Ya Mujib, Ya Wali, Ya Waliyy:
Instructional Dance Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1cVCHdDs78
This is a practice and meaning of listening and prayer. In the dance we gesture a piercing through the darkness, confusing shadows of our limited humanity through prayer (Ya Mujib) as a call to discover and rediscover our intimacy with the Beloved (Ya Wali, Ya Waliyy), the one who answers, responds to our call and protects. But answers and resolution requires that we listen and be attuned from the core of our body-being, the womb of love. As an apsect of this quality of listening, we venture into the feeling depth of our humanity, especially our wounded human conditioning, not bypass it because it's always there, ever a part of our selves that longs to be called home to wholeness. 'The stuff or our humanness is the memories, unintegrated perspectives, capacities, hopes, unresolved emotional issues, personal identifications, egos, stories and the body itself.' Through the lenses of the wazaif we become more resilient, sensitive and aware; this helps us in listening and dancing with our humanity and divinity, as Hazrat Inayat Khan says, "Humanity, divine limitation; divinity, human perfection."