WORDS OF WISDOM
Reach Out is the process of bridging allowing and extending. By letting one movement naturally unfold and initiating lengthening into the next, you venture out further with curiosity, bridging ease and challenge. As you inspire yourself to take the next step and move somewhere beyond where you are now, your trust in yourself increases and your willingness to reach into new uncharted territory expands.
Reach Out develops equalized tension based on continual unwinding and spiraling motion. It connects the fluid system, where everything is soft and open, with the muscular system, where everything is firm and engaged. This tension and engagement naturally occurs when you reach in opposing directions. Opposing reaching creates greater polarities, which in turn generate enormous energy for movement. In your life, this polarity of equalized tension creates an opportunity for you to take your next step out into the world while reaching more deeply into yourself. This develops your capacity to balance opposites of all kinds, such as: forward/back, up/ down, right/left, light/heavy, strong/weak, small/big, acceptance/judgment, confidence/doubt, etc.
Reach Out is the movement form which creates links and bridges polarities. In nature, opposites always exist to maintain balance. As movement continues to occur, the balance is constantly shifting, generating a new balance point every second. Reach Out is practical training for creating and maintaining balance in a world of shifting change. In Reach Out, you create bridges inside your body and into the world – connecting the inner to the outer, fluid to tissues, tissues to bone, the me to you –unfolding and unwinding internally as you reach out externally. By moving incrementally in opposing directions simultaneously, you expand on balanced pathways. This creates tremendous fluid stretching throughout the entire body.
In relationship, Reach Out guides you into reaching simultaneously into yourself and out to another, creating connection. This cultivates the ability to meet another and reach into their world while remaining centered and present in your self.
BENEFITS:
Reach Out …
• Creates more elastic, pliable and flexible tissues, muscles and joints
• Helps link internal and external awareness and the ability to hold opposites
• Develops your ability to self manage; physically, emotionally and mentally
When we are babies, there is a tremendous amount of internal movement occurring, but very little externally visible. As we develop, we very naturally begin to reach out into the world with our fingers and toes, exploring with great curiosity what our bodies can and will do. Before long, the innate desire to hold up our heads, roll over, crawl, walk and run spurs us on to further discovery. The natural development that we see so easily in babies continues throughout every stage in life. However, the curiosity and motivation for discovery often gets shut down in the process of growing up. In order to survive, we adapt to patterns of movement that limit that reaching into unknown territories. That is why it is so important to be guided to once again reawaken your natural curiosity and reach further, not only through our bodies, but also into relationships and every aspect of life. Having this encouragement to move further than what is familiar is absolutely necessary to enter places that have been previously shut down and avoided.
Dance Alive provides a safe and encouraging learning environment to take you from the cocoon within to the world beyond with confidence and security, inspiring you to move into greater action!
