10.00-11.30
104 Av. Victor Hugo, 1750 Luxembourg
Last Saturday we explored the resource of activating and settling, of being active and being still.
At first glance, you might think that settling would mean pausing.
But there’s a clear difference:
Settling after activating is finding ground and centre and it often brings a dance to a close. Pausing gives a new impetus, a new direction, it is alive and mobilised.
When we pause, we listen to ourselves, we are alert, on the alert, we take the time to investigate what we feel in our body, in our heart, in our mind, in our soul. We can follow our impulses and our intuition because we will have given ourselves a chance to find out if what we are doing is really what we aspire to and if it corresponds to our truth.
Pausing means, that we suspend for a short time our action, our dance and that we listen for What is, Where it is located in the body and move from there as opposed to bypassing which is standing back from ourselves. During the pause we might suspend our movement but all our senses are sharpened, listening, feeling, ready to make a choice. From there, with that choice, we continue to move.
Pause offers us a choice, and we won’t be the same after the pause. It allows us not to be swept up in and by the action but to hold the reins of our actions.
When we’re busy doing things almost mechanically, like a hamster turning in the cage, we don’t question what we’re doing or why and how we’re doing it. To pause is to stop the wheel in the cage, to probe what is really there in the moment and to give ourselves the chance to follow the impulses that are revealed in the pause.
Pause is an art, because it opens up new paths, new creations. Pausing also means risking something, because we don’t know what comes after the pause. A tiny change? Or a major turnaround?
Taking a pause requires honesty and acknowledgement.
And at the risk of writing the same thing twice, I’ll quote Tara Brach here:
When we pause, we don’t know what will happen next. But by disrupting our habitual behaviors, we open to the possibility of new and creative ways of responding to our wants and fears. Through the sacred art of pausing, we develop the capacity to stop hiding, to stop running away from our experience. We begin to trust in our natural intelligence, in our naturally wise heart, in our capacity to open to whatever arises.
Tara Brach: Radical Acceptance
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
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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 bring your love for movement, music, your curiosity and your willingness to pause…
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