Freedom/balance is a mindset, not a place, posture, or alignment…

Movers, shakers, and all somatic educators….

It breaks my heart when I see performance videos and watch musicians being still. Immediately, I think, where’s the joy? where’s the love? where’s the celebration?

If you’ve been sold that there’s a right place to be, a right posture, a right technique, or even that balance is some special alignment of your joints in vertical space that grants you a special freedom from which we can perform, I beg you to pause and reconsider the importance of movement. Give yourself and your students the gift of movement. Take the brakes off and unlock your creative potential through movement.

Let’s call a spade a spade.

Sometimes we take good information and apply it to an outdated paradigm (a map) and we get stuck. We spend a career trying to resolve the cognitive dissonance there.

Let go of the alignment/posture/balance paradigm and adopt a movement paradigm.

If we use words like: place, align/alignment/aligned, posture (there must be others…) we are working from a paradigm of stillness and right vs wrong. We are thinking that “freedom comes from how I organize my parts in relationship to each other.”

Freedom and ease is a mindset, not a position. It is a way of thinking born from trust in the ability of the body to coordinate itself around our intention. It doesn’t happen in any one place in the body. It happens in our thinking and our whole nervous system. It allows us to connect directly to our artistic intention, and for our bodies to move as it creates and expresses that intention. It is joy!

Sounds like a webinar or a workshop…..

Ya ok universe, message received.