Collection: Dance

East Wind Moved Hearts: Performance Feedback

15 July 2020

Read the responses of people who watched my Healing Dance Performance East Wind: The Story of My Ectopic Pregnancy.

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East Wind is a video performance in which I dance the story of my ectopic pregnancy in 2019. I visited the building blocks of the experience, including: 
  • realising that I was pregnant
  • thinking I miscarried
  • feeling that something was still going on
  • sharp pain knifing through me when my fallopian tube broke 
  • the rush to get to the operation theatre in time
  • the slow recovery from nearly 3 liters of blood loss 
  • the journey back to wholeness on physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels. I call this dancing through oceans of grief, deserts of despair, into the volcano of rage and finally the reconnection with the Mystery
  • finding and integrating the wisdom gifts of the experience

Some of the feedback...

I literally received tons of comments of people who watched the video (which was first available through another channel before I posted it on YouTube).

Here you can read some responses...
Truly touched by what I saw. Reading about it is one thing. Seeing you dance it is something else. Vulnerability. Feminine Essence. You are going deep, delving all the way down.

Watching one month later, still moved and impressed. Grateful to have contributed. ♥️

Stef Vink (who did the music)

Thank you for sharing with us the link to your deeply moving dance. It is a very powerful expression of your experience with your ectopic pregnancy and touched me a lot. I wish you comfort, strength and joy for your ongoing journey of recovery. 

Laura Shannon

OMG Eline just finished watching the video! I was crying the whole time!!! I felt you deeply!! Very inspiring to witness your expression to your healing. Immense gratitude for expressing your experience in Dance.
I can see myself dancing my story!

Samar

It feels as visiting very intimate moments in your process. I deeply believe that it is through our own vulnerability that we open up the space for others to step into their vulnerability.  So I am receiving this as a gift and I also see it could be a fertile space for opening up other's passage through their grief, empowerment, etc in loss.  I do see it as artistic and shamanic. You are a beautiful mover and beautiful to watch and there is a vulnerability that is precious. Thank you for this

Celeste Snowber

A moving dance, still, soaring and so beautiful. It touched me deeply, to feel the pain you dance. You dance so beautifully.

José

Beautiful, courageous, tender and honest. Having experienced miscarriage and a brief ectopic pregnancy, I see myself in your dancing....I am moved. Thank you for making and sharing this important work. 💞

Lisa

Thanks I’m in tears watching it. So touched at your bravery for sharing this. I feel blessed being able to watch it. Prayers in motion. May this ‘Real, Raw and Vulnerable’ become the new world tribe.xxx

Wayne

Thank you for sharing this healing journey with us. There are so many ways to help us return from the underworld and you have demonstrated what works best for you… All the elements you used can be used by any of us to help us heal as long as we know about them… 

Sara Wright

“I felt I was literally ‘fighting’ my way back to wholeness. It wasn’t linear, it wasn’t neat.” Thank you for reminding us that our paths can be incredibly chaotic and messy, and yet, still we rise! 

Duann Kierr

Dear Eline, I feel your dance in me and the tears start to flow again. Your dance touched me so deeply. It is like when your soul leaves an imprint, a recognition on mine. Your dance freed something in me, you expressed for me what my body is no longer able to express and for that I am infinitely grateful. You have created a work of art of earth-shattering simplicity, held by Stef's music and the loving and witnessing eye of Erica. I hope that your video goes viral around the world, that women and men are touched by it. How many times in our lives, figuratively speaking, do we get pregnant and cannot fully consume it. Your strength, your courage, your vulnerability, your standing in you and moving in times of storm is inspiration. I sincerely wish you all the best for your dream to give birth your experiences in a format. The sun’s rising in this very moment, love

Angela

I can’t thank you enough for the courage and the love for us it took to share this journey of descent and return with us. 

You model what it means to be a healer/shaman/priestess – not only did you do the work of healing yourself – a great gift to begin with, for when we choose life, go into the underworld to be stripped of ourselves and then climb back up regain joy, we do it for all of us, whether we know it or not. But to then bring the work we’ve done into consciousness and consciously craft pain and sorrow into art – that truly completes the heroine’s journey.  
 
I saw Elizabeth Kubler-Ross’s work in your dance as well as Gabrielle Roth’s. It gave me a tiny glimpse into your creative process which was fascinating and rewarding in itself – so many levels on which you shared. 
 
Mother’s always carry an enormous potential for grief in our consciousness. at least I do. Your dance eased that fear a little, let me shake myself a little free-er. Thank you. 

Christine Irving

Dear Eline, thank you so much for sharing your performance. Yesterday I started watching and I needed to stop again and again to resource myself. Just now I have watched it uninterruptedly and I am feeling profoundly touched and somehow matched.

I don`t have a story of early pregnancy loss but birthing my second child in March 2018 became life threatening to both of us. 

I am still going through times of deepest despair and exhaustion that followed those moments of vast expansion.
Thank you so much for inspiring me to literally move and dance and transform those stories.

Julia

The video is a testimony to the tremendous capacity of dance to mend what was broken and retrieve what was lost. 

Please be aware that viewing the performance may trigger an emotional response. If you think this likely you can watch it together with a trusted person, and/or ensure that you have someone to call afterward.

I hope this healing dance nourishes and inspires you.

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