Wisdom of Desire

Description

"The Wisdon of Desire" is a poetic journey into the landscape of physical, spiritual and emotional longing with all its complexities and delights. It asks fundamental questions:

* What is it you truly hunger for?
* What is the role of desire in an embodied spiritual practice?

Sanskrit chants, dance and evocative poetry all interweave with striking visual tapestries to create a complex and rich evening. The audience is carried on a journey beyond simple rejection or indulgence of desire and asked, instead, to negotiate these complex currents with a mature perspective.Religious traditions around the world have rejected desire as an obstacle on the spiritual journey. Now, modern neo-Tantric workshops invite us to directly engage, even expand, our sensual longings.

* What is the middle path?
* How do we intelligently work with the potent possibilities in this stream?

"The Wisdom of Desire" draws from the author’s long study of the Kashmiri Shaivite Yogic lineage where the world was seen to evolve out of desire and this force held great possibilities.

Equally, the psychoanalytic and humanistic psychological perspectives about our libidinal energy and what Carl Rogers called the “Innate drive towards wholeness” inform the piece. The work asks rich questions, offers layered perspectives and, ultimately, is a celebration of the human spirit.

A dance party will follow the performance, and audience members are invited to wear red. There will be a workshop the following day that will carry themes of the piece into concrete practices.

ABOUT DARCY LYON
Producer, writer and dancer, Darcy Lyon has a 16 year history in the performing arts. Her one-woman show “Breathing Fire” received rave reviews at the Seattle Fringe Festival. For seven years she toured with the Gundo-Yo dance company headed by Toshiko Namioko who was selected to open the winter Olympic Games with her dance from the ice fields of Japan.

In addition to her performance history Darcy Lyon is a certified Anusara teacher and has been leading workshops nationally and internationally for eight years. A native of Palo Alto, Darcy returned to the area after a long time in the Northwest to get her Master’s degree in Expressive Arts therapy. Darcy teaches yoga, sees clients, and lives in San Francisco.

For more information about the show, contact Ms. Lyon at [email protected]

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http://heartfirearts.com/yoga/1010_wisdom_of_desire.php

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