Walk Gently…
Walk gently
with feet that listen tenderly.
It is my body you mark with each step.
Know yourself by the feel of the air
as it breathes through the pores of your skin.
It is my soul you breathe
in your lungs in your blood in your heart.
Regard the weather well.
As you march through the heat that burns water dry
it is the dust of my skin you spit aside.
And when the rains fall, take care
As muddy checks distort and slide.
In between rain and sun, life takes root and grows
with a joy that veers toward ecstasy.
Come often, lest paths carved out over years disappear.
Life shoots up any place it can.
Certain small deaths are necessary.
But walk gently, with feet that listen tenderly and give you strength.
It is my body that supports you as you mark it with each step.
It is my face beneath your feet at the summit
where the wind blows free and unhindered.
—
Ann Moradian, April 15, 2009
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Reading the Body
I hadn’t realized when I touched your hand,
or you touched mine, that I hold the hand of your mother,
the empty space your lover has left
embracing you like armor…
your cat’s fur caressing my skin…
I hear a child crying and run with you
ahead of the rush of water
that mounts canyon walls…
What is this weaving when we meet,
when each of us carries already an entire universe?
—
Ann Moradian, 2009
© Ann Moradian. All rights reserved.
Ann Moradian is a movement artist, educator, writer and researcher with an MA in Dance Education, BA in Art & Society, a diploma in Improvisation & Creativity, yoga, the martial arts and classical dance training certifications, as well as certifications in social design and systems thinking. Originally a dancer and choreographer, Ann performed in New York in the companies of Anna Sokolow, Manuel Alum, Impulse Theatre & Dance and Perspectives In Motion, which she founded in 1988. Today, her work focuses on the relationships between movement, healthy ecologies and conscious evolution through diverse movement and interdisciplinary projects. Voted Best Yoga in Paris in 2016. Ann speaks on behalf of the body and its wisdom, which she sees as a critical aspect of the deep transformations needed to shift destructive patterns of living to sane, healthy and ecologically viable patterns of participation.
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