Dancing Alone

It takes tremendous courage to fold up and put away an identity created for us by society and family. First, one must listen and respond to the inner stirrings of our authentic selves. They clamor so quietly, and it takes a listening heart to obey their urgings.

Georgann Low listened with love and attention. Her journey began in Colorado-as daughter, wife and mother. Slowly, she extricated herself from a role she had accepted but outgrown. She allowed her true self to be revealed through yoga, energy work, drawing and painting, and singing and performing jazz.

Eventually, she moved to the south of France, where she expressed herself through the tender act of gardening, meditating in the little attic at the top of her house, and becoming acquainted with her rural French neighbors. There, she found her body through dance, her voice through singing and writing, and her heart through love.

She brings the reader with her through the peaks and valleys of separation: the regret, the guilt, and the hopefulness. Questioning whether she might allow herself to love again, she asks the universe, "Could I have someone in my life and still speak to my silent world?"

Whether or not she chooses love, she has found herself through dancing alone.