Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. ― Mary Oliver I was walking along a busy city street last week, and I was busy myself, inside my head, when the scent of roses stopped me … Continue reading →
Without judgment, take a minute to listen and to know. What do you feel right now? Notice your body, your tensions, where you hold. Bring you attention to your energy, your creative life force, is it lively or flat? There … Continue reading →
Tell me that you’re disappointed with the unfinished chores you see, but calling me ‘irresponsible’ is no way to motivate me. And tell me that you’re feeling hurt when I say ‘no’ to your advances, but calling me a frigid … Continue reading →
When the tissues and structures of the body are engaged and held in stillness… In that stillness there is opportunity for change and enhanced self-awareness. Phil Greenfield I attended Phil Greenfield’s http://www.corealignment.co.uk/ talk on Zero Balancing this week. It seemed very … Continue reading →
Yesterday I spoke of dancing with ourselves, and finding our own natural rhythms, adjustments, fluidity of movements, that come out of listening to ourselves and our bodies. I wonder if it is co-incidence that as a society we have moved … Continue reading →
Dance like no one is watching… Last week I had a further valuable experience of ‘going within’ with eyes closed. I was experiencing a therapy called Authentic Movement Therapy on a workshop. I won’t explain all that we did on … Continue reading →
When Imogen http://www.imogenragone.net/blog/ was helping me with releasing the tension in my body during an Alexander Technique Lesson a couple of weeks ago. She observed that I closed my eyes while adjusting. I found that this helped me get a sense … Continue reading →
“It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection.” ― Anonymous, The Bhagavad Gita Last week, I was reflecting on how empathy is a powerful re-iteration of the paradoxical theory of … Continue reading →
I’ve just returned from a family outing to Markeaton Park where we all took part in an archaeological excavation of the old hall. We clambered down into the trench where we were shown an old floor and with trowels and … Continue reading →
A character in my favourite musical, Wicked, sings about ‘Dancing through Life’, he proclaims, why invite stress in? Stop studying strife And learn to live “the unexamined life”.. As appealing as his approach may sound, we don’t always have the … Continue reading →