My body is a symbol of elegance, power, suppleness, and solidity.
When dancing throughout my day, I activate my witness and use symbology to mold and shape my form… energizing the movement with the five sensations that keep me healthy and fit… flexibility, agility, mobility, strength and stability. Releasing into gravity, as well as lifting up and out brings my body into a state of balance.
Awareness of breath as flowing, healing energy and using sound has conditioned my lungs, diaphragm, intercostals, and abdominal muscles, constantly shaping and re-shaping my body as a symbol of vitality.
Dancing, sitting, playing, rolling, and lying on the floor relieves my lower back pain that has been present for many years. I have an extra vertebra in my lower lumbar spine, demanding more awareness for space and the need to create it as I move and release into gravity. Flexion, extension, axial rotation and lateral flexion all help the daily self-healing of my spine and bring it into alignment and homeostasis. When infusing my movement with yoga and modern dance, the symbology of stability and balance bring strength to my spine and core area.
Knowledge of the horizontal structure of my feet that are supporting me and dancing barefoot has restored their strength and flexibility as well as the strength of my lower leg muscles after walking many years in shoes. Even in most traditional dance classes, my feet were clad in some type of shoe, including toe shoes that cramped their structure. Now my feet are happy feet!
Practicing the 5 Stages has been transformational for the conditioning of my body. Playing with the architecture of each stage… circular, linear, four-point tabletop, stable and vertical to mobile and vertical… has improved my posture and grace, and reclaimed my joint mobility and muscle balance.
My body is a symbol of the balance of Yin and Yang, relaxed, alert and waiting… Now I Am.. conditioned and ready.