The last two years have been a time of immense growth for me. I learnt to take things more lightly, to live concretely instead of idealising, to be connected with myself and with my actions to stay coherent to my feelings.
When I say I learnt, I mean I discovered the importance of all these things and I practiced them. I still do. It doesn’t mean that the process is over. But my quality of life has improved extraordinarily since.
My work, my research and my personal life are all interconnected. I cannot separate them. What I learn from one, I apply to the other. That, for me, is COHERENCE.
Since dong this inner work focused on self-connection and coherence, I began to notice something beautiful. Each day I enter the space, I discover a new route.
My body guides me. I listen to it at the start of my training and, senses open, I follow wherever it takes me according to how I feel both physically and emotionally. I START FROM ME in opposition to starting from a trick and force it onto my body.
The body is ever-changing envelope of everything we are and everything we feel.
Each day is a different colour. A different physical and mental state. We are never the same. And so is movement. So I start from myself and from there I move.
By saying this, I don’t mean that you should never practice the same sequence on different days because we always change, rather I take this as an opportunity to learn from my body. If we give ourselves a chance to learn to listen and express, we end up with so much material too. And with the sequences we create? We add them to our suitcase and keep walking.
I MOVE AS IF I WALKED.
I often give the example of a road. Place yourself at the start and you walk to the opposite end. You know your direction, right? But you don’t know what you might find on your way. And as you go, you lead, you follow, you create, you find situations. You plant seeds and collect others. But THAT IS WHAT MAKES THE WAY. We walk and if we fall, we take it from there.
Training this way, not only I began to feel myself more and understood the value of coherence but I also learnt to solve situations as I move.
Lightly.
One step after the other.
Where KNOTS ARE THE STEPS WE WALK.
Since I approach movement this way, I never get stuck.
I would like to share with you a comment that I cherish very much from Elisabetta Caffarella, one of my students at my workshop in Mantova this past March.
“After the Rope Manipulation workshop, when students found themselves stuck in a tangle, they had an entirely different instinct and reaction to it than usual. You could evidently see there wasn’t anymore a break or a stop but a softer reaction, as if it weren’t anymore a situation to escape from, rather simply an input to follow and carry on”.
Reading this was eye-opening for me. I knew exactly what she meant but I never put it in words. So here it is.
GETTING STUCK is not a a problem to fix. Getting stuck is one old perspective of a situation. Getting stuck is not a break, a moment to freak, stop, or runaway from. Getting stuck means to be somewhere unknown. And even though it is a place we don’t know, even though you might feel lost as a consequence of it, it is still a situation like any other. If you learn to take it one step at a time though, you’d know how to keep walking and it changes your whole perspective on movement. Getting stuck IS A PLACE, it is a space-input that you can follow and carry on instead of freezing.
And I actually believe there is so much beauty in GETTING LOST because it is exactly when you are lost that you are actually somewhere new. You are just scared because it is not familiar. Take a breath, carry on and enjoy it. And remember.. It is only a matter of perspective.
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