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Catch A Wave: Moving, and Living, With More Ease
Let’s allow the dance to dance us, and then just go along for the ride. That was my suggestion today when I taught my weekly Contemporary Modern Dance class (on Zoom). One reason I adore this movement, which harnesses momentum … Continue reading
Posted in Dance, Inspiration, possibility and expansiveness
Tagged catch a wave, Dance, ease, flow, go with the flow, Inspiration, life lessons from dancing, momentum, possibility
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Grace Is A Rainbow
Originally posted on Sirena Tales:
Grace. I think about it a lot. As a dancer, of course, but also as a human being. Grace is a funny and amazing thing. People talk about it a lot, yet often have trouble…
Posted in Dance, Inspiration, Nature, possibility and expansiveness, Soulful
Tagged body, buoyancy, Dance, dancers, deer, ease, elegance, expansiveness, flow, fluidity, grace, graceless, inimitable, Inspiration, Jazzercise, leaping, marsh, nature, physicality, spirit
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An Invitation For Playfulness: Santa Hat Chronicles
The night clerk stocking shelves calls over to me with a big grin on his face, “Hey, Santa, I’ve been really good this year!” He proceeds to joke with me about how he hopes I’ll be rewarding his behavior at … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Inspiration, possibility and expansiveness, Santa Hat/Christmas
Tagged Christmas, Connection, Dance, delight, ease, expansiveness, Humor, light-hearted, merriment, movement, openness, playful, possibility, quotes, risk taking, Santa, Santa Hat, vitality
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Falling down: life lessons from the dance studio
Originally posted on Sirena Tales:
How to fall. What an amazing lesson contemporary dance teaches. Yessirree, as a contemporary dancer, I’ve spent decades learning and rehearsing how to fall well, i.e as safely and organically as possible. How cool that…
Posted in Dance, Inspiration, possibility and expansiveness, Uncategorized
Tagged breathing, centering, courage, Dance, ease, falling, fearless, grace, life lessons, lighten up, movement, release, resilience
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Got Flexibility?
Flexibility in the sense of “being ready and able to change to adapt to different circumstances.” Of course, the flexibility of mind and spirit that eases our adaptability appears in tangible form in the body: as suppleness, pliability, pliancy. The … Continue reading
Posted in Dance, Inspiration, Mindful, possibility and expansiveness, Soulful
Tagged Adaptability, Change, choreographer, Dance, ease, flexibility, fluidity, heron, Inspiration, life lesson, movement, Performance, pliable, rigidity, spirit animal, suppleness, tenacity
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Why Let Go?
Letting go of possessions, things, clearing the house, donating invites spaciousness lightens…. Letting go of rules, constraints, forms in writing permits possibilities to pour forth….. Letting go of unhelpful habits, of self-sabotage and self-defeat welcomes wellness, relaxing into growth…. … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Dance, Inspiration, possibility and expansiveness, Soulful
Tagged create, Dance, ease, expansiveness, flexibility, flow, habits, Inspiration, letting go, lightness of being, movement, possibility, practice, refreshing, release, renewal, spacious, thriving, wellness, writing
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On Spaciousness
I’ve been ruminating on spaciousness a lot lately. Some of this is because I am fortunate enough now to live in such spacious surroundings. Between our backyard neighbor of the vast marsh and the beckoning sea right down the road, … Continue reading
Posted in Dance, Inspiration, Kindness/Generosity, Mindful, Nature, possibility and expansiveness
Tagged benevolence, breathing, Dance, ease, embody, expansiveness, fireworks, flow, marsh, meditation, mother nature, movement, Ocean, openness, positivity, possibility, practice, sea, spaciousness, Spirituality, Third Eye, voluminous
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When Falling Isn’t Failing
I fall down a lot. Sure, many of my falls are intentional, a key part of my modern/postmodern dancing. But I also have a noteworthy number of unplanned stumbles, trips, totters. All of which have gotten me to think a … Continue reading
Posted in Inspiration, Mindful, Soulful
Tagged "Rising Strong", Brené Brown, compassion, courage, Dance, dancer, ease, failing, failure, falling, getting up, gutsy, Inspiration, Joseph Campbell, mindful, movement, passion, perspective, possibility and expansiveness, quotes, release, struggle, stumbling, success, tenacity, testing limits, vulnerability, wholeheartedness
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the poem that writes herself
she comes to you in a dream, dripping mystery as you sip your morning mists, elegance rising or she whispers playfully when we brush teeth, look the other way sweeping the dust from our dulled floor, and how she streams … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Inspiration, poetry, Soulful
Tagged Creative Process, Creativity, Dance, dream, ease, easeful, grace, Inspiration, mundaneness, muse, mystery, Play, playful, poetry, synchronicity, writing
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