20/01/2023
Not many people know this about me, when I was around 10-12 I learnt ball room dancing and competed for Ritz ballroom in melbourne. I loved dancing. The pink skirt I now wear is the skirt I would compete in. When I am out wearing it, I feel so playful and in my inner child joy. Swooshing my skirt from side to side.
Since then I have always loved to dance, first in the clubs in my 20’s, always the first and last one on the dance floor and then I started attending hip hop classes. Hip hop is the opposite to Pilates. While pilates is tall and all about posture. Hip hop is relaxed and low to the ground. The more you slump the better.
Since then I have found ecstatic and intuitive dance. This opened a whole new level of freedom to my dancing.
It brought in elements of tribal dance and using dance as a way of releasing tension, and increasing movement in my spine, also tapping into the pleasure of dance- the subtle sensations in my body and the feel of goodness and love.
At times, when my mind has been low, I have turned to dance to bring me to the light. It has a power to bring me into my body and into the present moment.
I often think about the first human that realised there body could dance.. “hey, look what I can do” and all of a sudden a tribe is experimenting in different ways with there body. How dance has evolved over time. “Look how my arm can twirl”
It’s one of the easiest ways to connect to my inner child joy and awe.
In gratitude to dance 🙏🙏
Dance like no one’s watching 💃
