Radical Aliveness

How can you handle (unsolicited) advice with care and compassion for the giver, and receive instead the active listening you want instead? Watch to hear more about why we give advice, what we really want, and how to be of greater support to yourself and to others as you look for guidance.

Can practicing Contact Improvisation Dance help us get connected to our Inner Spiritual Guidance? We learn to navigate our physical movement in the world with the assistance of tangible environmental feedback. Cultural conditioning overrides and replaces our inherent inner guidance mechanism. We can reconnect with our inherent inner guidance as we consciously experience movement patterns and energies through practicing Contact Dance. In my own experience, and the experience of my clients, the self-connection we learn to clearly sense in CI can be referenced to find the felt-sense of inner soul knowing. How do we develop an inner compass? With physical movement we learn as infants how to function in a physical world, where the impartial laws of physics guide our organisms through environmental feedback during movement explorations. As we learn to move our bodies, it's mostly a conversation between our bodies and our physical world of objects. Pretty straightforward. But how ...

How comfortable are you when: you are anticipating performing being in front of an audience: to dance, to sing, to speak, to act? You are in the role of teacher? You are on a first date? You realize that you are going to become, or already HAVE BECOME the center of other's attention? If you feel anxious, get ill, or generally experience deep discomfort, this video may give you some insight as to why. It offers a unique viewpoint about what may be happening, and how you may be able to overcome and even CURE your distress in these situations.

Do you identify yourself as someone who acts co-dependently, as a caretaker, or people pleaser? Do you find that you adjust your ideas Your behavior, your feelings, your actions, your thoughts based on how someone else might react? Do you have trouble knowing what you really want? Do you often feel powerless Or oppressed? Do you have trouble standing up for your needs? Is it hard for you to find your own voice especially in interpersonal relationships? As I was holding a quiet state of presence with a client recently while we were silently connecting through eye contact alone, she was able to notice that her mental processes were working overtime. Reflecting what I perceived in her energy I said, "Its exhausting." And she had the insight that, during this intimate moment between us, when she could have been simply and deeply relaxing into receiving herself, and receiving my embracing attention, instead her mind was frantically working,. It was obsessively searching ...