A Big New Free Happy Unusual Life by Nina Wise

Author:Nina Wise
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: New Age
ISBN: 9780767911153
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2002-06-18T00:00:00+00:00

Dancing with a friend is good medicine—healing to the body and healthy for the friendship. In some cases, when you’ve spent many years hanging out with a companion and dancing has not been an activity you’ve shared, you might encounter difficulty at first—your bodies unsure of how to relate to each other. Here are a couple of movement recipes that might help get you going.

The Practice

When you are hanging out with a friend, spouse, child, lover, or colleague, put on music and dance together. You might be cooking dinner, gardening, watching television, house cleaning, or having a meeting. Take a break and dance.

At some point, dance entirely on your own, moving in a way that is solely dictated by your own body’s response to the music. At other points, join your partner and dance together, doing the same movements that your partner is doing. Move back and forth freely between these two options—dancing alone and then dancing together.

When you dance alone, fully commit to the movements you are doing. When one partner dances with intensity, the other partner feels the energy and can be moved into a similar space of energetic clarity. Commitment does not mean that you move fast and big; you can be committed to slow, lyrical movement as well. When you join your partner to move together, maintain your commitment to whatever movements you are executing.

As the dance develops, you might want to occasionally make physical contact, connecting your hands or bumping your hips or moving into traditional couple’s dance positions. Then move away again, so that you can find your own private relationship to movement in the company of your friend.

Any place can be transformed into a dance hall: the living room, the kitchen, the bathroom, the bedroom, the elevator, the hallway, the stairwell, the garden.

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