*** Invitations ***
How do we offer invitations? How do we acknowledge, reject and accept them?
Here are some comments people made at the end:
-While I was dancing, I wondered about what my partner was interpreting my invitation to be. So we started naming what we thought the other was inviting. These were some of them: Cellular contouring, "lean into me for a wonderful ride", follow-through. We didn't check to see if they were accurate but our dancing was more articulate and fun.
-Found myself feeling my own body as an invitation to myself - different parts of my body were inviting me into various sensations and states.
-It changed my perceptions of other people's invitations. Maybe I thought people were more inviting than they actually were!
-I started feeling the room, particularly because it is our first time here, as inviting me into dancing. I also perceived the group mind inviting me to interact with the different groupings in the room. I also smiled at people more and felt invited by people across the room.
-Tried to say "no" to invitations just for fun - I found it wasn't easy.
-I had an easier time moving through the room. I didn't feel like I was barging in on others. The focus made it ok for me to offer and to have the offer accepted or rejected.
-I felt invitations as a state instead of an action. I just like being in this state and I wasn't sure if I even wanted my invitations accepted. I guess it was like flirting for the sake of flirting.
-The Turkish word for welcome was in my head all night – “Hosh geldiniz"
There is a ritual of saying, "You're welcome here". The response is, “Hosh bulduk” which means, "Yes, I feel welcome."
-The roots of the word: "in-" mean "towards". "-vitations" has a mysterious origin. It may come from a word meaning: "pleasant". So it would mean: "to be pleasant towards." I wonder if "-vitations" come from the Latin word "vitalis" meaning "life".
-My partner knew how to create invitations for herself, she knew how to invite herself to dinner -- and I didn’t even know I was going to cook soufflÈ!
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