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Learn to Listen to your Body.

13 Wednesday Sep 2017

Posted by oberonsky in Elemental Body Alignment System (EBAS), Musings, Shaping Space, Soul to Soul, Uncategorized

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bodies in motion, body, body knowledge, conscious body, health, open body

 

Learning to listen to the body is at the center of training the body in any movement modality or technique. There are countless lens’s in which people engage in movement or physical practices in which they are drawn to and find a connection with. The most significant realization across this vast spectrum is that the body is the constant in every single one. And while different aesthetics or practices focus on different aspects of the body, ultimately, the body functions as a human body regardless.

If we allow ourselves to turn inward to recognize sensations of movement and techniques we allow ourselves to connect more fully to our physicality and to the spirit within that vessel. When we focus on the external picture, image or end result we no longer feel with the heart but see something outside and separate of ourselves. If we can learn how to see with our sensations we will learn to feel with our hearts. If we learn to do this more deeply, we will find a deeper consciousness with our physical tool and understand how to ask more graciously of it and build a sense of communication with a body that has an intelligence we seldom allow to be tapped.

Our culture doesn’t quite afford us this luxury. But in fact, it is not a luxury at all. What it is, is absolutely necessary. We can no longer work in a disconnected fashion any longer and expect to function authentically if we separate the head from the body and the brain from the body’s brain. The art of movement; artistic, fitness or sport, deserves a more profound relationship with spirit and body in order for more soulful action, physical sustainability and holistic well being. It is time to honor the body as a significant partner in our journey rather than a work horse to ride for selfish satisfaction only to be discarded when it no longer can support the human ego.

What if it is possible to gain without pain? What if it is possible to achieve without the brutality of body? What if you might train faster while achieving greater physical success? It is possible. It really is possible. The key to achieving this is simply to choose the present moment of practice in order to feel the information being shared in the now. Our past has brought us to this place in life and in order to move forward we must accept that it has served us up until now but that we do not have to let it hold our physicality from experiencing the magnitude of our potential. We can be so much more than our ego let’s us. Let your body speak to you and tell you what it needs. Listen to the wisdom of its physicality to speak the truth of what it can be.

 

Thirty Day’s of Thoughts: Day Three

25 Saturday Feb 2017

Posted by oberonsky in Soul to Soul, Thirty Days of Thoughts, Uncategorized

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bodies in motion, body, changes, faith, health, learning, lessons learned, observations, spirit, spirituality, thoughts, truth

Making Peace with the Physical Self

As I grow older I seem to understand more deeply that I need so much less. As my life grows and I am capable of so much more, I realize there is no need for what I am able to accumulate but rather am freed by the simple and the minimal.

I sit more quietly by myself. There is less external noise needed to cover the voice within that tells me exactly what it is I need for peace and well being. Things no longer necessary are given away to find a home where they may be a necessity for others. If something no longer brings me joy in my immediate space, it no longer carries the positive energy that I deserve in my life.

The journey of the spirit seems to be all about clearing the path, the mind and the body. Yet, clearing of the body seems to be the most difficult of all the tasks. As much as I know about the body, I find it terribly difficult to keep up my body as time passes. The body changes so much and in some cases so quickly. What I know has been capable of this physical self is not as easy as it was 20 years ago.

I struggle with not being able to find the balance between what my brain and my memory understand of the ecstasy of movement and the limitations that have settled in due to not keeping up my training or not paying enough attention on maintaining the best physical tool possible. This conflict has been difficult for me and the hardest to let go of. Acceptance of the physical self has been tough. I wonder if this is a difficult thing for others? I wonder if I just have a heightened sensitivity because of the life I have lived relying on my physical self as much as I have. My body has been my life and yet I am not at peace with my present.

I guess my next spiritual adventure will be to figure out how to make peace with myself in body, mind and spirit. Bit by bit we work towards better understanding ourselves and find peace with what is. Finding peace with what can be and doing what we must to cultivate daily a peaceful life. May I be open to welcoming that peace and doing what I must to open that pathway.

Questions of the Field

01 Tuesday Oct 2013

Posted by oberonsky in Uncategorized

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Ballet, bodies, bodies in motion, Chi, contemporary dance, Dance, Energy, Field, Force, happiness, heart, joy, love, Modern, oneness, open body, open heart, open mind, soul, spirit, spirituality, Technique, Vibration

Is it possible that we are able to turn our vibrations to the frequency of joy and find ourselves in accord with happiness? Is it as simple as refining our current station and allowing ourselves to receive reality as it is rather than as we expect it to be out of choices made from our egos? Is it possible to make decisions about our everyday actions that come from our hearts deepest well of love rather than from our darkest points of fear?

 

It is.

 

All that is required to do so is to be open to the beauty that is acknowledging the incredible and infinite field of energy that is intimately connecting via the receiver of our magnificent bodies.

 

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