I currently lead two monthly dance circles in East Tennessee. Sacred Circle Dance gatherings take place in Knoxville and LongDance gatherings take place in Oak Ridge.

I have been dancing for 13 years and have facilitated sacred dance in dancecamps and workshops in the US, Canada, England, France, and Greece.

I WISH I COULD SPEAK LIKE MUSIC

Hafiz

I wish I could speak like music.

I wish I could put the swaying splendor

Of the fields into words

So that you could hold Truth

Against your body

And dance.

I am trying the best I can

With this crude brush, the tongue,

To cover you with light.

I wish I could speak like divine music.

I want to give you the sublime rhythms

of this earth and the sky's limbs.

As they joyously spin and surrender,

Surrender

Against God's luminous breath.

Hafiz wants you to hold me

against your precious Body

And dance,

Dance.

THE GIFT, Poems by Hafiz, Translations by Daniel Ladinsky,

Published by Penguin Books, 1999