Most mornings, I step out of the shower, turn on my favorite music (the sound of God) and begin to dance around my tiny Greenwich Village apartment. It's the kick-off to my yoga practice; it is my yoga practice! Soft sways to and fro, feet hips arms breath. Instantly I feel more connected to Spirit--to the big ONE!

So in the throes of Celebrating the Light, the Sun, and waking Up, one morning I dance my leg wide and toss my arms out big and then bring my feet back together. Then I leap to the other side, heart wide, arms spread, breath open, and do this a bunch of times, feeling the momentum of the breath and the movement. I am having so much fun and dub this move, One Love. One for All and All for One. I am feeling so connected. (See the video below.)

Then my body adds another move, springing one foot behind the other with bent knees, and winging my arms back and then stepping right back into One Love! I shapeshift from side to side and this new shape becomes OMG, or Oh My God!  And I boogie around: One Love, OMG, One Love, feet together, and then to the other side! It's a dancing meditation and a prayer. Then Kali gets into the Kosmic mix, which means One Love with Eagle arms and your tongue flying out of your mouth while your eyeballs roll up. Be fierce, because you are!

Now begin to blow these shapes in around your favorite standing poses. Take familiar Warrior poses like Virabhadrasana I or Utthitha Parsvakonasana (Extended Side Angle Pose) and toss some fresh moves into the mix, including Devotional Warrior, where your arms wing back behind you as you bow your head toward the ground.

Move side to side and front to back, drop the mind into the breath body and free the movement to dance like a dervish, dance to feel alive. Dervish is translated as "one who opens the doors." Let this dance be your divine doorway to oneness and One Love.

Wake Up and dance to the Sun and find/create your own moves, celebrating your connection to love and life.

Keep it real, have fun, and come as you are! (Clothing is optional.)

Here's a Sun Dance playlist to start your day:

Here Comes the Sun,  Nina Simone
Wake Up Everybody,  Rae and Christian Remix
Suntoucher, Groove Armada
Angel of the Morning, Pretenders
Watch the Sunrise,  Cassandra Wilson &  John Legend
House of the Rising Sun, Cat Power
Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu,  Sean Johnson



 
Dana Trixie Flynn is the director of Laughing Lotus Yoga Center in NYC and is Co-Creator of Lotus Flow Yoga. She is forever the student of life's boundless teachings and shares her raw and personal creative expression with great love all over the world.