Image: from my Moving Words: Embodying Text workshop
This weekend, I offered a workshop: Moving Words: Embodying Text, an audition pieces lab where a beautiful group of humans gathered to investigate, play, sweat, fret, and move into expansive practices.
The whole weekend ended up nurturing my soul. Just so buzzy and inspiring! Such talented and curious heartbeats! What a privilege sharing space and offering uplift to their yumminess.
Just really wanted to jump on to share this moment: We began the whole weekend by asking two seemingly simple questions.
We asked the question:
What do we love?
And then
What part of ME do I want to share in an audition room?
And then
We realized
All of it belonged everywhere we went
Carrying our love, our people, our ancestors, our passion and connection
with us
everywhere we go
That’s when the work feels whole
Purposeful
Necessary
When we can step out of our silos and recognize that we bring whole communities with us as we engage in our storytelling. The hearts of our ancestors whisper from within us. We are not alone in our change-making.
Delicious life-art practices
A holding of the fearful. And a caring of collapse. And a showing, revealing, offering … that process is part of the deal. And so is hope. And so is your commitment to whisper your bountiful heart open. And that perseverance requires community. And when we keep what we love nearby, we are able to enter any space with the bravery required to leap into its own Life workshop, learning how to make this world a safer, kinder, braver, more expansive place to live in.
indeed.
Just wanted to share this