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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…
Posted in Dance, Inspiration, possibility and expansiveness
Tagged Dance, expansive, freedom, Inspiration, Jeff Warren, life lessons from dancing, movement, possibility, release, self, spaciousness
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Surprise Yourself: Life Lessons from Dancing
Originally posted on Sirena Tales:
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”~Andre Gide We are in heavy duty dance performance mode now. After months and months, and in some cases years,…
Posted in Creativity, Dance, Inspiration, Mindful
Tagged artist, Dance, life lessons from dancing, movement, Performance, practice, quotes, refreshing, rehearsal, risktaking, self, unfamiliar, vitality
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The Glow of Flow, or Optimal Experience
“….[T]he best moments in our lives, are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times…The best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile….”~Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi … Continue reading
grace rising
like the majesty breathed by earth’s mystery within each of us: possibility promise grace “Write a thousand luminous secrets upon the wall of existence.”~Hafiz
Posted in Inspiration, Nature, poetry, possibility and expansiveness, Soulful
Tagged Beauty, deer, earth, expansiveness, grace, humanity, luminous, majesty, marsh, mist, mystery, nature, poetry, positivity, possibility, quotes, secrets, self
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The Gasping Glory of Making Art
Recently, we attended a concert of music and dance at a high school where I had guest taught. There were many, many talented young artists sharing their work on an extensive, ambitious program. Yet, one of the standout moments … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Dance, Inspiration, possibility and expansiveness, Soulful
Tagged artist, being home, Choreography, Creativity, Dance, dancer, eternal, eternity, expansiveness, exultation, glory, importance of art, inimitable, Inspiration, Joy, making art, movement, positivity, radiance, reverence, self, soul made visible, transcendence
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Are You Doing Your Work?
Originally posted on Sirena Tales:
Your “work” being your calling or your passion or your raison d’etre. Recently, I attended a rich discussion by a panel of gifted, acclaimed choreographers (Wendy Whelan, David Dorfman, Ronald K. Brown, Brian Brooks). I…
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?
Posted in Inspiration, Kindness/Generosity, Mindful, poetry, Soulful
Tagged animal totem, clouds, dawn, expansive, great blue heron, heron, individuality, Inspiration, light, marsh, nascence, nature, new day, poetry, positivity, possibility and expansiveness, scudding, self, sky, spirit animal, sunshine, Windy
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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
Posted in Inspiration, Kindness/Generosity, Mindful, poetry, Soulful
Tagged capaciousness, dawn, eternal, expansive, Generosity, grace, Inspiration, light, marsh, nature, nature's wisdom, Paris, poetry, possibility and expansiveness, radiance, refresh, self, sunrise
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T(rauma)
Caution: This is not a cheery poem. If you seek something uplifting, please skip this and read (one or more 🙂 of) the previous several posts. If this poem resonates with you from your personal experience, please get help if … Continue reading
Posted in poetry, Soulful
Tagged abuse, body, body wisdom, cycle of abuse, healing, mental health, perfectionism, poetry, self, tightrope, trauma
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