I have a journal that I dedicate specifically to my healing journey or life journey.
As I was flipping through to land on a new page, I came across a little reminder that my soul wrote out at some point.
It made me feel expansive.
Incase it may be life giving to you:
“you are a map,
you will find your way,
you are the way,
so begin again, daily.
love through the unraveling,
but don’t forget to look up,
the Northern Star is rarely seen
underneath your feet.”
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#riselanternfestival2016
Dear Kathryn,
This is your persistence and I am the one who has reminded you to walk forward and through so much blood, chaotic loudness, and intensity.
I know you and your capacity.
I know what you can handle and when it is too much.
Thank you for allowing me to guide your steps and for following as your path continues to naturally uncover itself beneath your feet.
How much of your feet can you feel as you walk?
Presence is what I ask of you as you continue.
Continue through and forward.
You can, and will do this!
trust me,
Persistance
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B W photo challenges have been around for a while in order to bring awareness to many specific topics that need attention.
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I dedicate this challenge to and am reposting to say that I stand in solidarity with Turkish Womxn. Also, the countless number of BIPOC womxn that have been murdered in this country. This injustice and brutality has to stop.
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Please check out @auturkishculturalclub to learn more.
#challengeaccepted
#blackandwhite
#womensupportingwomen
#mensupportingwomen
#blackandwhitechallenge
#auturkishculturalclub
📸 @mrjacobpatrick
#getawayhouse
Dear Kathryn,
I am Divine Unconditional Love and this is what I am here to tell you…
Waiting is well worth it for you.
I don’t need acknowledgment, I never have. I don’t expect anything from you as I accept and find pleasure in wrapping you up as you are.
As you are Now.
Here.
Like. Right. Here.
Will you stop writing for a moment to feel me, to sense me, and be with me?
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There is no place that you cannot find me…
And if you believe differently, stay longer.
I love you,
Divine Unconditional Love
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Safety is one of my core values. It is something that I never quite embodied as a young dancer. I had a hard time feeling safe in my own body and didn’t know how to move through it, reflexively allowing the reactive state of force and fear to take the lead.
Over the years, I have dedicated much of my time to creating a greater sense of trust and security within myself. I have found that a felt sense of safety affects my ability to be present, and my ability to be present affects my sensitivity to listening, which listening is my pathway to uncovering honest and fulfilling movement.
I am continuously evolving and exploring tools to aid me along my journey.
I feel incredibly grateful to have @clistudios as a platform to create safe enough environments and intentional work to share with you all. Together we can practice pursuing presence within our bodies, acknowledging where there is room for growth while also appreciating how far each of us have come.
Click the link in my bio
—> “CLI” to visit my Choreographer page and learn more about my offerings through this platform.
Let’s explore together! ✨
Love for my “Bridgers” in completion of Semester 2:
“Birds Wings” by Rumi
“Your hand opens and closes,
opens and closes…
If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed.
Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as bird’s wings.”
My wish for you is this:
To listen to your body and it’s sensations.
To continue to honor it by having respect for both stimulation (the gas pedal) and relaxation (the brake).
My wings have yet to soar with complete freedom, truly understanding this balance. But I believe that in time, we will all meet each other in the sky.
Each flying in a way that only our individual paths could teach us.
Redefining Freedom as our healing processes chisel us towards allowing ALL to speak.
I believe in you my friends, and I cannot wait to explore the sky together. Who knows, maybe we already are.
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@theprotegemovement
📸 @mrjacobpatrick
Dear Kathryn,
I love you.
More than anything else I want to protect you. I put a lot of pressure on myself because I know I am the quality that keeps you alive.
And I am also sorry, I am sorry because I fear that I steal your “Living” many times. My job is complex and my heart aches at the knowing that I can cause confusion and disruption.
I’m learning to forgive myself and hope you can too. As you shed layers that aren’t serving you, I am doing the same. I hope that together we can find a helpful and pure balance in the home of your body.
