Forever Shifting
Jun 6th, 2008 by Dunya
A dancer friend just wrote to me that, at 60, she is rewiring herself.
Rewiring––a good way of putting it. It seems to happen every decade or so––I search for my new body, and that new body is truly new…The sense of my mind stays the same, but my body moves right along. Is this why humanity so often wants to identify with thoughts and is keen to cast off the body, which is forever shifting?
This is my last day before the Summer Movement Monastery begins. I shift a big notch inward during the days of intensive retreat. As normal daily life spins faster and faster into information, the more I cherish this tiny oasis carved out with other Dancemeditators to gather our bodies in space, in wordless-ness, free of computers for seven hours each day. We push back projects and accomplishments, and let the juice of unconsious unwinding, re-wiring, and creation happen free from the need to constantly manifest.
I’m also nervous. And I don’t know why…
I wondered vaguely the other day during our weekly one hour session if the impending retreat was affecting us; if others of our little order have been preping enough to have caused a communal *shift*. I’ve never gotten this particular group to go ‘very deep’. I’ve always assumed it was because we only had an hour and all but one of the participants are completely new to this sort of work. There were only 4 people, but the energy got heavy enough that all of them ended up on the floor and I actually had to say “Time to wake up” 10 minutes before session was over. That’s never happened and I know that we *all* shifted, even myself, the watcher. Much love – with you all in spirit.
~S