On frying pans, snowboard, Australia and a moment
Dear dancers,
These days I cannot resist feeling how much life can change in a split second. And how those seconds become minutes, hours and days that make one moment into a habit, a condition or a change. How much we don’t know what’s on the road ahead and how much, oh how much we actually have.
In the same week, in the same day my heart was broken by the fires in Australia, by all the Life there, all the people, animals, plants and the conditions they are in. And then the same heart unfolded into the joy of life laughing out loud with 6 friends snowboarding in the Austrian Alps.
Though this time snowboarding was a bit different. When I got on my board the first day I felt enormous pain in my foot – the consequence of a frying pan being dropped by someone on my foot just two weeks ago. As I was coming down the slope I was feeling how much my body, both of my ankles and my knees have changed. For a moment I was terrified – what if this is now the way it is? What if I need to give snowboarding up in order to continue dancing and walking through life the way I want to walk? What if this is becoming my life – aching joints, caution and slow pace? And how much I love the sense of freedom on that snow, I cannot even begin to describe.
One particular moment, one Sunday lunch, cooking, one frying pan and one accident can change the direction of life… and once again in that moment I thought of Australia that among many other things brought the perspective to that moment in my heart.
Even though on the one hand my joint is only a metaphor for all the painful sudden changes I have experienced so far, sitting on the snow on top of the mountain I was reminded by the Sun of everything I have received in my life, of everything I have – we have – everyday around us and often forget to appreciate. To walk on two healthy feet, to be alive in this body is a privilege.
And if you ask me, the answer is not either/or, who suffers more and what is worse. The answer is to feel it all, the self, the joint, the knee, the snow, the mountain, friends, joy, sadness, anger, change, Australia, forests, nature and everything around us,
And by all means I don’t think that’s easy. But I think it’s being human, alive and real. And what supports me in it is the dance. It teaches me to move with whatever Life brings me, to build resources to live with it and to choose the beauty of life that exists in every moment. It teaches us to use the privileges we have to the best of our abilities, to give what we have to ourselves, others and everything around us as much as we can. To love shamelessly as long as we’re here.
Therefore this month 3 chances to dance with me here in Zagreb and 1 in Warsaw.
18/1/2020 Healing Power of the Body – open evening with Anna Sierpowska (Warsaw)
24/1/2020 Movement Medicine: DANCE IT OUT! – evening class (Zagreb)
26/1/2020 Women’s Circle (Zagreb)
31/1/2020 Inner Guidance – Movement Medicine Ceremony (Zagreb)
See you on the dance floor!
Love,
Kaya