What Is It?
Open Sesame Meditation Dance is a monthly Melbourne based event in which people come together to meditate, dance and express themselves.
The dance is created with the intention of helping people fully express themselves through sound and movement, to unlock and release unexpressed emotions through a journey of sound.
Charlie White, the creator of this event, conducts a band that play in the middle and facilitates the crowd through all different emotions over a 1 and a half hour sound journey.
There is no stage, no talking, and no alcohol permitted.
This is a space in which to deeply immerse ones self in a musical experience, without the distractions often encountered when witnessing live music at a regular venue.
How does it work?
The band will start you off with a warm up dance that leads into a sitting down meditation, to draw presence to breath and connect with yourself.
The audience will be taken through an oddessy of sounds, genres of music including ballads, soul, hip hop, reggae, tribal, acoustic and classic hit songs.
The facilitator directly uses a form of NLP (Neuro-Linguistic-Programming) learnt from Life Coach/Philanthropist/New York Times Best Selling Author Tony Robbins.
The music is used to enduce the different states, to open up your nervous system and help you express and go deeper into each emotional state.
The NLP is used to reprogram your non-serving beliefs and thinking patterns, to re associate them with pain, and establish positive thinking patterns and associate them with pleasure.
This work is very powerful for the sub conscious mind.
But on the lighter side of things, it is a dance, with a rocking band, and we have a great time.
Who is it for?
This is for people that want to connect with community in an authentic manner.
This is for people that love live music.
This is for people who love to dance.
This is for those who are wanting to replace non-serving thought patterns.
This is for people who want to develop their emotional awareness and ability of authentic expression through sound and movement.