Todays Body Wisdom TTT: Things Take Time: Incrementality

When you take a walk today, notice.

• I move one step at a time.
• I enjoy each step.
• I celebrate small moments.
• I claim new places.
• I acknowledge those who support my progress.

Take a deep breath and let it out with a sigh…

In pain or stress, incrementality may be difficult. Survival is demanding.

It is OK to take leaps of imagination with heart, prayer and vision, to be carried, to take no steps, to rise out of your body, to hover, to rest in “other worlds.” All is body wisdom for the art of living.

Take a moment to dance on behalf of the joy and love of friends in InterPlay who are moving through health challenges: Ann and Rae in Sydney, Randall in Memphis. Others? Place their names in the comments.

Do you need to be danced on behalf of today? Anytime someone opens and plays “Amy’s Song” a prayer of love will be danced for you.

Take another deep breath and let it out with a sigh.

I raise my hand to you from Sydney!

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Take a deep breath and let it out with a sigh….

Shake out one hand and Shake out the other.

Now, Shake Out Whatever You Are Sitting On!

This is one of the InterPlay slogans.  It means that our bodies hold on “tight” to things. Fortunately, we can shake it out! Even “people of the chairs” can let energy move and let spirit flow. We can amuse and be amused. Ellen DeGeneres agrees. She invited Aunt Carol to come on her show after this youtube went viral. Aunt Carol is an InterPlayer “in her heart.” I’m sure.

Are you an InterPlayers with youtube savvy? Join an InterPlay campaign and create a chair dance of your own! Hey, if they get watched these would count as connections!  I’ll try to post some 30 second chair dances while in Australia. That’s where I am headed today!

Here’s some music. Do you own improvisational chair dance now. Remember, you can shake out whatever you are sitting on!

Oooooooooooo….Saying a little prayer for you!

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Shake out whatever you are sitting on.

We’ll use solo movement in this practice, so lets warm up with the InterPlay hand dance.

The four elements earth, air, water, fire each bring unique wisdom and energy to life.

Practice

In stillness tune in to your bodyspirit.
Is one or more elements calling to you this year. Do you need more earth, air, fire, or water?
Welcome the first thing that comes to mind.
Use the hand dance form or stand up to explore and listen to inspiration from the elements No need to figure it out. In moving, thoughts and images may shift, blend or evolve into new ideas. Welcome whatever comes.
If you find it difficult to dance alone, do some free writing or sit in silence. All are embodied practice.)
Move in silence, to your own music, or to music in this youtube,

Write or jot down any impressions. Feel free to share them in the comments.

May 2012 bear you up on wings of love, fill you with the breath of life, carry you on joyful waters of curiosity, inspire you with passion, and increase your savoring for beauty of this earth.

Raising a hand to those who play across the miles,

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Get on– initiate something.
Get off– make a clear ending.
Get over it– Let it go, detach, release your connection.

Breathing, Shaking, and moving all help to let go of the past.

• Take a deep breath and let it out with a sigh….Shake out one arm, Shake out the other, Shake out whatever you are sitting on.Give your face a moosh. Massage your scalp.Raise your arms up toward heaven, stretch, and connect to your big body.Open your arms wide and connect to the beauty of the world.

Embodied creativity helps us listen to different aspects of wisdom: Movement, Voice/Breath, Stillness, Word, and Touch. Take an end of year mini retreat, choosing the forms to connect with the wisdom of your body.

To conclude lift up and release people, time, or places to the highest good. As you bring them to mind, use hands to lift them up. Embodying our thoughts make intentions real.

Take a deep breath and let it out with a sigh….As they say, these are the days of our lives….Happy New Year!

If you are an InterPlayer,  look back at the year and count some InterPlay connections. This is one way we can claim that something as ephemeral and beautiful as creativity and spontaneity are alive and well. Use “Everywhere” for the place. Just tally connections and send em here.

Incrementality, taking a deep breath, letting it out with a siiiiiiigghhhhhhhhhhhh, shaking it out, speaking in gibberish, and more!

Whatever this weekend holds for you, three Hoosiers in Oakland, Phil, Cynthia, and Stephanie and our gang of elves, Lucia, Theron, Sally and Miriam send love, fun, and this youtube from Hoosierland to remember that no matter how mixed up time, numbers, gifts, faith traditions, and days get….those who play somehow make sense of it all. Wheeeeee.

Cheers! (English)
Sláinte! (Irish)
Nastrovya! (Russian/Polish)
À Votre Santé! (French)
Salute! (Italian)
Skål! (Swedish)
Salud! (Spanish)
Prost! (German)
Saúde! (Portuguese)
Okole Maluna! (Hawaiian)
Kippis! (Finnish)
Proost! (Dutch)
Oogy Wawa! (African Zulu) my personal favorite
Kampai! (Japanese)
Chock-tee! (Thai)
Konbei! (Korean)
Gan Bei! (Chinese)
Stin Eyiassou! (Greek)
And the list goes on …

See  InterPlay.org for New Years Happenings in Seattle, Oakland, and Raleigh and a wonderful 2012 of possibilities.

need a last minute gift? Check out this be amazed necklace from Anita Bondi our InterPlay Jeweler.

Raising a hand in blessing,

Jingle #1

Did that video cost a fortune? How bout something sustainable like a mini finger flash mob? Shake those fingers and dance!

