💃 The Dance of Healthy Boundaries

What is the dance of healthy boundaries?

How do you know you exist?  How does your body remind you that you’re alive?

👉 e m b o d i e d   r e l a t i o n a l i t y

The art of knowing what’s right for you by relating to your environment, to another human being. 

Allowing for differences of opinion, agreement, feeling understood and misunderstood, seen and unseen. Allowing your full range of emotions and sensations in response. Allowing the push and pull, back and forth, yielding and pushing.  

Meeting in the middle. 

I dance with you so I can know myself. 

I am me. 

You are you. 

We meet each other in the middle - with compassionate boundaries - to know we exist. 

This is the dance of knowing where I end and you begin. 

There is no formula. Just being. 

We can only truly feel our SELF in relationship - with each other, with the ground, with the air, with the planet. 

🌿 Calm 🌿

🎥 Calm - VIDEO PLAYLIST 🎥 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3nUnbdrhRjyaTXBQhzgA7qI1AdQXJxai

What does “calm” mean to you?

This playlist highlights some ways to reconnect to your innate ease and vitality. 

Calm doesn’t have to mean lying on the floor. It can simply mean noticing your current pace and choosing to pause in awareness. 

This simple act of pausing and noticing shifts can shift your mood/sensation/intention, without you having to DO or FIX something. 

☀️ Learning Through Awareness

The Alexander Technique offers an effective process for learning.  By pausing and becoming aware of sensation and intention, you are priming your system for receiving new information. 

When your system senses a threat, it will click over to survival mode. This mode is characterized by fear and anxiety. Physical manifestations could include contraction, tension, compression, constriction. In survival mode, your system is not in a receptive state to receive new information. 

In short: when we are fearful/worried, anxious, we can’t learn. 

In his book Body Learning: An Introduction to the Alexander Technique, Michael Gelb describes the ideal learning environment as one that is “free from comparison or competition.”  With a focus on self-acceptance, the Alexander Technique inherently supports this type of learning environment. 

The Alexander Technique teacher is highly skilled in presence, kinaesthetic listening, and holding space for self and other. So lessons can provide a container for safety, learning, and growth.