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The Spiral Dance of Wholeness

We dance in Wholeness to Remember our Nature.

Essentials:
Our slow motion dance Wednesday has left us with a fascinating recording - the gallery view shows all the varied interpretations and expressions of the time play.  Wed. Class Recording Link. Fascinating.

Please watch the very short funny video Micha sent - see below. It captures the invitation I made to do real life actions in slow motion and has a contrast character, which makes all the difference. The echos our Wednesday recording.

 

Photo: Kei Takei's Epic piece Light, Part 40 - her company: Moving Earth Orient Sphere
She taight the workshops in which I did the slow motion work.


Pause • Threshold


Pattern of Nature : Pause • Threshold

Pattern of Nature:  Pauses •  Thresholds
Perspective of Joy  - consciousness: I pause. I stop.  I pause in the threshold and listen...the potency of threshold moments. Ally of transition times.
Physical Root: Solar plexus -- pancreas  --back to front flow
Developmental Pattern:  Sea-anemone --arc-like movement --from reaching out to scan/being.
Nature's Expression: Dawn, dusk, seasons, stillness, silence, spaces between,
Political/social: Ability to do nothing - to stop, to inhibit reaction and make room for responding.
Creating:  What bubbles up and through you in any medium when you stop doing? What images. sounds, or absences evoke and support pausing? Thresholds?

 
Reflective Landmarks to Orient our play today

Pause -- stop --is movement, time, flow...

How do feel Time?

What is your natural tempo and how do different tempos feel?

How do various activities ignite different relationship, quality and experience of time?

 

 
 
Photo: another image from Kei Takei's amazing piece Light part 40 - 2014
Resonance

44.Wednesday

 

Alison:  i want to do that all the time

Jennifer: Me too 🙂

 Megan:  How beautiful to play with the flow of time this morning - to surrender and allow.

Alison : can you share the name of the choreographer in your next email?
BL: Kei Takei see below.

Micha:   Thank you! This was so much fun - and the song was perfect for me! It felt like being on a different planet. The slowness was delicious to me and I didn’t really feel like going back to my usual pace.

 

Email:

 

Alison:I absolutely needed this slow motion play today.  I arrived at class highly activated and excited by some news, (see below) and wanted to find a way to include this excitement rather than try to change it. Somehow the slow motion was the perfect thing.

 

At first I found my familiar rhythm and created a repetitive sound groove to reflect it.  Then I played with movement fragments over a pulse: moving on each sound/beat, then moving over two sounds/beats, three beats, four beats, etc.  

 

Then I allowed my groove to merge with the music and played with phrases: moving over four beats, eight beats, 12 beats.  I found myself syncing up more and more.  At first my torso and limbs were moving slowly but my eyes and thoughts were still moving at my familiar pace, and I was chewing my lip.  Then my breathing began to match the slow motion.  Then my eyes.  Then my thoughts.  Time slowed down (or sped up?) - I was so surprised when class ended - I could have continued for much longer!  (Did others feel this way about time?)

 

Are you able to share the name of the choreographer?  I'd love to explore their work more on my own.  I can even see therapeutic benefits to integrating this type of play into my work with clients.  Pacing is a significant part of our work.

 

THANK YOU FOR THIS.

 

And I'm with my excitement and anticipation over my recent news in a new way.  I feel like a more expanded container for this news, more fluid and spacious.

Alison's news:
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

Yesterday morning I received confirmation from the CRPO (College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario, my governing body as a therapist) that my application to the college has been accepted!
 
This means that I am now OFFICIALLY a registered psychotherapist (qualifying - I have to include this word until I write and pass the written exam, some time in the next few years)!!!!

With this designation, I am standing at a significant THRESHOLD between the cocoon of training and the open world of private practice.  I feel my throat and my heart squeeze as I stand on this threshold - I feel buzzy and energized and full-torsoed and planted as I stand here and feel what's behind me and look at what is ahead.  It's a wide and open space and I can see the horizon.  A beautiful place to pause.  And I feel ready to leap.

 

Science, Poetry, Art

Micha sent the following words and the video:

‘Re so na nce’

 

No … words … needed … right? :-)

From Micha.  It is perfect!!!!  Thank you.

Class Link:

This is the same link every time. You are invited to join on the hour for 15 minutes of 'tea-time'. This is a chance to be easy together, talk about the work and ideas and delights.

https://zoom.us/j/4722770547

Meeting ID: 4722770547
Password: 2020

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