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Learning Tango through the Tao
The scene – two people hear the Tango music they know so well and deep within there’s a feeling, like a smile spreading inside as their eyes search for each other in the milonga. Perhaps it’s music by Francisco Canaro. She watches him cross the room. Their gaze doesn’t deviate. He waits. Slowly, she stands and joins him on the dance floor and they smile. He raises his left arm and invites her body, her heart, to come to his. She wraps her arms around him and settles. They pause. They breathe. And listen. Then, they begin to dance.
It’s many people’s dream to dance the Tango. Tao Focus presents a different approach to learning the most enticing dance in the world. We help you find your power and your "attitude" so that you dance those first steps like an authentic Tango dancer. They say you have to ‘find your Tango’ – your own expression. Our aim is to help you also to ‘find your Tao’ – make it your own.
Experienced dancers will discover the longed-for connection with their partner which has been eluding them in the maze of Tango technique.
“The highest form of dancing is one in which we inwardly balance the dynamic relations between the elements and phases in our body with our surroundings. We then enter into a state of equilibrium and so merge with the Tao.”
Tan Tien Chi Kung
Learning Tao through the Tango
“Dancing has an intrinsic erotic and ecstatic quality, as it serves to transform the Jing or generative energy/sexual essence, into Chi, and stimulate the hormone flow. Dancing may therefore be considered a particular form of Healing Love practice.”
Tan Tien Chi Kung
I deeply appreciate my luck at finding Tango, which has led me to live among the warm-hearted people of Argentina. Here I am, not a lot short of 60, dancing the Tango most days for hours on end!
Where does the energy come from, the power for the dance? Why is Tango so special? Tango engages what the Taoists call “Jing Chi”, transforming to “Chi”, and so, with the right partner, Tango can become a spiritual experience. Authentic Tango is a meditation practice in other clothes.
Tao Focus courses link into this process and lead us to the same expression of joy – within ourselves and with another. We use simple Tango techniques, but you will feel the Essence of Tango. You will be able to express your beautiful sexuality through dancing to music that stirs the heart.
Encircled by the practical and elegant Taoist techniques of the Inner Smile, Iron Shirt, Microcosmic Orbit and Healing Sounds, we strengthen the love and compassion energy of the heart and awaken our sexual energy.
We are born with the means to generate this wonderful energy. Sexual Energy is a vitality needed so much in our lives: not a luxury or only for film stars and young people. We’re born with it and “it doesn’t go away” (Dorothy Cowan, aged 94). Taoists are matter of fact here: the Jing is a natural resource that can help to heal us and enrich our lives, our Dance. We might have to ‘stoke the fire’ a bit or ‘reign in the horses’, but it’s with us, as a gift, forever.
More about tango: Tango Focus; National Geographic