WORDS OF WISDOM
Until there’s a mountain to climb and you climb it, you can’t feel your power. Until you face resistance and move through it, you don’t build strength. What Dance Alive teaches is how to develop the capacity to meet a challenging situation without hurting yourself or another and how to exert an appropriate amount of energy for your unique system, physically, emotionally and mentally.
When you enter into a situation with the idea of powering through it (using will power and force), you end up damaging yourself or someone else. Will power and force, which are based on domination and control, always backfire. The power you are being guided to access in Dance Alive comes from being aware of and connected to your essence and knowing your strength and limitations. The way you discover your strength and limitations is by testing them out and receiving feedback. When you evaluate the feedback, you can then choose to back off or exert more.
Power Up teaches you to be able to stay with an action even when you don’t feel like it. When you give up and say, “I can’t do it,” you’ve let a situation take over. Instead, Power Up trains you to be able to say, “I don’t know how I can do this, however, I know I can learn
Power Up primarily accesses the muscular system. It enables you to move with strength as you utilize resistance internally and externally. The use of resistance increases your ability to define structure and maintain contact. Through the incremental movement of contraction and release, you learn how to gracefully utilize your structure as a natural support system for generating action. This trains you to be self-reliant as you increase the effort you are exerting.
In relationship, Power Up guides you to create harmonious resistance appropriate to the power levels between you so that no one is dominating or being dominated. It increases your ability to meet confrontation and to create and maintain separation from another person’s experience. In addition, it teaches you how to be respectful of and work within structure so that you can fit into systems and team play.
BENEFITS:
Power Up…
• Develops core conditioning, strength and stamina
• Increases your ability to manage your emotions
• Strengthens your capacity to define boundaries and maintain structure.to do it with practice, if I’m willing to pay the full price.” The price is the investment and effort it will require to learn to do the action. This empowers you to take yourself further and include discomfort, boredom or fatigue as part of the process of building strength.
Maintaining your focus when you are bored builds focus; engaging more as you’re tired builds endurance; allowing yourself to feel uncomfortable and continue to move builds confidence. You are being trained to develop power by continuing to open, feel, and move fluidly as you engage your core muscles and build your core strength.
Power Up trains you to identify, bridge and strengthen where you are strong and weak. This connection between your strengths and weaknesses enables you to create more balance across board and through your whole system.
In relationship, the same is true. Strength in relationship manifests as stability, consistency, and dependability. Where someone is strong, they are reliable and their word is backed by action. Power Up builds your ability to work with strength and limitation in relationship. Only then do you have the power to transform, grow and endure challenge within a relationship.
