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About Wild Divine Dance
Conscious dance • embodied awareness • sacred connection • wild nature
Wild Divine Dance with Shashi Salma Darling is an invitation to move, feel, awaken and come more fully alive — in intimate relationship with ourselves, each other and the breathing, dreaming world we belong to.
Through conscious dance, movement and meditation, we enter the quiet wisdom of the body and listen for what is moving beneath the surface. There are no steps to learn and no right way to move. Come as you are, surrender to your own rhythm, and allow the dance to reveal what is waiting to be felt.
Rooted in movement awareness, Buddhist meditation, psychotherapy and ecopsychology, the practice embraces the whole of our experience — body, heart, mind, spirit, relationship and our living connection with the Earth.
We dance indoors and out in wild places, exploring the meeting of inner and outer landscapes. Through movement, sensation, rhythm, stillness and relationship, we open to the body's ancient knowing — discovering greater freedom of expression, presence, creativity and connection.
At its heart is an invitation to remember what we know deeply within: that we are innately interconnected.
Through breath and body, through one another and the earth beneath our feet, we may rediscover a sacred sense of belonging — to ourselves, to each other and to the vast, living web of existence.
Come as you are.
Move what is.
Listen for what wants to unfold.
About Shashi Salma Darling
MA, PgDip, BA (Hons), DMP, ADMP
I’m a conscious dance facilitator, Dance Movement Psychotherapist, dharma and mindfulness teacher, facilitating movement and meditation since 1998. My work weaves together conscious dance, embodied awareness, Buddhist meditation, psychotherapy and ecopsychology.
I developed Wild Divine Dance during my MA in Art and Ecology in 2006, inspired by many years of movement practice, meditation and therapeutic work, and by dancing with the wild landscapes of Devon, Cornwall, Dorset and Dartmoor.
At the heart of my work is an invitation to listen through the body, discover our own movement, and deepen our sense of connection and belonging — to ourselves, each other and the living world, as we open to the mystery.
