Inspiration quotes from the conscious dance course

I have recently started a conscious dance course called "The Art of Becoming" that is a form of movement medicine to work through some emotions and settle in the uncertainty of life at the moment. I hope that by releasing some of the shame and shyness that I have been holding onto for so long, I will be able to express myself to the fullest most authentic way possible during my performative drawings.

‘This is a time of radical uncertainty, we do not yet know if we are midwives bringing a new world to birth, or hospice workers to a dying planet. The process of being with someone who's dying and the process of attending a birth have many features in common. We can only be grateful for this moment, this breath, this incredible capacity to direct our attention. Whatever happens, this can be a moment of unparalleled awakening. We have a sense of what it means for an individual to wake up. For the collective to awaken, we cannot even imagine what it will be like. The evolutionary pressure on us now, which can feel so ghastly, pushes us toward this awakening. Life-forms have gone through periods when it must have seemed totally hopeless. For example, when oxygen was a poison, who could have imagined that life would develop the breathing apparatus to use it?’ - Joanna Macy, 2005

The course asks you to think about the following questions:

How can we deepen our ability to be in a co-creative relationship with The Great Mystery, to listen more attentively to the whisper of our heart dreams, and to follow no matter what we encounter on the road? Conscious, creative becoming means sailing at the edge of not-knowing rather than contracting back into our fears and insecurities. It means developing an open, curious buoyancy that supports us to go where our heart has a yes, where we follow what we love and we embody our deepest values.

Through Movement Medicine practice we will deepen our relationship to this process of the art of becoming, open our minds to receive new inspiration and reclaim our self as a co-creator with life. We will dance and dance, see and be seen, tenderly reveal the whispers of our hearts and explore heart enquiry questions such as:

• How do we face into the unknown whilst relaxing into our self ‘as we are’?
• Where do fear, doubt or control kick in?
• What qualities and capacities support conscious, creative becoming?
• What unique gifts and potentials are blossoming within?
• What is our unique contribution to the co-creative flow of life?

Eisenstein - Mantra for a new Story:

- I am life, here to serve life.
- I know how to serve life.
- I trust what is mine to do.
- I know I will have the courage to take each step as it comes.
- What I do will be enough, as I submit to the coordination of a larger intelligence that speaks to me through my heart.
- I will be put where I’m needed, to best join the all-healing.
- Holy beings are watching me and I am never alone.
- A vast intelligence weaves all things, and it is here right now.

“We co-create with the universe, the more creative our participation the more creative the universe and The Great Mystery becomes. To live in the universe of creative becoming, what honor and what responsibility.” - Chris Cleave

A quote from Naomi Kendrick that resonated with these inspirational quotes:

"I realised in a way this is exactly the thing to think about, to hold on to what's important to you, whilst enduring the whirlwind that surrounds us."