Reflections

A love note I wrote for the dancers who meet in Totnes during my travels. I’ve been sending a playlist and a note, and otherwise there are 3 simple chimes during the passage to invite curiosity for dancing alone, and with others.CHOICESTo move in the silenceDance with the chimesPause in the centre as fast music runs by.To caress and conduct Our music of breath,To follow the body as it spirals free.To start small, grow big, To start big, gather small.Over and over in your breathing art.Creativityruns with your choice fuelled by loving, shameless attention.

I’ve been sending love notes, in the form of opening intentions, to the group back in Totnes from California. They have been meeting monthly to dance to a playlist I create for them. Here’s the last love note they read out to begin the dance.——The alchemist of our own dance.The gold is here, in the meeting with breathin that tiny shift of weightor the instinctive call to sink and rise, to grow into your true space.It’s in the listening, receiving, transmitting, adapting.A little more weight, then play for a while,a little more space – around the heart.And what happens if I lift my eyes?Yes what happens? How do you respondas the scales tip, over, under, back to balancein the alchemy of meeting yourself within the world? 

Post by Leela Wendy Fisk.

As part of my writing for embodiment in the corporate word, here’s an article I wrote for Dawn Bentley, a UK business coach.http://aurora4success.blogspot.com/2014/07/sitting-with-stress.html?m=1

Post by Leela Wendy Fisk.

Post by Soul Motion dance practice with leela.

You know some people have angels who keep them safe. Well I have a cosmic clown who pushes me to my edges and I’m rather growing to like him.He’s been preparing me for the big one these last weeks, with the dance studio that often forgets to leave the doors unlocked, its sound system key missing, or the absent heating on cold days. But in the face of it all, he whispers, ‘Find a way woman,’ and chuckles at my determination. He watches me climb through windows, lead without music, orchestrate the improbable in the minutes before dancers arrive – to a dance floor that breathes space.He does this with worthy reason – to guarantee that any small prediction of plan I may harbour gives way to the freedom of reality. In these challenges I am utterly consumed with what needs to happen with no time to daydream of what I would like to happen. The big one, my first residential retreat this weekend – I arrived to find the beautiful dance floor was recently varnished. I stepped upon it and my feet stuck. Of course, there is a choice even as dancers arrive to cancel, but Soul Motion is a practice of going with, and so we did. And there we trust the magic opens. As the long narrow kitchen was cleared of tables to reveal a humble wooden floor I saw one singing dancer rattling a shaker, smiling, with the words, this is going to be a very good workshop. Over my shoulder the clown chuckled at the new edge he had pushed me over. We took a first night silent walk pausing, listening together as the darkness revealed nature’s underside. Dancing, we came across a stone labyrinth, the wonders of white jumping sheep across the night field, and when we arrived back to our weekend home, we christened our new dance floor. Amongst the crockery and pans we danced and sang passage after passage from morning to night. We heard David Whyte’s words in their reality, ‘The kettle is singing even as it pours you a drink, the cooking pots have left their arrogant aloofness and seen the good in you at last.’ And amongst it all, in a role as leader, I remembered the most valuable lesson that my plans would always be too small.

The doorbell rangMy friend surprised meWe lay like schoolgirls on my bed talking.She wept a tearThen I did.We left together,Cycled below the treetops, Fast Calling to one another.I forgot I was nowAnd remembered I was twelve,Until we arrived at school To collect her sonAnd we once again played grown up.‘We never grow old inside,’She reminded me.