tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8410868526226636252024-03-12T20:32:58.086-07:00the air and i are the greatest of friendsChay-Yahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17132994789739793838noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-841086852622663625.post-29907394441147082582011-01-16T04:21:00.001-08:002011-01-16T04:21:50.069-08:00In a Handful of God<br />
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Poetry reveals that there is no empty space.<br />
<br />
When your truth forsakes its shyness,<br />
When your fears surrender to your strengths,<br />
You will begin to experience<br />
<br />
That all existence<br />
Is a teeming sea of infinite life.<br />
<br />
In a handful of ocean water<br />
You could not count all the finely tuned<br />
Musicians<br />
<br />
Who are acting stoned<br />
For very intelligent and sane reasons<br />
<br />
And of course are becoming extremely sweet<br />
And wild.<br />
<br />
In a handful of the sky and earth,<br />
In a handful of God,<br />
<br />
We cannot count<br />
All the ecstatic lovers who are dancing there<br />
Behind the mysterious veil.<br />
<br />
True art reveals there is no void<br />
Or darkness.<br />
<br />
There is no loneliness to the clear-eyed mystic<br />
In this luminous, brimming<br />
Playful world<br />
<br />
-- HafizChay-Yahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17132994789739793838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-841086852622663625.post-71275365087231133962011-01-13T00:35:00.001-08:002011-01-13T00:35:05.663-08:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><strong><a href="http://www.corporeality.net/" style="color: #cc6600; text-decoration: underline;">corporeality</a>, the reality of having a body. </strong>the quality of being physical; consisting of matter.</span>Chay-Yahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17132994789739793838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-841086852622663625.post-46166473577018302032010-12-06T17:09:00.001-08:002010-12-06T17:09:40.307-08:00Awareness of breath leads me to realise that my body is 'my breath'.Chay-Yahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17132994789739793838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-841086852622663625.post-64645116299412420962010-10-22T20:10:00.001-07:002010-10-22T20:10:26.530-07:00There is no separation we are air<br />
-- David SuzukiChay-Yahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17132994789739793838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-841086852622663625.post-69247376569370324932010-10-22T15:01:00.001-07:002010-10-22T15:02:20.588-07:00Point of balance<br />
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can you trace a line along all the tiny moments of balance?Chay-Yahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17132994789739793838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-841086852622663625.post-65217826053427123852010-10-22T15:00:00.001-07:002010-10-22T15:00:09.352-07:00The air has weightChay-Yahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17132994789739793838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-841086852622663625.post-79974869734427830972010-10-16T04:23:00.000-07:002010-10-16T04:23:18.685-07:00People often talk about performers having ‘presence’ as if they have an innate charm that the rest of us are born without. For me, presence is about being aware: of myself – how I move, my feeling state, thoughts which come and go, and my environment – the people and the space around me.<br />
As an improvisor how I carry out an action is more important than what the action is. By being in the here and now I realise there is nothing I have to do. I follow my curiosity which can lead to the unfolding of many possibilities: the telling of a story, the singing of a melody, a dance or the emerging of a character.<br />
--<a href="http://katehilder.com/category/practise-presence/">Kate Hilder</a><br />
<br />
Presence Practise No 1<br />
The Orchestra of Sound<br />
There is a constant orchestra of sound which accompanies us day to day. Pay attention to the sounds that you hear: bird song, car engines, footsteps, people’s voices, your breath…………is there ever silence or does silence have a sound too?Chay-Yahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17132994789739793838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-841086852622663625.post-79984181367700552462010-10-16T04:20:00.001-07:002010-10-16T04:20:20.671-07:00“Just sit on your chair and wait. Don't even wait, just listen. Don't even listen, just be still and open and the world will come in to you and unfold itself in its glory.”<br />
