Hi all,<\/p>\n
I’m exploring posts and trust that Jack will let me know if what I’m writing is best placed in a journal rather than on the forum.<\/p>\n
I’m playing with Exercise A: Expanding Condensing.\u00c2\u00a0 This exercise tends to stump me, puts me into a mental fibrillation.\u00c2\u00a0 Expand what? Condense what?\u00c2\u00a0 My mind skitters around in search of a tangible task.\u00c2\u00a0 Forcing myself to slow down,\u00c2\u00a0I started with my big toe, expanding & condensing sensation.\u00c2\u00a0 Intending to travel in this way through my body, in a type of body scan, my mind jumped elsewhere for the day, but at least I got started.\u00c2\u00a0 Yesterday, with Nia, the movement-dance form I do, I noticed that several of the routines call for expanding and contracting or moving bigger moving smaller.\u00c2\u00a0 Intrigued, I kept my awareness softly with those sensations as we moved.\u00c2\u00a0 What plopped into my experience was the pulsing interactive nature of expanding & condensing.\u00c2\u00a0 Instead of being static activities, as\u00c2\u00a0I had held them to be, expanding condensing came to life (literally I sensed an enlivenmnet) through their relationship.\u00c2\u00a0 Huh–that’s\u00c2\u00a0a new one for me, and in the spirit of community learning, I thought I’d give it a try on the forum.<\/p>\n
Wishing everyone well.\u00c2\u00a0 Lesley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hi all, I’m exploring posts and trust that Jack will let me know if what I’m writing is best placed in a journal rather than on the forum. I’m playing with Exercise A: Expanding Condensing.\u00c2\u00a0 This exercise tends to stump … Continue reading