about a love bubble but there’s no other way around it. A weekend love bubble of music, movement, and connecting with a group of people who are ‘all in this together’ [Ben Lee]. So many opportunities for intimacy and meaning, both solo and with others – familiar, cosy, close.
KEY INGREDIENTS OF INTIMACY As the years have gone by, I’ve become adept at throwing off my armour as soon as I hit the dance floor, so that presence, expression, and connection come easily. And I’ve discovered that the three key ingredients to intimacy, whether moving mindfully, or not, are as relevant on the dance floor as they are off it.
1 Presence The body is as much a part of the
conversation as the mind, with all cells firing, moving and alive in the moment.
2Expression 3Listening
We allow ourselves to be seen
without the usual armour; we are naked without our defences and this is where intimacy thrives.
Whether we’re connecting with
ourselves or another, we need to feel like an honest, open-hearted connection has been made, which means listening. Mark Nepo’s description of listening is the best I’ve heard yet: “To listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.” By giving our attention to what is
before us, completely and freshly we can co-create a portal with another, or a space inside ourselves if we’re dancing alone, where all sorts of magic arises, if we allow ourselves to move and express ourselves freely. Not the kind of top- hat-surprise!-it’s-a-bunny kind of magic but the edgy, unknown feeling that arises from participating completely in
the present. There’s no knowing what’s going to happen next, or what my body is going to do next, or my partner, or the music. There’s no time or space for judgements or narratives (yes, they may come later, but later is later), only for being, right here, right now, in intimacy with the self or with another. This for me, is much more exciting than
anything I might happen across on screen. As for the young ones, who am I to say? But my wish is that they experience many moments of intimacy, full of presence, expression and listening. l
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