The movement and dance takes place everywhere and constantly, like a universe dancing constantly, creating, transforming. It manifests itself in the movements of our cells, the pulsing of our blood the rhythm of our breathing. In the rising and falling of the waves of the sea, the changing of the seasons, the waking of the day and the sleeping of the night. It is connected to our experiences and feelings, and they affect the way we move and perceive the world. Movement is life. Life is movement, change, pulse, flow, rhythm, breathing, rising, and is also present in stopping.
Lomi Lomi Nui is a massage performed in a dance, to the rhythm of music with the support of the breath (the more we deepen our breath, the more we release our body and then we can easily and truly connect with a human being).
This dance name is Fregate.
In Hawaii a Frigate is a beautiful bird that flies and never feels tired. This tireless bird is a symbol of the best values that should be communicated during the whole Lomi Lomi Nui ceremony.
Dancing around the table like a Frigate bird is of great importance. You can ask this question why?
The Frigate/flying dance is one of the basic tools we learn to release flow, strengthen our bodies, settle with our own weight and give movement its proper direction. It is a meditation in movement that energizes our heart field and strengthens the field of the person experiencing the massage .
When the dance and the dancer become one, when the lead takes over feeling and presence, the massage ceases to be a massage. In its place comes the dance of life, in which the person being massaged leads, however is not actively leading. Rather, it is a dialogue – a meeting without words and its basis is presence and listening.
Frigate/flying expresses itself in an infinite movement that connects all directions and the symbolic future-that which we cannot see, with the past, that which is stored in the memory of our body to consequently settle in the here and now.
Body posture and breath are key to frigate dancing.
Polynesian body posture in the Frigate Dance with bands of knees and hips at the head level helps to start the flow of energy, which is called kindling the inner fire, and then we can transfer this energy further.
Moving the hands while dancing also has a symbolic meaning. When we raise our hands, we open ourselves to what comes from the universe, when we point our hands down, we open ourselves to what comes from the earth, when we cross our hands at the height of our heart, we connect it all in our heart and pass it on from heart to other people.
I encourage you to set up your intention every morning and become a Frigate dancer to start the day in full strenght and blissfully!