10.00-11.30
104 Av. Victor Hugo, 1750 Luxembourg

Forgiveness and letting go:
a gateway to freedom

We danced for freedom and peace last time on Saturday.
But there can be no freedom or peace if we don’t know how to forgive. Forgiving others and forgiving ourselves.

Blaming ourselves and feeling resentful blocks us, freezes us and prevents us from moving forward. And we all carry a rucksack filled to varying degrees with blame, frustration, regrets, a guilty conscience and failures.

All these feelings weigh on our shoulders, squeeze our chests and we drag this weight around like a ball and chain. Ruminating poisons us from the inside, slowly eating away at us and preventing us from thinking and acting.

Liberation begins in the body. That’s why we dance.

Dancing can free us and we may even be able to transform those painful feelings. The creative act allows for renewal, for growth, for change to ‘something’ better, something beneficial.

Here are a few quotes on forgiveness and resentment. Perhaps one of them will inspire you in particular for our exploration this Saturday.

“People have to forgive. We don’t have to like them, we don’t have to be friends with them, we don’t have to send them hearts in text messages, but we have to forgive them, to overlook, to forget. Because if we don’t we are tying rocks to our feet, too much for our wings to carry!”
C. JoyBell C.

“The willingness to forgive is a sign of spiritual and emotional maturity. It is one of the great virtues to which we all should aspire. Imagine a world filled with individuals willing both to apologize and to accept an apology. Is there any problem that could not be solved among people who possessed the humility and largeness of spirit and soul to do either — or both — when needed?”
Gordon B. Hinckley

“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”
Nelson Mandela

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“If you can see your mother as a fragile five-year-old girl, then you can forgive her very easily with compassion. The five-year-old girl who was your mother is always alive in her and in you.”
Thich Nhat Hanh,

“Love is forgiving, accepting, moving on, embracing, and all encompassing. And if you’re not doing that for yourself, you cannot do that with anyone else.”
 Steve Maraboli

If I cannot forgive myself
For all the blunders
That I have made
Over the years,
Then how can I proceed?
How can I ever
Dream perfection-dreams?
Move, I must, forward.
Fly, I must, upward.
Dive, I must, inward,
To be once more
What I truly am
And shall forever remain.
Sri Chinmoy

Come and join us on a common floor and in a common dance!
Good music is going to support us in our explorations.

Price: 25 €
You can pay cash at the beginning of the class
You can use PayPal if you have an accountYou can use Payconiq
You can transfer 25€ on my Bank Account IBAN LU85 0024 1521 8570 0000
Wear comfortable clothes in layers, you might like also to wear socks at the beginning or during the whole class
Bring your bottle of water or tea… and the willingness to forgive…