Sacred Sunday – Dancing the I Ching – with Tricia mary Lee (Virtual)

The Sacred Dance Guild continues to offer monthly Sacred Sunday experiences – generally on the 2nd Sunday – generally at 7:30 pm Eastern! (Special Note – December is starting 30 minutes earlier than usual – so 7:00 pm Eastern!) This program began at the beginning of the pandemic and we are delighted to continue because we CAN, not because we MUST! These free sessions are intimate, interactive and informative offerings gifted to the Sacred Dance Guild “village” by the presenter(s) and coordinated by the SDG as a way to continue to CONNECT one to another! Beginning in December 2024 we will be featuring the newly approved/accredited Sacred Dance Guild Facilitators and our first session will be led by Tricia mary Lee – from Australia!

You can register for the December session by email to pres@sacreddanceguild.org with “Sacred Sunday – I Ching” in the Subject line.

The “I Ching” (referred to as the Book of Changes) is an ancient Chinese text – perhaps the first written document in human history around 1,000 BC. It is considered a masterpiece of Chinese culture containing profound wisdom about our human existence.  For the Chinese it became a map of ′heaven and earth′, of the totality of existence. Tricia says “The I Ching Wisdom Set harmonises us as dancing energetic bodies connected to the Life force of all, without language or belief boundaries. The “I Ching” movements and connections offer a Universal language which travels Sole to Soul.”! As we dance through this month of December with the many faith and spiritual celebrations let us go back in time and explore and connect through this ancient practice! The “IChing” is like a core vocabulary and during this session you will be encouraged to to be creative and express your own “prayer”.

Many modern dancers/musicians/psychologists have used principles of the I Ching in their work in various ways – to mention a few – Merce Cunningham and John Cage, Deborah Hay, Bob Dylan, Rolando Toro/Biodanza, Li Chiao-Ping Dance, Nederlands Dance Theater, Carl Jung and so many others…. and YOU?? If time, we can share any experiences or understandings you have had with the I Ching.

Tricia mary Lee is a lifelong lover of dance and has travelled widely from her Celtic and European roots to learn and also share her passion with others, Moving to Australia in 1992 she was introduced to Indigenous and Sacred song and dance and there commenced her personal Sacred Dance quest. Discovering The Sacred Dance Guild in 2003 she attended festival as a scholarship dancer in Connecticut  in 2008, was Co-Vice President from 2017 to 2024 and is now leading the “Legacy Project” for the Sacred Dance Guild.   Organising the Bali Sacred Dance Retreats in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2022 she opens the door for women to cherish themselves in fragrance and beauty and to explore their personal journey in Sacred Dance as well as creating a sense of community and communion. She also holds regular Sacred dance workshops weaving her many strands of experience together from circle dances to Qigong, Oriental belly dance to Sacred Earth dances and contributes to Women’s retreats in her local area of South West Australia.   She has formal qualifications in Education and Training, Reflexology and Reiki, natural health and healing, Palliative Care and Sacred Dying, as well as Body Centred Movement Therapy and Dance Therapy.  “Come Dance, Be Barefoot, Blessed and Beautiful” .  Tricia also led the Sacred Dance Guild 8 week on line “Moving Through Grief” program (March – May 2022).  Tricia was inducted into the Sacred Dance Guild approved/accredited professional facilitators at a ceremony held (on line) in September 2024.

We are blessed to have Tricia gifting us her presence with a generosity of spirit that flows through the Sacred Dance Guild village