Intentional Dance Prayer is a spiritual dance practice where dance-prayer is central to the development of the self. The practice moves between therapeutic dance, improvisation, and spiritual quest.

We work with a field of wisdom and power created by the women who hold the circle. The circle holds a universal wisdom to which we turn. We come with longings, despair, beauty, desires, pain, pleasure, love, questions, and more to the circle. There we set an intention, a prayer, for our dance. We surrender to our prayer and let the dance unfold its message. The dance-prayer puts us in touch with the movement of the soul and spirit. Our dance becomes the prayer, and the field is answering us. The women in the circle serve the spiritual intentions of others. We move beyond personality, and we find a room of true sisterhood in the serving. We find ourselves in the same boat with so much to share, give, and receive.

The power of this process develops a clearer awareness in each woman in which we lift the work out of our personal stories to a universal and spiritual level that can touch all women.

The practice is rooted in a feminine path to awakening and has four main elements:

Touch
Movement & Dance
International Dance Prayer
Sharing & Inquiry

This spiritual dance practice is a way of aligning yourself with the synergy of body, soul, and spirit. You develop spiritual clarity through cultivating awareness and presence in the body—a true way of the feminine, where you can be a vessel for your emotions and be able to hold them and enjoy their energy. This with the aim of being present in our lives.

The practice circulates between three working phases: 1. Touch and bodywork. 2. Dance and movement. 3. Intentional Dance Prayer.

I am in the process of developing this dance practice. Together with other women, I have an exploration circle where we join in order to seek out a synergy of body and soul through praying. The women in the circle are co-creators of the practice. I have a feeling of where we are going, but HOW is something I need to find and discover together with other women. I bow to this sacred space which has taught me so much.

Anette Torgersen