What movement now?

Or another mantra... 

"What movement does my body want, right now?" Starting from where I am, from what is already occurring. Naming the moment, the movement, the emotional meaning as I follow my body's urges. 

Trusting that it knows how to pace itself, how to take care of itself, how to lean in, or hang back, how to sway and swirl, twist and twirl, skip and slide, without strain, without push or try, without bang or wrench or yank or snap. Trusting that to observe and go along for the ride is the greatest gift to my flesh, the greatest gift to my spirit. 

This is life work...my life work...the work my soul came into flesh to do. This is the ground of my story. This learning to weave body and mind and heart into one life tapestry is living on purpose. 

Sometimes it feels as if I have it all figured out. Sometimes I am still trying to piece it together from what has actually happened...just as my body is built through the daily actions of sitting, breathing, walking, loving, crying and dancing. 

Discovering who I am must be an embodied question. All the threads are always both their own color and texture, all embedded in my body, my movement patterns, my mind patterns, and part of the whole pattern. 

Story by Story, I weave my life together.