“You choose your focus”
We started with a short meditation for people to decide on a focus for the evening.
At the end of the evening everyone who remained named the focus they worked with:
*** Open/Closed/Follow my nose.
*** I arrived with the focus of “jewel in the fold” to be aware of the potential in all the creases in my body. But during the meditation in the beginning the focus changed to “staying true.”
*** Washing through: leting the dance wash through me to see where dance had left me.
*** Be a bag of bones (with a flirtation with wind).
*** I had no focus, then it moved through lack of focus, “should be focused,” then just grounding, which led to, of all things, lightness.
*** Identity: who I am or who I think I am.
*** I prefer having a focus given to me so I can work within the limitation of the focus. When I choose my own focus, it keeps changing shape.
*** Be a turtle. (Realized that doesn’t get me very far till people started coming and turning me over) I realized that turtles have the urge to fly and fly I did.
*** Also groundedness.
*** Taking it slow.
*** Re-integration -- dancing after an injury – arriving back. The floor was very sticky tonight, which scared me.
*** Tempo: what is my sense of the tempo? Inside tempo, outside tempo: observing it.
*** Luxuriating on the lake. Canoeing on this calm lake.
*** Ease / Release (On no! Which do I choose? Oh yea, both!)
*** I chose one before getting here. Then after the meditation I went and wrote a whole list of possibilities in my journal. Then I chose stickiness. That went with the stickiness of the floor and the people tonight. Made me feel less frustrated by what was real.
Other observations:
*** Tonight was like one of those “choose your own adventure” books. I wanted to turn to page 63 to see what would happen.
*** I was curious about my partner’s focus and if they could guess my focus.
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