December 2nd 2023 at Helen’s dance

10.00-11.30
104 Av. Victor Hugo, 1750 Luxembourg

Connecting to the inner child

I made a lot of Christmas cookies this week with our grand-children. And every time the smell of cinnamon, vanilla or gingerbread wafted up to my nose, I felt transported back to my childhood.

I bought lots of little gifts, little nothings, nuts, mandarins… to put in the pockets of the Advent calendar and on the plates for Saint Nicholas… I felt like I was back in my childhood: the impatience, the excitement, the surprise.

Reminiscences emerged from the depths of my memory, the memory of the child who slumbers in me and in all of us: the inner child.

“In every adult, there lurks a child, an eternal child, something that is always becoming, is never completed and calls for unceasing care, attention and education. That is the part of the human personality which wants to develop and become whole.
Our inner child possesses the spirit of truthfulness, absolute spontaneity, genuineness and represents renewal, divinity, a zest for life, a sense of wonder, hope, the future, discovery, courage…”                                                                                                      Carl Jung

I told myself that dancing with these smells, these textures, these memories could hold some wonderful discoveries in store for us this Saturday.

I’m aware that not all memories of our childhood, of our child emotions are easy to encounter.
The inner child reflects the child we once were in both his or her ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ aspects. Both our childlike innocence, creativity, and joy, as well as our unmet needs and suppressed childhood emotions, are still waiting within of us.

In dance, we can go to these places, the joys and the wounds. Dance opens us up to our innate creativity, truthfulness, authenticity.

“Let us listen to the needs of our inner child that is being tamed and imprisoned by the rules of a grown-up world”
                                                                                                                      Erik Pevernagie

Let’s listen to the voice of our inner child, let’s dance on the rhythm of that voice, let’s “take our crayons out of the box”:

“Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kinder garden. Then when you hit puberty, they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history…. Being suddenly hit years later with the ‘creative bug’ is just a wee voice telling you, ‘I’d like my crayons back, please.”
                                                                                                                       Hugh MacLeod

Come and join us on a common floor and in a common dance!
Good music is going to support us in our explorations.

Price: 25 €
You can pay cash at the beginning of the class
You can use PayPal if you have an accountYou can use Payconiq
You can transfer 25€ on my Bank Account IBAN LU85 0024 1521 8570 0000
Wear comfortable clothes in layers, you might like also to wear socks at the beginning or during the whole class
Bring your bottle of water or tea… and the willingness to meet your inner child…