Jingle #2

Don’t like to dance alone? Here’s an idea…. Jingle #3

OK. It’s time for finger improv! I got the music…you got the digits. Remember, your fingers can fly on Jingle #4~

Take a deep breath and let it out with a si——–gh!

Raise those dancing digits and lift up those who could use some play today!

Have you ever considered that all of life is direct connection? On a basic level we are here to be in touch, savor and flow in intimacy.

If we are hurt we may withdraw connection. How do you stay open to spontaneous, joyful human contact?
InterPlayers use a very simple process called the hand to hand dance to “play” ourselves back into innocence.

If you feel open to contact you can go deeper. Welcome greater connection.

Take a deep breath and let it out with a sigh.

Bring your own hands together and dance a meditation connecting with your own sweet skin to SimpleThingsAreHoly (This music by Linda Breitag is available through Body Wisdom on Feet to the Fire at our store. Click here)

This month is dedicated to counting InterPlay connections. Have you used InterPlay with others? A group? A person? Please share at Count Your Connections.

Glad to connect with you all around the world.

Life does get intense at times. Give the screen a good hard look.
Yikes. Hopefully your focuser isn’t as cute as mine.

That focuser may be what people mean when they say, “I’m in my head.” Our eyes “look out” and work at things. The number 11 is great, but not between the eyes. So serious!

InterPlay gives much needed focusing relief in many forms.

How bout an eyebrow dance?

Maybe that’s too hard, like ballet for eyebrows? How about just mooshing your face around.

Take a deep breath and let it out with a sigh.

When we lighten our focus we change the world at least that much!

Or go crazy by following Theron’s exer-brows.

InterPlay is perfect for recovering serious people and people who are hard to take seriously. Come play or learn how. Go deep or stay shallow. Play big or small, change the world by playing instead of working on it. Really! Find out where to get your easy focus fix at InterPlay.org

Raising a hand in connection!

Take a deep breath and let it out with a sigh…..
From a birds eye view humans walk, stop, run, and dance  en masse.
Exalt in life’s dance. Move with it, occupy and witness it. “The time of the lone wolf is over.” The more you emphasize the joy of following, the greater the collective dance. Flock for fun!

To create improvisational ensemble, use InterPlay’s directions for Walk Stop Run.
(You can have music playing throughout or start the music when you are actually ready to Walk, Stop & Run.)
Walk in any direction. Change direction. Change direction again.
Find the edges of the space as well as the center.
Change direction.
Walk backward. If you run into someone say “thank you!”
Walk forward again.
Walk in an unusual path.
Change direction.
Notice who else is in the room.
Walk right by someone.
If you are able, take it into a little run.
Change direction.
And stop.
Walk.
Run.
Stop.
And walk.
Now play with these three elements: Walking, Stopping & Running on your own time and with each other. Ready, go. SimpleThingsAreHoly: Linda Breitag

 
What kind of a flock are you in?
A siege/sedge of bitterns
A peep/brood of chickens
A clattering of choughs
A covert of coots
A herd of cranes
A murder of crows
A trip of dotterel
A dole/dule of doves
A flight of doves
A raft of ducks
A charm of goldfinches
A gaggle of geese
A flight of goshawks
A rasp of guinea fowl
A cast of hawks
A siege of herons
A train of jackdaws
A desert of lapwings
An exaltation of larks
A tidings of magpies
A suit of mallards
A watch of nightingales
A parliament of owls
A pandemonium of parrots
A covey of partridges
A muster of peacocks
A nye of pheasants
A kit of pigeons
A congregation of plovers
A drift of quail
An unkindness of ravens
A parliament of rooks
A wreck of seagulls
A wisp of snipe
A host of sparrows
A murmuration of starlings
A game of swans
A spring of teal
A dole of turtledoves
A fall of woodcocks
A herd of wrens?

Discover 1000 ways to InterPlay! Check InterPlay.org to find willing folk.

Raise a hand (like a bird) and connect through body wisdom to friends far and near!

Lucky us. No matter what, artists thrive! Even when we must disassemble our work, body politic, a pattern or our life!

We can play with it! This is an InterPlay secret!
Deconstruction can be fun!
Disintegration is integrating.
Two do not need to become one.
In discerning, some disassembly is required.
Let it dance!

Enjoy a discernment practice from Dance: The Sacred Art: Discovering the Joy of Movement as Spiritual Practice.

If you need to make a decision between two choices, it can be helpful to do a dance using your two hands. Put one choice in one hand and the other choice in the other hand, and do a dance of decision making. This dance can also be done with a partner, or you could watch two people dancing hand to hand.
Dance of Decision Making
• Press your palms together, then pull them apart. Recognize that push and pull are part of decision making.
• Now, let your two hands flow and come together in random connections. Make different shapes as they connect.
• Bring your hands back together, palm to palm. Notice the feeling of this simple connection.
• Begin to open the space between your palms, letting them move apart.
• Drop your hands, then bring them together again.
• Imagine one hand holding one choice and the other holding the other choice.
• Release your focus or worry about the decision.
• With music or in silence, let the dance evolve any way it wants to. Select a piece of music from Phil Porter’s website. musicplayer.htm
• When you are done, take time to write, or simply take notice of  your body wisdom,  returning to the choices you held in each hand. What do you notice about the relationship of these two choices? Do you feel moved toward one or the other? Has any wisdom offered itself?

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Take a deep breath and let it out with a sigh. Shake it all out.
Even in this moment we assemble. Raise a hand in connection to friends far and wide.

Know someone in discernment? Send them this link!