An Introduction to Movement Meditation

To make sense of the movements of life, many ancient traditions use paradigms and models that in English are translated as “energy.” The Hindu traditions often use the term Shakti, that without which nothing happens. This refers to the feminine aspect of the Divine. In ancient China, they spoke of the Dao that you walk and of qi, a paradigm of configured energies that was simultaneously spiritual, physical, and psychological. All these many ways of attending to the movements of life, things, people, and events share something very important. In the words of the pioneering modern dancer, Martha Graham, “Movement never lies.” If your practice is successful, with whichever variation of movement meditation you choose, something begins to happen. It is not necessarily flashy. It’s just that the situations you encounter, the people you meet, and even the everyday moments have more dimensionality to them.

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