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Opening Up! Let’s Practice
“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.” ~Deepak Chopra Let’s break out of our comfort zone! Let’s break … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking/Food, Creativity, Dance, Inspiration, possibility and expansiveness
Tagged comfort zone, cooking, dancing, energizing, experimenting, fresh, movement, newness, opening up, possibility, practice, quotes, uncertainty, vitality
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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
Posted in Creativity, Dance, Inspiration, Mindful, possibility and expansiveness
Tagged courage, Creative Process, Dance, deer, discovery, expansive, exploration, illusion of control, Inspiration, life lessons, marsh, nature, possibility, quotes, uncertainty, unfamiliar
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The Sorceress of Reinvention
Originally posted on Sirena Tales:
? “Fearlessness is the mother of reinvention.”~Arianna Huffington Constantly decomposing and recomposing, the marsh is a boundless re-inventor. Like some wild and magical artist, she splashes vivid colors and pungent scents on the canvas, drenching…
Posted in Dance, Inspiration, Nature, possibility and expansiveness, Soulful
Tagged courage, Creativity, Dance, fearlessness, Inspiration, magic, marsh, nature, newness, possibility, quotes, reinvention, sorceress, uncertainty, unfamiliar, vitality
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More Vulnerability: Life Lessons from Dancing
Being in performance mode again last week highlighted for me that ever present, and often loathed, human condition: vulnerability. We human types are constantly “exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally.” Yet, we often … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Dance, Inspiration, possibility and expansiveness
Tagged artist, Brené Brown, Choreography, Dance, discovery, fallibility, frontier of the self, Inspiration, life lessons, meaningful, movement, passions, Performance, Performing, possibility, practice, risky, shame, taking a leap, uncertainty, vitality, vulnerability
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Tenacity and Resilience
For my country, and her friends everywhere: I remember another November day, way back in 1963, when we were taken home early from elementary school to mourn the tragic loss of our beloved President, John F. Kennedy. I remember reeling, … Continue reading
Posted in Inspiration, Kindness/Generosity, possibility and expansiveness
Tagged America, expansiveness, greatness, humanity, Inspiration, JFK, keep going, keeping on, Kindness, Love, marsh, our better selves, possibility, Rainbow, resilience, tenacity, uncertainty, USA
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Process: Life Lessons from Dancing
Define “a process.” That was the task posed to me at my first job interview after I graduated from college. The interviewer posed the question, gave me some paper and a pen, and left the room for ten minutes or … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Dance, Inspiration, Nature, possibility and expansiveness, Soulful
Tagged alive, aliveness, artistic process, Change, Choreography, creating, Creativity, Dance, illusion of control, Inspiration, marsh, movement, possibility, process, product, product oriented, quotes, sea, uncertainty, uncomfortable
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Playfulness Pours On The Magic
“Play is the highest form of research.”~Albert Einstein Today: photo shoot for an upcoming performance. A little nervous–the first time working with the other dancer; the first time meeting and working with the photographer. New venue. New format. New, new, … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Dance, Inspiration, Mindful, possibility and expansiveness, Soulful
Tagged buoyancy, Creative Process, Creativity, Dance, flow, fun, Humor, inventiveness, Joy, light, lighten up, magic, movement, Play, playful, playfulness, possibility, quotes, radiance, uncertainty
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Dance: An Elixir of Hope
Tomorrow, I am volunteering at a school to assist a group of adolescent students create a dance together. The themes they’ve chosen involve embracing our differences and love. Some of the details of the project are still fuzzy. And … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Dance, Inspiration, possibility and expansiveness, Soulful
Tagged accepting differences, body, body wisdom, Choreography, collaboration, Connection, Creative Process, Dance, elixir, empowerment, healing, hope, Joy, movement, mystery, openness, positivity, possibility, quotes, transcendence, uncertainty, understanding
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On Starting Over
“Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.”~Nick Hornby To you, does the phrase “starting over” carry a whiff, or more, … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Inspiration, Mindful, possibility and expansiveness, Soulful
Tagged Adaptability, beginner's mind, beginning again, Change, courage, Dance, innovation, Inspiration, letting go, movement, newness, openness, pivot, possibility, quotes, renaissance, starting over, tenacity, transition, uncertainty, unfamiliar, vitality
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knowing when to exit
it was far too late to be leaving so, how can the grinding weight (misgivings, grieving?) chill us still, like footsteps frozen by narrowed paths too trodden; funny how comfort both coddles and numbs- a blanket becomes a halter (or a … Continue reading
Posted in Inspiration, poetry, Soulful
Tagged alive, Change, collective thinking, comfort, courage, exit, fully alive, individual life, individuality, Inspiration, keep moving, leaving, loss, meaningful, moving, numbing, poetry, sidelines, social pressure, transition, uncertainty, unconventional, unfamiliar, unknown, venturers, vitality
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