--source unknownChay-Yahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17132994789739793838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-841086852622663625.post-53891347507473505172010-10-04T05:31:00.001-07:002010-10-04T05:31:55.613-07:00Kami hilang dan bahagia di tempat yang kami tidak memilih. Kita berbohong kepada diri kita sendiri dan berpura-pura bahwa ada kemenangan di antara ... kekacauan. Kami berubah menjadi debu selama situasi kacau ini. Tapi bagaimanapun, kami memilih untuk hidup. Kesadaran hidup menjadi tidak penting. Tidak peduli di mana kami berada tidak benar-benar berbeda, Bangkok, Jakarta, Tokyo, Paris, New York. Kita hanya mengalir sepanjang dan terjebak dengan sesuatu yang membuat diri kita merasa layak untuk sementara waktu. Kami hanya hanya sebuah molekul di alam semesta yang mencoba menangkap kebenaran di dalamnya. Kita berada di: Sebuah Perang Tanpa Medan , Sebuah Perang Tanpa Musuh, Sebuah Perang Di Mana-mana, Perang Tanpa Akhir ..!<br />
<br />
We lost and happy in the place that we didn’t choose. We lied to ourselves and pretended that was a victory among... the chaos. We turned to dust during this chaotic situation. But anyway, we chose to live. Life consciousness did not matter. No matter where we were that was not really different, Bangkok, Jakarta, Tokyo, Paris, New York. We only flow along and stuck with something that made ourselves felt worth for a while. We were just only a molecule in the universe that tried to catch the truth inside. We’re in : A War Without A Battle Field, A War Without An Enemy, A War That Is Everywhere, A War Without End…..!<br />
<br />
--<br />
http://performanceklub.blogspot.com/Chay-Yahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17132994789739793838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-841086852622663625.post-18746637274750213912010-10-03T20:32:00.001-07:002010-10-03T20:32:58.033-07:00+++ Barbara Dukas: Where the voice inhabits http://www.schwelle7.de/Barbara%20Dukas.html +++<br />
<br />
The seminars of ‘body memory arousal’ refer to the behaviour of the human body prior to the conciousness’s or emotion’s entanglement.<br />
They touch upon the domain of Theatre Anthropology, but they connect to many types of theatre, dance and various performances, solo or group behaviour, when human body is obligated to ‘expose itself’.<br />
The training approach is based on the ability of the human body to produce sounds, that means emotions and situations, before the text comes, on its own energy power, and without any rational or psychological intervention.<br />
The sound inhabites inside our body and not ‘somewhere out there…’<br />
Years of work with deaf people have proved that with the proper guidance we don’t need the ear to hear our inner voice as sound has weight, vibration, and colour inside our inner cavities and could heal even some type of illness.<br />
Civilization’s blocks, specially in our chest and pelvis,- these i personally and with humor, call ‘Froyd and Christianism ’ – usually block the body and consequently our breath and voice.<br />
In this first approach training we can hear our voice as we never herd it before.<br />
Having for the rest of our lives some special tips, we can relax in a few minutes, find our voice and breath, produce sound, and even if we are dancers and we are not suppose to talk on stage, our body could look different, more stable, more ‘open’,more ‘erotic’ and ready to be offered as a gift to the audience.<br />
Some of these tips, greek actors learn, to confront big, open ancient theatres, and are obliged to replace the huge masks, ancient actors wear to multiply their loudspeaker. In our days that technology replaced everything, the emotion that human voice ‘nude’ in space can produce is the only irreplaceable sentiment.Chay-Yahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17132994789739793838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-841086852622663625.post-83399410391836022792010-09-26T13:47:00.000-07:002010-09-26T13:47:23.855-07:00What does it mean to be ready to dance at any time, with anyone, anywhere? There are no set formulas, however, there is an attitude of body-mind that can be cultivated to bring us to that place of total alertness-to go beyond thinking our way through the dance and attune us to what is actually taking place.<br />
-- Andrew de Lotbinière Harwood, Being Ready: An Intermediate/Advanced Course in Contact ImprovisationChay-Yahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17132994789739793838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-841086852622663625.post-91138853220287559862010-09-12T17:08:00.001-07:002010-09-12T17:08:19.344-07:00In a human body, support is not something solid. Support is relationship. Support is a balance of elements that aren't solid at all, elements that are incapable of withstanding the weight that presses down on them except as they are balanced. Could you translate this balance as tone? I don't know. I don't know what tone is in words, only in experience. I once equated it with span, but I don't know how to define span. When you get span in a body, you get tone; when you get tone, you get span. Span is a spatial thing; tone is physiological. Both words refer to balanced structure in a living body. Both tone and span indicate a readiness to act and respond that is the touchstone of a healthy body. <br />
