Radical Aliveness

Using self-inquiry, I unpack a recent personal interaction and mine it for insight, understanding, and deeper self awareness. *Can we impede another's learning by 'rescuing' them from a situation we believe is harmful to them? *Might the insights I share here may make us more effective and helpful as coaches/ advisors/ friends? * When something feels extremely alarming to us... is that the moment to take action? *Are you ever tempted to defer your decisions to an expert? *Who can we trust to know our reality? I'd love to hear your thoughts...have you been the experiencer of any aspect of the story I share? How or what did you do? What did you learn? Let me know!

I anticipate a good time, I anticipate connection, I anticipate well-being before I even head to where I’m going dancing. I bring myself with my heart flowing and open and then I arrive. I arrive and let my focus and my attention be inside in my body, in my sensational world. And I begin to move just how I feel, often with my eyes closed, just savoring being an alive, mobile human. Being and savoring being in the ecstasy of being alive, being in a body, being a body-- With all that’s available to me: sounds smells pressure Breath. I luscious myself up for a while and continue to sense deeper and deeper. It’s like sparking my own fire. And fanning, and feeling I am here! Then I’ve got to rise up, and look around, (still from this very embodied place). But now I'm eager to be available, to be accessible. I'm eager to be influenced. ...

Ecstatic Dance in 9 Chapters 1) So I danced tonight with medicine I'm still a little high Still in my right brain Still in Hang--- Taking time to integrate, and Celebrate Now. I noticed: My first touch received, “don't press, don't press.” My last touch received “don't squeeze my neck that way.” Unfazed and going for what I want Everything in Between was extraordinary. I listened. With confidence. My responses were radically Receptive Radically Supportive. 'G' was undone He wanted to ravish me. 'C' exploded in the halo of my attention, my relating. 'L' popped in delight by my audacious innocence. Be solid. Then I can find you. Then you can have me. My touch penetrates to your core if you have one if you'll be there if you'll let me, There is nothing more delicious. 2) I noticed: That when I own my dance Y...

Recently a long-time CI dancing friend wrote: for me c.i. is therapy. it invites all of me to show up and be, be and explore. it invites me to know myself and listen to others. i welcome that intention, i love the way it is my teacher, my therapist, my friend. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I, too regard c.i. dance practice as therapeutic. Dance has been my pathway to get closer to myself and closer to others. Through dancing using elements of c.i. with large numbers of people over the past 12 years or so, the majority of whom have had little or no experience with C.I., I have learned how to bring my authentic self into my interactions with others. It is through learning to listen and respond to myself while listening and responding to another in this very physical ‘dance’ form, that I have begun to understand what a sweet and satisfying thing it is to know myself and to know myself in relationship. Exploring CI has helped me to discover my authentic self, and to bring that self ...