45, rue de l’Avenir
L-1147 Luxembourg-Limpertsberg
10.00pm-11.30pm (come a few minutes earlier to chang without hurry:-)
Center
In a world full of war, uncertainty, fear, and the challenges of climate change, Center is a valuable resource because it helps us stay grounded and balanced when things around us are difficult. But Center isn’t about escaping or hiding from the world—it’s about finding strength inside ourselves while still staying connected to everything around us.
Center is like an ongoing conversation between who we are inside and what’s happening outside. It changes and grows as the world changes. When we are centered, we can deal with life’s problems without getting lost in fear or chaos. It helps us respond calmly and thoughtfully, instead of reacting without thinking.
This ability to stay balanced while facing the world’s challenges gives us the strength to keep going. We can adapt, stay grounded, and still stay open and connected to the people and the world around us. Center helps us face life with steadiness and confidence, even when things are hard.
For our Open Floor class next Saturday, I have been inspired by the poems Love after Love by Derek Walcott and The Journey by Mary Oliver.
Both poems talk about the important journey of coming back to yourself, finding your own strength, and reconnecting with who you really are. These ideas fit perfectly with the concept of Center, which is all about staying grounded and true to yourself in the middle of life’s changes.
Love after Love
The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread, Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
Derek Walcott
The Journey
“One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice —
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
‘Mend my life!’
each voice cried.
But you didn’t stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do —
determined to save
the only life you could save.”
Mary Oliver
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 account
You 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 curiosity and the willingness to center …
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