 |
|
|
|
SEASON'S GREETINGS
Wishing you health and happiness this Holiday Season and
prosperity in the New Year.
|
|
Warm Greetings to All SoulMotionistas!
|
Dear Ones,
It has been a wonderful year of growth and renewal for Soul Motion. We have so much appreciation for you, our fellow villagers for all you bring to the practice. Enjoy these greetings from Leela, Cindy, Micki and Arjuna. And we, the Soul Motion HeartQuarters staff send you wishes for a spacious, ease filled and soulful holiday season.
Love,
Aletia and Mary
|
|
Soul Motion Certified Teacher, Leela Fisk
|
 I remember the night, two years ago driving down Highway 1, between leading class at Esalen and another in Marin. Arjuna's voice on the phone, 'One teacher, twice a week, for three years. That's how you relax leading this practice Leela.' I've taken him on his word. And it's been no easy task relocating to the Devon, England, where Soul Motion was unheard of. If you imagine a small Esalen group forming quickly in your local studio, God will laugh at your plans. Instead I began alone - to know the practice as my own, to live the practice, and from there to offer the practice in weekly classes revealing my humble soul. The exploration has made a new woman of me. Different terrains call us to walk in new ways and I explore the simplicity of Soul Motion in daily devotion, extending to children, elders, committed groups to classical music, and community evenings. And I hold in my heart my first weekend retreat calling dancers to Devon this April. Am I relaxing yet? I'm enjoying what's happening. I learn to say yes to space. Playlist perfection, and an illusory ability to calculate the future are exchanged for space as preparation. I'd rather trust singing with the ocean, or cycling the hills, and let stillness open through space. These are intimate discoveries, but sharing with community teaches me what I could never know alone. So I thank you. I wish you blessings in the new year dancers.
|
Soul Motion Leadership Apprentice, Cindy Kohlmiller
|
 "Behold the children, and imitate them... They are interested in the present moment, in being curious and in learning, in showing and in sharing, in making and creating." This teaching by Clarissa Pinkola Est�s appears on my kitchen calendar for December. It occurs to me these sentences echo elements of our Soul Motion practice and I can imagine a class based on this inspiration.
I find myself noticing inspiration for classes everywhere. The discovery of Soul Motion teachings in the every day, the playing with concepts and ideas-these are easy for me. As a Soul Motion apprentice I imagine my students being moved by what I have found. And my inquiry, my challenge is how to translate ideas/concepts that speak to me (and translate into my movement) into the language of the body to include all my students.
It occurred to me while I was writing this article that one way to translate concepts into body language is by turning nouns and adjectives (things, descriptions) into verbs (movement). For example, "the spiral" becomes "to spiral;" "tension" becomes "to tense;" "show up" becomes "to show"... It also occurs to me that while there can be distance in the idea (the echo), the movement brings in intimacy (echoing). Yes. I look forward to giving this a try...
At this holiday time and as we prepare to begin again, I wish you spirals and
spiraling, inspiration and inspiring, the dance and dancing...
|
|
Soul Motion Student, Micki Patrick
|
 The Holiday Season is here, and with the New Year coming up, I find myself taking stock. Asking what is important in my life, what do I value most. How do I want to spend my time.I always come back to People as first and foremost.
Some of the most precious people I know I have met through Soul Motion. Soul Motion is for me a home base no matter where the dance may be held. Walking into the room, I see familiar faces or bodies moving through space in a way I recognize, even if we have never spoken. And somehow this is immensely comforting. As an only child on the move... moving to new towns and schools often , I have felt solo through a lot of my life. I no longer feel that way. When I found Soul Motion in 2004 I gradually began to feel part of a Community for the first time. I have made many dear friends over these last few years through Soul Motion. We all have a common language, and it is dance. Through dance we get to know each other without words, without complexity, we meet in an energetic field of possibility. And we have fun doing it.
I want to thank the entire Soul Motion Community, all who participate no matter the level.....you are the cast of characters in the play of our Life. And thank you to the amazing talented and dedicated Teachers too many to list here......and of course our precious Vinn....for making Soul Motion possible in the World.
I wish you all a de"light" full! Holiday Season.
Much love to all
|
|
Season's greetings from Arjuna
|
 Now as the season draws more fully into the transition of endings and beginnings and the colder and shorter days signal to us nature's dance of contracting prior to
blooming of the new, I extend to you and family, Season's Greetings and love in all directions.
May your relations deepen, your work satisfies, and your health soar, all while your dance continues to open and close with a natural beat and melody.
Soul Motion is a living body of work created anew each time teacher and practitioners come together in the play of movement and stillness, outer expression
and depth diving, spiral corridors expanding and receding, inspiration and expression.
You, our students, are the most integral part of any teaching. Every time you arrive open and ready to teach and learn, our practice grows. And it has grown, Thank you!
As Soul Motion continues to expand and transform lives, a vibrant interest in
conscious dance practice and our Embodied Leadership program has inspired
yearly training opportunities here and in Europe.
We at Soul Motion Heart Quarters remain fired up and ready for this opening.
I leave you with a personal resolve for this upcoming year to learn more about being
a transparent teaching, how to diminish my egoic interference and instead dance
more moments of natural as-is reality with you.
I hope you will join in.
Further.
Arjuna loves dances
|
|
From all of us at Soul Motion HeartQuarters
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
