Do you know where you are? Can you feel your backside pressing into the surface on which you are now sitting? Can you feel your head sitting on the perch of your neck, head swiveling gently so your eyes can survey your surroundings?
What do your eyes take in? Can you see colors? Are they bright or muted? Can you see lines? Can you see the ones that are curved and the ones that are straight? Can you see shapes?
Turn your attention to your hearing. Can you hear the gentle hum of a dishwasher in the background or the furnace turning on and off? Can you hear the swish of cars that pass? The voices of roommates or people on the street?
Can you feel your fingers and toes and know exactly where they are in space? Can you turn your attention to your breathing, to the breath flowing in and out? Can you feel your heartbeat or pulse?
Now imagine that you are a dancer. Imagine that you are about to activate yourself into concentrated, sustained and complicated motion that includes all of the awarenesses above.
Imagine that you are propelling, bursting, stopping, resting, pulling, pushing, rotating, jumping, falling, and spinning.
Imagine that you are making patterns in space and in time. There is a pulse, there is a rhythm, there is a melodic line. Da-da-da-da-DA-dada, da-da-da-da-dadada-dadada.
You are in the swim of it. You are it.
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