This is a longer video re-introducing the innerdance process as it continues to evolve and grow. The innerdance is both a process and a consciousness. It is also a global community. Beyond an understanding of innerdance as a modality or practice, innerdance is a language. It connects us to ways of life, ways of being, and processes for change, growth, and expanded consciousness. If you didn't have to do anything, what would you be? What would you become? How would you remember yourself more fully? How would you find yourself WHOLE? There are no answers - only infinite possibilities The innerdance is an intuitive and organic state of expanded consciousness that acts as a gateway or portal towards healing and a deeper understanding of who and what we are. Music is used to support the activation of specific brainwave patterns that stimulate a waking dream-like state of lucid consciousness. Basic and individual sessions can be as simple as finding a playlist, laying down, closing the eyes and trusting the process. In more advanced group sessions, electronic playlists, live instruments, sound toys and voice combine to create an incredibly immersive sound journeying experience. For the last 8 years, Serena Olsen has been a global facilitator and trainer of innerdance processes worldwide. Serena's work weaves innerdance beyond a modality or practice and integrates it as a way of life. She has supported the birth and sustainability of several innerdance communities in various parts of Asia and the Americas and has worked with thousands of people from all different backgrounds and walks of life. Her progressive approach to sound creation has catalyzed a new wave of innerdance listening - soundscape journeying experiences available to everyone - whether at home, with friends, in group sessions, festivals, trainings or online community gatherings. Find out more: www.innerdancetrust.com Credit for video clips: Stefanie Lira - Innerdance Koh Phangan Callie Sorenson - Innerdance Americas Sheli Shahadan - Innerdance Malaysia (A New Earth) Pi Villaraza - Innerdance Founder

A video explaining a little bit about what inner dance is, how it's structured, the musical waves, the breathwork, and why it looks weird, for those who don't know much about it.

It is often difficult to describe in words or even videos what happens during an inner dance teacher training process. In one of the sharings, a participant felt the planets lined up. In this case, the planets are these people from Malaysia, Africa, Australia, France, North America, Taiwan, Sweden and the Philippines, and that those planets decided to line up perfectly for one special moment, a moment of trust, intuition and surrender. That alignment can be called many things. Synchronicity, magic, healing, oneness, the one word that might likely resonate fully between these amazing planets that breathe and walk their heart's pathways of perception, is Family. Yes, that's what it felt like. A Family of Light, this Inner Dance Family. And that Family extended beyond the walls of Cohiba 37 or the sands of Boracay, inclusive Family, the process spoke of community that transcended all color, thought and form, which embraced everyone and everything. And because of that, there was an undeniable energy, a transcendent love and timeless learnings. And transformations that have been reverberating in many and all existence since that special time. This event was made entirely possible from the efforts of Mo-Ching Yip who contributed so much of her valuable time and energies freely out of love and service. Thank you Mo-Ching. Your pure vibrations reverberate throughout all this. Love.

Students joined us for a full two-day innerdance experience which took us all on a journey into our thoughts, minds, consciousness, and the spaces beyond. Although the students didn’t have nearly as much to share verbally within the dialogue circle after their first innerdance experience, it was clear in their pictures and writings that so much had been happening during their session. On the second day, we engaged the students in partner work where they took turns facilitating for each other in pairs. This was a totally different experience for them. The full two day process was full of laughter, smiles, happiness, and joy. The students learned about meta-cognition, trust, synchronicity, connectedness, and most of all, how to create change through their own waking dreams.

"The need to provide for my family takes me away from them." A beautiful sharing of two women and their stories of struggles in becoming a good mother. These are the STORIES OF THE SHIFT. Why so much competition? What is really significant in my life? Am I good enough to be a mother? Am I good enough as a wife? How do I break from this system? "The Dance, the surrender, is something you have to do everyday." == This was taken during the inner dance healing session in Balamban, one of the beautiful provinces in Cebu, Philippines. "The Inner Dance process peels away the layers of limitation, mask by mask, skin upon skin, fear by fear. We then see what is beneath all the systems of thought that covers up the actual consciousness of our heart." - Pi Villaraza == More information about this healing process: http://cognitiveresonance.org http://innerdanceprocess.org http://wholenesscenter.net

This video introduces this series of screencasts that documents the innerdance process, building on the many frameworks that come up during the monthly Energy School courses that take place in different places. For more information on the journey, visit www.innerdanceprocess.org.

The first Inner Dance teacher's training held this year, though, spontaneous, essentially elaborates what our year in Palawan and our travels will be like in 2012. Given that Maia Earth Village sustains itself as an intentional raw food, gardening and healing community, we feel ourselves coming into purer, relentless service to others. The training is called as it is, though it is actually not something you learn, but rather, remember. The remembrance of sacred movement and kundalini energy, though not essentially a cognitive affair, is nonetheless, a Conscious process. It is one thing to experience inner dance. To awaken to it with a clear understanding of how and why it happens within emotional, psychological, physiological frameworks does not subtract the intense magic awakening process holds for those who are familiar with essential surrendering of the ego to that much bigger space we call the subconscious. We will likely be directing the bulk of our waking existence this year to the delivery of inner dance as an experiential and as a cognitive process this year. We will be giving courses in Asia, in various parts of the Philippines and regularly in Maia Earth Village in Palawan. Alongside many others who are becoming very adept at the workings of awakening process from a genuine self-initiatory standpoint. We are the Universe. It is so simple. Science itself has proven it. We are made of the sterner stuff of stars. We know that, but to experience it is what we are searching for. It is not that difficult. We merely need to come to an agreement with the part of us that folds the universe up as our minds and our bodies - our egos. The science, art and spirit behind it is not complex. It is applicable to healing, nutrition, psychology, social dimensions, and even the economy.To harness our internal energies effectively, yet straightforwardly and within absolute simplicity is conceivably more practical that the daily grind people often submit to, but do not have to granting we base our everyday decisions on the actual energetic movement of the universe. We do not have to keep consuming external energy (which takes tremendous corresponding internal life force to digest) to sustain ourselves and our families. We merely need to conserve what's already inside us, and to convert what can be shifted from trapped tension in our minds and bodies into the very power we can use to fulfill our highest potentials as love and light-filled beings. This year, group coursework will be directed to parents (Conscious Birthing and Conscious Parenting), companies, LGU's, NGO's and schools that wish to come into an essential and vibratory balance. The Inner Dance in application to community organizing, conflict management, ecological transition initiatives, eco-village design, visioning process, and any other application real life might have to energy principles is called Maia Conscious Curriculum. Maia is a twelve-petaled mandala that observes life in its complexity through seven higher potentials within social and individual human experience. It's vision is to bring out the highest potential in all people. For more information on future activities, visit www.conscious-trance.com. The next teacher training is in Makati on two weekends in February. You can also email the following addresses: Pi Villaraza - kalimata777@gmail.com Daniw Arazola - iamdaniw@gmail.com Juanita Naidoo - we.are.all.one.ph@gmail.com

This was one of the first documentations of inner dance around the Philippines in the years 2008 and 2009. The scenes are from various places in Luzon and Mindanao and were edited in Makilala in North Cotabato. The man interviewed is Bong de le Torre on his birthday during a trip to Pampanga in North Luzon, when he was sharing his thoughts on the awakening process in the Philippines.