Movement is my medicine

While I appreciate the importance of cultivating stillness through meditation, body movement is my central spiritual practice.  As I listen and respond to music, I feel simultaneously free and at home.  I can wave my hips and arch my back spontaneously and yet inhabit myself.  Each movement is a chance to follow, receive, connect, and express.

What makes moving spiritual for me is the opportunity to become aware as I dance.  On a good day, I experience many levels of learning at once.  I feel my body from the inside.  I notice how energy expresses itself through me.  As my feet move up and down, the earth holds me; as my arms open high, the stars shine and replenish me.  Joy and grief transform through my skin as damp release.   Thoughts come and hopefully, they go.  Dreams arrive and grow into ideas. 

What makes body movement a practice is that I commit to show up so I can learn.  Even on a hard day when a critical thought persists, I keep moving.   I observe how to receive even the most unkind thought and then challenge myself to let it go.  By practicing, I grow trust that something nourishing is waiting for me on the other side of a thought.  I learn how to choose where I will go.

Body movement shows me how to travel through life in a different way.

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