Being relaxed is good.

Releasing tension in all my body

And dancing

Feels like flow

Kind of scary

Unknown

Legs are working but it feels different.

 

It works

Till my mind kicks in with a thought:

How am I doing this?

And it all comes to a crashing halt.

 

The non-doing of doingness

The Zen of dancing

Dancing without the doing, without my mind slowing me down

Trained to move and following

Thinking without thinking

In the body

Following my teacher as he

Moves me like water

Across the floor.

 

Not yielding to fear

Answers my self to me

Answers my own questioning mind to my body

That already knows.

It is trained to move.

 

It is my mind that needs to be trained to stop

Stop stopping me

Stop questioning

Thoughts are too slow

Movement has already happened

It has to be a trained reaction where

Thinking is the meta-movement

Observing without interfering.

 

Stopping the clutching contracting stiffening reactions

To the thought of OMG something is good.

That moment of thinking

Takes me out of the Dance itself.

 

I know from my own years of work that

I will get used to the good feeling

I will learn that it really is okay

Just to flow

To dance

To fly.

 

Peace,

Dana

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*Alexander Technique – a systematic method for efficient, graceful movement with ease.