Dear folx,
I hope this email finds you well. It was wonderful to move "with you" and our community last Wednesday. I hope that you all are finding ways to ground yourself. I have appreciated hearing from many of you about how you are doing this -the wisdom and the struggle both felt and appreciated.
For me, the end of last week was rough. I'll spare you the details, but what has come forward are two thoughts I'd like to share...
First, I am thinking about the notion of training - this course has largely been focused on "training" - what we train for and how we do so. We have spent time integrating "training" with "dancing," and now I'm curious (for my own practice) about what it is to dance when I am not thinking of it as something that needs to progress, get better, etc. (Might this expand not only how I define training, but how I find value in my training, how a value my dancing, how I experience dancing, recalibrate my expectations, etc).
The second is to reinvest in my intentionality and commitment. In taking classes online, there is this quite wonderful way to both 'be in' and completely doing whatever I want. While I find this liberating in certain ways, I also think it allows me to skimp on my intentions by never fully committing. Much of the beginning stages of this pandemic have been about listening, grounding, tuning in. And yes to this. But also, might there be a time to try-on new experiences and commit to them fully before being persuaded by the litany of 'things I'd rather do right now' or eulogizing the aspects of dancing that are so loudly missing?