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Spaciousness: Life Lessons from Dancing

Originally posted on Sirena Tales:
? Having abundant space or roominess. Being large in range or scope. These qualities have been my focus for quite awhile for my dancing and teaching dance.  Taking up more space when we move and…

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Embracing The Unfamiliar: Life Lessons From Dancing

“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”~André Gide So, we hinge over from our waists, turning on one deeply bent leg, and spiral our torsos fully around as … Continue reading

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Loving, Generous and Unafraid

“Find out what makes you kinder, what opens you up and brings out the most loving, generous, and unafraid version of you— and go after those things as if nothing else matters. Because, actually, nothing else does.”~Nick Offerman Ah, yes. … Continue reading

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fissure

  pressure mushrooming friction it was too great a fiction now a chink in the mask amassing momentum those whispers seemed like a fissure:…it was flow      

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dancing solo

how can the studio so familiar feel this foreign and daunting limbs that relish movement balk: unsure, cautious, and taut the way, haunting, distant and vague… suddenly something memory? magic? or the sheer force of practice flickers and floods crimson glitter … Continue reading

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Blessing The Space Between Us

I am smitten with “To Bless The Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings,” a shimmering gem of a book by the late Irish poet, philosopher, mystic, visionary, John O’Donohue. His luminous work about betweenness rocked my world awhile ago … Continue reading

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jettison…

  …the obsolete tools and rigid rules …the enervating ….and perseverating ….skepticism and fears without function DITCH THEM …with all our hobbling assumptions yes! overboard dump and shred them unload, discard and shed them liberating heave ho!  all of the cumbersome … Continue reading

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scudding to possibility

the great blue heron swoops, sweeping a curtain of clouds from the newborn sky blanketing us with dawn and peers down from his roost as if to say: how will you paint this day’s nascence?      

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while nature models grace

waking to the wind tossed marsh, her sodden slate refreshed capacious and full of possibility her soul as ageless as grace can we be like that? Note: I wrote this before I learned of yesterday’s terrible tragedies in the inimitable … Continue reading

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flooded by loveliness

a lunar fullness pulls, embracing the ocean’s rollick to waltz up our hill a frolic trampling mere human notions of drawing lines, of “mine” flooding….then receding breathing nature’s example ~beauty~ ~wisdom~ a lone heron splashes in the distance grateful like us     … Continue reading

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