com\/?p=597","title":{"rendered":"Day 89- Ecstatic Dance for Pleasure"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My Partner and I Dancing During Pregnancy<\/p><\/div>\n

I love to dance.\u00a0 When I have been down in the dumps, when I have been heart broken, when I have been high on love, when I need to go within- I dance.\u00a0 Ecstatic Dance has been incredibly healing for me and the dance community in Los Angeles has been a sanctuary.\u00a0 Dancing in this way is a form of prayer for me. \u00a0 I used to dance at least 2 times a week, sometimes 5.\u00a0 Since having my son (1 year and 5 months ago)\u00a0 I have been to dance a total of\u00a0maybe 5 times.<\/p>\n

Today is my partner’s birthday and his wish was to go to dance with me. We met on the dance floor, our bodies falling into each other, me surrendering completely and life has never been the same since.\u00a0 Today, I wanted the dance to be about pleasure.\u00a0 How could I move my body for the most pleasure?\u00a0 The music was already playing when we arrived.\u00a0 I started with stretching and massaging my body deeply.\u00a0 My partner approached me for a dance.\u00a0 Our bodies are now familiar to each other and we can fall in easily, but today I was struggling.\u00a0 It’s this struggle between my old life, when I wasn’t a mom, when i lived so freely.\u00a0 His body on mine did bring me back into the moment.\u00a0 I love contact dancing. It’s like a body to body massage.\u00a0 It feels amazing.\u00a0 I got back to being with myself.\u00a0 it was about an hour into the dance when they played this great tribal song that brought my body into a familiar movement.\u00a0 My hips wiggles, my wrists twirled, I spun in happiness.\u00a0 That was what I remembered, I used to Belly Dance, I even led a Drum and Dance troupe for awhile.\u00a0 I made a note to myself to find some Belly Dance classes.\u00a0 That would bring me pleasure.\u00a0 Unfortunately, that was the height of my ecstasy and I would come down with a big crash.\u00a0 It was like the dance just reminded me of what I was missing, or the life I no longer lead.\u00a0 It is time to get back to myself, but I left feeling unclear of what that is?\u00a0 I guess it all comes down to what it is that I really want out of life.\u00a0 I am a pleasure seeker, but I also seek stillness, meditation, going in.\u00a0 I invite myself into a deeper commitment of personal practice, a commitment to self-care, self-love and self-discovery.<\/p>\n

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I love to dance.\u00a0 When I have been down in the dumps, when I have been heart broken, when I have been high on love, when I need to go within- I dance.\u00a0 Ecstatic Dance has been incredibly healing for me and the dance community in Los Angeles has been a sanctuary.\u00a0 Dancing in this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,187],"tags":[231,230,228,227,229],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video","category-101-days-reports","tag-belly-dance","tag-dance","tag-ecstatic-dance","tag-erotic-dance","tag-healing-dance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/101daysofpleasure.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/101daysofpleasure.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/101daysofpleasure.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/101daysofpleasure.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/101daysofpleasure.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/101daysofpleasure.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":798,"href":"http:\/\/101daysofpleasure.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions\/798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/101daysofpleasure.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/101daysofpleasure.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/101daysofpleasure.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}