--Ida Rolf, talking about Rolfing and Physical Reality, p181Chay-Yahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17132994789739793838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-841086852622663625.post-56118557284705079202010-08-24T21:31:00.001-07:002010-08-24T21:31:56.689-07:00Its been so long since moving, what is it to dance when your brain has taken you elsewhere, somewhere far away.<br />
where am i inside this body? this is not like disassociation, this is different, i am here,<br />
but what is it to move inside here,<br />
in a body that touchs air?<br />
<br />
all surfaces meeting, in a body that is aerated and all air,<br />
i am all air and water<br />
meeting surfaces of air and water<br />
<br />
<br />
-- movement exploration in Nicola's class at Cecil Street<br />
25 August 2010Chay-Yahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17132994789739793838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-841086852622663625.post-83180598471282573242010-08-24T21:29:00.000-07:002010-08-24T21:29:16.811-07:00soft slanted writing<br />
on the edge of the lead<br />
line is thicker, bloodful<br />
noise, images, repetition<br />
of the same words have<br />
been filling my head lately <br />
go someplace noiseless<br />
not just in me but all<br />
around. the outside<br />
permeates to core, the<br />
inside part of me overflows<br />
in particle particular<br />
dissolving outflow.<br />
All same, dancing aroms,<br />
different many varied<br />
densities.<br />
What I perceive as dense<br />
is aerated, what is perceived<br />
as air has atomic<br />
gravity.<br />
Im not sure if space is<br />
the opposite to gravity. im not<br />
sure if it is space that<br />
is all the buoyancy, what<br />
are we considering here?<br />
physics? consciousness?<br />
experience? somatics?<br />
oneness? differing densities<br />
the city of dens and<br />
holes and cavaties and<br />
tunnels and moles and beavers<br />
and ants.<br />
to imagine the size of the<br />
earth I am lying on I had<br />
to imagine myself as being much<br />
smaller, the size of an ant at<br />
least, scale everything down<br />
so my imagination could cope<br />
with and hold onto<br />
something way too big for my<br />
brain to deal with.<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">my writing from </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">bmc study group with kim wishart 26 July 2010</span>Chay-Yahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17132994789739793838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-841086852622663625.post-14864100004633240542010-07-25T03:01:00.001-07:002010-07-25T03:01:13.685-07:00Electrolytes are salts with electricity conductive properties. Throughout our body tissue, fluid, and blood, electrolytes conduct charges that are essential for muscle contraction, heart beats, fluid regulation, and general nerve function. <br />
-- Brendan Brazier author of The Thrive DietChay-Yahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17132994789739793838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-841086852622663625.post-20258575459842182502010-07-19T23:00:00.001-07:002010-09-12T17:15:44.932-07:00Perhaps the genius of ultra running is its supreme lack of utility. It makes no sense in a world of space ships and supercomputers to run vast distances on foot. There is no money in it and no fame, frequently not even the approval of peers. But as poets, apostles and philosophers have insisted from the dawn of time, there is more to life than logic and common sense. The ultra runners know this instinctively. And they know something else that is lost on the sedentary. They understand, perhaps better than anyone, that the doors to the spirit will swing open with physical effort. In running such long and taxing distances they answer a call from the deepest realms of their being -- a call that asks who they are.<br />
-- David Blaikie, Ultramarathon Canada <a href="http://barefootjason.blogspot.com/2010/03/terra-plana-vivo-barefoots-new-evo-is.html">from here</a>Chay-Yahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17132994789739793838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-841086852622663625.post-90155487225485145152010-07-18T04:54:00.001-07:002010-07-19T23:06:10.310-07:00The great mystery of sleep in our lives is that we can know so little about it... consider that we spend roughly a third of our lives sleeping... <br />
<br />
"Once we are conscious we can suddenly see where we are - we are able to see our seeing. Hear our Hearing. Touch our touching and feel our feeling With consciousness we can be where we are. Consciousness is the doorway through which we enter dreamscape. <br />
<br />
--Charles MacPhee, 1968.Chay-Yahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17132994789739793838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-841086852622663625.post-10837163900841009962010-07-17T22:26:00.000-07:002010-07-17T22:26:33.475-07:00Timing, in contrast to time, is active.<br />
<br />
Timing is not a footnote in reality, it is a dramatic and integral partner in evolution.<br />
