My limbs are made glorious

As a follow-up to yesterday’s post on joyful dancing, here’s the video Where the Hell is Matt? Thanks to a Rosen Method friend, Joanna, for sending it.


The video includes dancing in 42 countries. I especially like the crabs on the beach on Christmas Island, Australia and the dog in Kuwait City. And that short kid on the left in Sydney who dances by kicking his legs out to the side? I love to do that. It just happens! Everybody loves to dance. It doesn’t matter how you do it.

Here’s Matt Harding’s website with more videos and information.

The music of the video’s song, Praan, was written by Garry Schyman. The lyrics are adapted from the beautiful poem, “Stream of Life,” by Rabindranath Tagore.

Stream of Life
The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day
runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures.
It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth
in numberless blades of grass
and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.
It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth
of death, in ebb and in flow.
I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life.
And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment.

Related Posts:
The physician as poet
The physician as reader of poetry
The physician as humanist
Dance for joy: Rosen Method Movement and a Minnesota wedding
Happy New Year
Happy Holidays!

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Garry Schyman, Praan

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