Yes, thank you for sharing Courtney's podcast, Molly -- as soon as I saw the premise, it lit me up as well! (Have always noticed it tends to be the same names getting interviewed on shows and podcasts, folks perhaps more drawn to a public life... I love deep conversations with "unknown" folks I meet in life, people who often have no internet presence, and I want to spend more time with them.) xxx
My study partner and I used to hike with study cards and talk through them aloud and I stood through all of PT school. Me, at my desk in the back with a milk crate to put my books on. By the third year, 8-10 more people had joined me! Now, one of the things I love about my work is my constant movement and only moments of computer work! I’ve been inspired to use ultradian rhythms by you and try to get outside for a brisk walk once a day! Movement is life on earth! Yes! Loved your words!
This inquiry strikes me in a challenging place. I’ve just uncovered a link to why I do not go outside. I WANT to go outside. Laying on my couch in deep sadness, or even in joyful spirits somewhere in my heart or my body says ‘let’s go for a stroll, let’s absorb some sun, let’s go build a fire in the pit and move your limbs to collect wood, feel the tinder, breathe with the flames…’. But….’no’ something responds, in this stuck place. Parts of me want to move, to extract my blobbed form from the cushions, but something has magnetized me, some hidden old story that just in the past week has revealed itself. It feels hard to move still, to do something that defies that old story. But ‘sitting culture’; that’s a statement that conjures images seven generations from now I can’t ignore….
Hi Melissa, thank you for laying bare so tenderly. I also believe there are good nervous system reasons we don't want to move, good reasons to be stuck and frozen and collapsed (my word, not yours). Gentleness with it all. For me, any small moment of difference in the desired direction is worth celebrating. It could be opening the window to allow the breeze in, to smell the outside.
I am so happy to read your words. So much is resonating with me. I just went back to a job where I am moving and standing a lot, so much that I am experiencing all sorts of shifts in the way my body works (or doesn’t and everything in between) and how odd to contemplate that while I have all of this access and freedom to move all over the place at any moment, mostly the students do not. I am excited to incorporate more movement for them and perhaps a little less or a different kind for me. Earlier today, somehow I feel this relates - a student was sharing why she didn’t want to finish a book because it turned out to be another zombie apocalypse story with all of the characters frozen staring off in space and I said without thinking, “maybe, we are in the zombie apocalypse all staring at our devices all the time and that is why this genre is so popular.” I’m also excited to explore this month moving with drums. This past summer I got to dance once a week with drums and it was so invigorating. Then for the past few months it’s been without the drums and it doesn’t grab me the same. Thanks for sharing your words and moves. They showed up at exactly the right moment for me.
Carla, thanks so much for sharing. I love hearing the both/and of your movement noticing. The workings and non-workings of your body within the movement. And yes, wise take on the zombie apocalypse fascination. Dancing with drums sounds absolutely invigorating and rich. Anytime I've done it, it grabs me deeply. I wonder if most people feel that way. Maybe it's in our bones.
Ha ha, yes. And I love all of them. I've had to really examine my own "I will be different" tendencies. When I live in New York City, I was dedicated to kayaking on the Hudson past ocean-liners b/c 'everyone' else was drinking Gin and Tonics and being urban. When I moved here, I saw that 'everyone' was a mountain person meeting some mileage goal and I decided I would be the art person. Truth is, I'm all of those things and interested in not living in reaction to but just doing what I like because I like it. But I can trace all of it back to being the perpetual outsider and new kid as a child who moved every 2 years and having to really make that a positive for myself ("I'm different than you and it's a good thing we are all different") because the alternative of desperately trying to fit in would have been too rough.
Thank you for spreading the word, Molls! So grateful to create alongside you even all these miles away.
You are a gift.
Yes, thank you for sharing Courtney's podcast, Molly -- as soon as I saw the premise, it lit me up as well! (Have always noticed it tends to be the same names getting interviewed on shows and podcasts, folks perhaps more drawn to a public life... I love deep conversations with "unknown" folks I meet in life, people who often have no internet presence, and I want to spend more time with them.) xxx
My study partner and I used to hike with study cards and talk through them aloud and I stood through all of PT school. Me, at my desk in the back with a milk crate to put my books on. By the third year, 8-10 more people had joined me! Now, one of the things I love about my work is my constant movement and only moments of computer work! I’ve been inspired to use ultradian rhythms by you and try to get outside for a brisk walk once a day! Movement is life on earth! Yes! Loved your words!
Sara, This is so so inspiring! Thanks for sharing with us.
This inquiry strikes me in a challenging place. I’ve just uncovered a link to why I do not go outside. I WANT to go outside. Laying on my couch in deep sadness, or even in joyful spirits somewhere in my heart or my body says ‘let’s go for a stroll, let’s absorb some sun, let’s go build a fire in the pit and move your limbs to collect wood, feel the tinder, breathe with the flames…’. But….’no’ something responds, in this stuck place. Parts of me want to move, to extract my blobbed form from the cushions, but something has magnetized me, some hidden old story that just in the past week has revealed itself. It feels hard to move still, to do something that defies that old story. But ‘sitting culture’; that’s a statement that conjures images seven generations from now I can’t ignore….
Thank you for sharing your inquiry.
Hi Melissa, thank you for laying bare so tenderly. I also believe there are good nervous system reasons we don't want to move, good reasons to be stuck and frozen and collapsed (my word, not yours). Gentleness with it all. For me, any small moment of difference in the desired direction is worth celebrating. It could be opening the window to allow the breeze in, to smell the outside.
I am so happy to read your words. So much is resonating with me. I just went back to a job where I am moving and standing a lot, so much that I am experiencing all sorts of shifts in the way my body works (or doesn’t and everything in between) and how odd to contemplate that while I have all of this access and freedom to move all over the place at any moment, mostly the students do not. I am excited to incorporate more movement for them and perhaps a little less or a different kind for me. Earlier today, somehow I feel this relates - a student was sharing why she didn’t want to finish a book because it turned out to be another zombie apocalypse story with all of the characters frozen staring off in space and I said without thinking, “maybe, we are in the zombie apocalypse all staring at our devices all the time and that is why this genre is so popular.” I’m also excited to explore this month moving with drums. This past summer I got to dance once a week with drums and it was so invigorating. Then for the past few months it’s been without the drums and it doesn’t grab me the same. Thanks for sharing your words and moves. They showed up at exactly the right moment for me.
Carla, thanks so much for sharing. I love hearing the both/and of your movement noticing. The workings and non-workings of your body within the movement. And yes, wise take on the zombie apocalypse fascination. Dancing with drums sounds absolutely invigorating and rich. Anytime I've done it, it grabs me deeply. I wonder if most people feel that way. Maybe it's in our bones.
Love your comment about Bozeman athletes. So spot on!
Ha ha, yes. And I love all of them. I've had to really examine my own "I will be different" tendencies. When I live in New York City, I was dedicated to kayaking on the Hudson past ocean-liners b/c 'everyone' else was drinking Gin and Tonics and being urban. When I moved here, I saw that 'everyone' was a mountain person meeting some mileage goal and I decided I would be the art person. Truth is, I'm all of those things and interested in not living in reaction to but just doing what I like because I like it. But I can trace all of it back to being the perpetual outsider and new kid as a child who moved every 2 years and having to really make that a positive for myself ("I'm different than you and it's a good thing we are all different") because the alternative of desperately trying to fit in would have been too rough.