Soul Motion

I just completed the SoulMotion workshop with Zuza in Burlington. I feel a need to write and yet I am not sure what I have to say. Here goes…………. It is funny how I had a cold on Thursday the day before the workshop and felt quite lousy. When I went Friday night I wasn’t even sure I would last the night. Somehow over the weekend my well being improved…..At the moment I feel both energized and tired and mostly full of gratitude for the opportunity I had to dance with such a wonderful group of people under the sacred and professional direction of Zuza, a woman committed to this path of Soul Motion. It was wonderful to dance and move for an entire weekend!. I did not tire of the dance, however I might add that my body is now revealing a few tender spots. I noticed repeatedly how my mood, feelings and thoughts changed. I went to places of feeling awkward, to feeling rejected, and then accepted, to feeling scared and then safe, of feeling judged to acceptance. The landscape changed over and over again. The key was staying in the present. I got to experience over and over coming back to what was happening in the room, not in my head, not outside on the streets of Burlington. Another lesson I take from the weekend is a deeper understanding of the concept of expansion and contraction. We did this through our dance. . We are always moving between contraction and expansion. We do this with our breath - the inhalation being contraction and exhalation being expansion. -Sometimes we need to go in, to be more confined, more with ourselves, our internal process and other times to move out and be in the world, interacting with others. To do this dance over and over again in a safe environment was truly touching. It is another way for me to remember how we are all connected and how our needs, our desires, our fears are all so similar. Our stories may be different but in dropping the story line and showing up, dancing, our similarities are present and the sense of oneness is given space…………. As I just re- read what I wrote I realize how difficult it can be to communicate in writing such experiences. Poets, artists, musicians, to name but a few, often have the secret to revealing the essence……..the cornel of truth…….However, I am someone wanting to share my experiences, want to teach what I am learning and this is one way I can do that. As I transition back into my regular life and it shifts “out into the world” I know I can be pulled into places of fear, scarcity, doubt, aloneness. These words will help remind me of what I know in this moment to be true and to remember the landscape is always changing, always shifting. Dancing, breathing, sitting and quieting my mind are ways to bring me back to the sacred, to the divine to the connection with myself and all other humans dancing this dance of life………………..