The Healing Force
2 min readAug 15, 2022
It is already within you
I attended my first in-person African Brazilian dance class in over two years. The musicians played the djembe, dundun, and surdo, African drums. As I took in the music and allowed it to permeate throughout my body, my soul began to heal. Like the sunshine fading Into brilliant colors, begging to shine just a while longer, I began to relax. I danced as if I were a musical note in polyrhythmic syncopation…