Moving Monday -- Pause • Threshold

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The Spiral Dance of Wholeness

We dance in Wholeness to Remember our Nature.

Essentials:
Resonance request from those of you doing recordings. If using class recordings in lieu of live class please know your resonances with the material are valuable. In fact, since you aren't here in person hearing your feedback is a way to bring you into the circle more often. Please feel free to email me or use the comment feature in the youtube space.

PS: Apologies to those of you who have used the youtube comment section. I just saw some lovely ones. I am going to check more regularly!!

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

Last week the exploration was: What naturally brings you to a stop. a pause?

What are different contexts for coming to a stop?

What are different qualities of finding yourself paused?

This week we continue that thread and include:

When do I choose do pause?

What is afforded in the choice to stop or pause?

What are different contexts and qualities of choice-full pausing?

How do Thresholds fit into this? What happens at thresholds?

Photo: Suzanne

Resonance

42. Friday

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Alison: I left longing for another half hour to integrate what I was playing with into standing, jiggling, and dancing! (Which is a good thing.)

As I continue to explore my shoulder pain, our work with joints, organs, and now the unified diaphragm has been so illuminating.

I still have pain, AND I can explore different centres and fulcrums and notice how they change my reach, grab, and pull.

When my centre/fulcrum is lower down my reach feels liquid-y and lugubrious.

As my centre/fulcrum moves up - kidneys, xiphoid process, heart - I gain a more bubbly sense of my interior, and reach feels light, wispy, airy.

Both are pleasant, and now I have new information about the use and function of my reach/shoulder/arm. And some different choices I didn't have before. Pausing helps me to notice and asses and regroup before taking action.

From Youtube for Monday's class:

Alison: at first I didn't think I'd be able to allow a pause to arise without it being a top-down decision. but very soon I found pauses arising and I followed them into a new cycle, allowing cycles to complete and begin without directing myself. very cool!

Resonance Pause•Threshold

Photo: Alexa Lightner

Science, Poetry, Art

Shared by Christine, thank you!!!

Soiree
by caroline sinavaiana-gabbard

for J.J. Wilson & Mama Day

an alchemy of distance:

your absence, sisters, stirs longing

your telephone talk/ raking

embers from the muses’s fire.

the spirit rises to the task, &

I from the couch/ awake now

to take up the story

where the last daughter left off/

giving voice to the silence/ inside

green mountains looming/ from a warm sea

& voice/ to the insides

of calderas/ cooled volcano’s tilted cup

half-sunken to carve harbor from expanse of ocean

giving witness

to the chatter of fruit-bats

sucking papaya seeds from their teeth

in the tree outside my door

to amorous geckoes flapping splayed toes across

window glass louvers/ out on roach patrol together?

grabbing some gecko nookie in the odd moment?

(but oh, I forget my manners!)

to the sound of waves soughing behind drunken guitars

down by the store/ an occasional taxi rattling its

hubcaps over the roadway between here & the sea.

tutuila island, saturday night, alone at my desk &

the party’s in full swing,

ceiling fan whistling lightly/ & round

muffled barking from dogs in the next village east.

a solitude redolent of women’s spiraling

talk & deepening mysteries/ your sweet voices

blaze from the pages of books/ &

the hand-written lines of letters/ our conversation

burns its winding way/ over miles of ocean &

aeons of yellow hills & rocky ledges/ that arabesque

of hearts & joined limbs of spirit.

consorts revel in the glowing quiet

of the solitary study & draw me out

again/ into the wide air/ the opening dark

to mingle w/ ancestors & the scent of wild plumeria

to cut a rug in the tropical december night

to sip ginger tea/ & toast our starry confluence

across the galaxy of this moment.

Dancing tools and toys!!

I showed off my version of the above 'body sock' in class Friday. It is so useful for the pushing up against something, tone, aliveness movement work. I am enjoying it. Folks asked for the link to the company I bought it from. I also bought a cushion from them initially and the quality was really good. i see that all the balls I use are available through Fun and Function. Here is the link in case you are interested: https://funandfunction.com/

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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