--Perelandra, 1985Chay-Yahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17132994789739793838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-841086852622663625.post-13301670107215683862010-06-27T04:44:00.000-07:002010-06-27T04:44:30.152-07:00Drawing is both a verb and a noun; it is both an act and the resultant images.<br />
<a href="http://http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=ounikdr0153g1">constellations at rmit gallery</a>Chay-Yahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17132994789739793838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-841086852622663625.post-2449525640198331642010-06-23T03:12:00.001-07:002010-06-23T03:12:47.804-07:00Awake, my dear. Be kind to your sleeping heart. Take it out into the vast fields of Light<br />
And let it breathe.<br />
HafizChay-Yahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17132994789739793838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-841086852622663625.post-63162731875057672192010-06-21T16:30:00.000-07:002010-06-21T16:34:18.692-07:00Isabel: the thing that fascinates me in terms of content is really performance itself. I’m finally coming to understand that I’m just obsessed with this form and, it’s not specific to dance because it has more to do with this live act, this action, this experience of what it is to perform. Whatever it is that you are performing, whether it’s music, text, dance, or whatever. But the condition of performing, what that is, is really fascinating and bizarre and strange<br />
<br />
Levi: I feel like it’s a container or space where so much happens that I’ll never really be able to understand it all, or analyze it, or pick it apart. And that’s what’s exciting about it. That you create all of these conditions and structures, as many as you can possibly think of and maybe it’s about rehearsal, maybe it’s not, but then you enter into that space and it’s so beyond comprehension somehow. Energetically, intellectually…<br />
<br />
Isabel: I love performing and I’m terrified of performing and I always hated the thought of making a solo. By nature, I have a very shy interior and at the same time I find something in this act of performing that’s so liberating and bizarre. It does have to do with the unattainability of really understanding it. I am so critical in the way that my brain works; I like to really understand things and pick things apart and analyze, and performance is always so fresh to me, every single time no matter what it is I’m performing.<br />
-- Isabel Lewis <a href="http://movementresearch.org/publishing/?q=node/679">in conversation</a> with Levi GonzalezChay-Yahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17132994789739793838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-841086852622663625.post-30501959420460996512010-06-21T16:03:00.001-07:002010-06-21T16:03:58.470-07:00Dance is the breath made visible.<br />
-- Anna HalprinChay-Yahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17132994789739793838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-841086852622663625.post-86027614899766925072010-06-21T02:05:00.001-07:002010-06-21T02:05:35.940-07:00<span style="font-size: large;">the body itself is a screen to shield and partially reveal the light blazing inside your presence</span><br />
-- RumiChay-Yahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17132994789739793838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-841086852622663625.post-36051573825416132010-06-21T01:14:00.000-07:002010-06-21T01:18:25.004-07:00The time bound mode of consciousness is deeply embedded in the human psyche. But what we are doing here is part of a profound transformation that is taking place in the collective consciousness of the planet and beyond: the awakening of consciousness from the dream of matter, form and separation - the ending of time. We are breaking mind patterns that have dominated human life for eons.<br />
-- Eckhart Tolle from his book The Power of NowChay-Yahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17132994789739793838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-841086852622663625.post-6489264678256207682010-06-21T01:08:00.000-07:002010-06-21T01:08:39.570-07:00<span style="font-size: large;">This touching, handling, manipulating of living human bodies enables me to see in the books of these superb writers and turn into practice the science they teach. </span>Probably they themselves do not know, how useful their knowledge is already when translated into the nonverbal language of the hands<br />
<br />
sensory stimuli are closer to our unconscious, subconscious, or autonomous functioning than to any of our conscious understanding. On the sensory level communication is more direct with the unconscious and is therefore more effective and less distorted than at the verbal level. <br />
<br />
Through touch, two persons, the toucher and the touched, can become a new ensemble; two bodies when connected by two arms and hands are a new entity. These hands sense at the same time as they direct.<br />
-- Moshe Feldenkrais, originator of the Feldenkrais methods from his book The Elusive Obvious.Chay-Yahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17132994789739793838noreply@blogger.com0