Let's unlock ourselves and pass on the keys...

Sometimes I find myself like being frozen. My body is tense, my mind is racing around. To the outside there is no movement but inside there is a lot of intensity and often anxiety. There seems to be no space to come up with a solution for present problems or projects. I am frozen in my old ways of thinking and doing things. My small "me" has put me in a cage. I am stuck like a prisoner.
 
In those times I wished that I could be free. To be free for me means to be present, curious and connected to the natural movement of life. When I feel connected to my core, my essence, this is easy.
But often I am caught up like in a spider's web or a tight cage, a layer of something that obstructs the light, my movement, my breath. When I am caught in the spider's web, my mind is not rational and certainly not in the present. It is plotting, planning, catastrophizing or just dull. My body hurts like I have a chronic illness. My muscles are tight, holding the old ways in place. When I notice my mind and body doing these things, I know I am caught and frozen and not connected to my core and in the flow of life. But the core is there - unharmed, just below that layer of the spiderweb.
 
There is a way, to free myself. I have the key to unlock myself from the cages that my inner small "me" has constructed for me.... We all own the keys to our aliveness ourselves.... They are right here in our bodies.
We just have to remember where they are.
Our Core Connexion sessions are times for me where I can remember myself and remember where those keys are.   
 
How do we do this?  
First of all, I need to remember that there is an unharmed core inside of me. It might not seem like that in the moment, but it is important to remember times in our lives when we felt connected to our core and fully present. I need to understand that my awareness is temporarily caught up in a layer and not connected to the core. It will change.
 
Second: I start to direct my awareness away from the layer and towards a core experience. I invite presence through sensing my body. That is the key. I sense gravity, breath, body and the surrounding space. I create a sacred space were everything is embraced through inviting an accepting attitude towards myself and life. When everything is embraced, I actually start to feel safe to open...
 
Third: When I start to meet my aliveness, my life force with awareness, then I also start to move. I become a moving meditation, a swirling dervish, a galloping horse, a jumping dolphin,....Then there is only gratitude. Gratitude that I am alive, breathing, dancing,...Then I am free. Then there is flow and strength, breath and flexibility, then there is capacity and openness for new ways. The door to the prison has opened.  
 
Let's unlock ourselves and pass the key ....
Looking forward to dancing with you tonight...
 
Ongoing sessions:

Wednesday 7- 9pm, Bfuu, 1924 Cedar Str, Berkeley

Sunday 10am - noon, Studio 12, 2525 8th Str, Berkeley

see you on the dance floor soon
Eva