Thank you for loving me and helping me to love myself.
yours,
Fear
*Thank you @lauren_m_ritchie for this exercise. I am grateful to be walking alongside you in this lifetime.
📸 @stillmotiondance
Anatomy of the Spirit by Caroline Myss is one of my favorite books. It has been transformative to learn more about the energy centers in my body and where emotions have gotten stuck.
I have always Felt DEEPLY. I can sit in a room with a complete stranger and without knowing it begin to experience their internal state as well as mine. It has been a journey for me to realize what is mine and what is not. It has also been a journey to learn to witness emotions rather than identify with them.
These emotions or waves of energy desire to move through me and shed light on areas that need to heal. I see emotions as explosions of misunderstanding that hope to be investigated and ultimately released. Underneath emotions are sensations that live in my body as clues guiding me towards contemplation.
I share this as a subtle reminder to listen to the body. These uncomfortable feelings and sensations, if examined with curiosity, can be a profound teacher.
The body is BRILLIANT, it knows what I need and will continue to shout out until I listen. It will shout out until I learn the lessons my soul so deeply craves to evolve through.
Where does your attention go when you listen to your body?
What might that area be trying to reveal to you?
I rarely find answers, but I do discover questions which lead to more questions. These questions guide me home while also keeping me soft enough to keep learning.
📸 @mrjacobpatrick
“I am following, and listening, and unsure as I don’t know if my eyes will ever open.
But I notice my eyes are open, and I’m still unsure, yet I am discovering.
As I notice this… I feel proud.
A very young pride, like I am showing something off from my lemonade stand, yet there is nothing to show. Because just like air, there is nothing to see.
I can’t show it to prove it, but I can feel it.
And that… that is enough proof for me.”
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📸 #dancemakers #inbloomtour
“Sometimes it’s not about the choreography, but the ability to feel free enough to play.”
– @kathrynrmccormick
#nationaldanceday #dancerreels #danceinspiration #dancetraining #movement #inspirationalreels #cliconservatory #CY2
“The way to have and be a sharp, powerful instrument is to be minutely sensitive, and use that sensitivity to see the epiphanies that have been sitting around you all along.” -Stephen Nachmanovitch
I am grateful for the supportive space that @clistudios offers our dance community! This space gives permission to arrive into our bodies, uncover what they hold, and experience them through movement. 🌱
Check out the link in my bio to become a member @clistudios and let’s explore together!
📸@geovannysantillan
#clistudios
#create
#learn
#inspire
“What touches you matters.”
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I grew up without any awareness around toxins. It just wasn’t a conversation. I didn’t realize that everything that surrounded me whether I consumed it, smelled it, or put it on my skin would contribute to my ability to heal and regulate my nervous system.
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“One of the reasons we are lonely is because we have forgotten that we have a friendship with the sky, we have a friendship with the ground, we have a friendship with our bodies, we have a friendship with the ways our bodies respond to the natural world.”
@davidjwhyte
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Australian throwback with @vicdancefestival 🫂
Get up and go, hurry, you are running out of time…
That is how most of my mornings have been spent the past decade. There was always a fear in me that felt like slowing down meant that I would become farther behind than I already believed I was. Slowing down was a threat because it would potentially reveal that my story of Not Being Enough was true.
There came a point a few years ago, that my insides were racing so fast I had no option but to listen. I knew if they continued to race without a break, they would eventually give out. I made a promise to myself-to stop sacrificing my health in order to please others or please my own ideas around what I thought others expected of me.
Stillness isn’t a stranger anymore and I am realizing how fear was never a very reliable guide. The more time I take before the race of the day begins, the deeper my relationship with time is becoming. Time is consistent whether there is a calm or a storm within. The minutes do not hurry just because my insides are pulsing quickly. The more I practice beginning my day with listening to how my historical sensations are separate from reality, the greater chance I have to walk through the day with courage to allow them to remain. To remain as a teacher and reminder of patience, that even if I feel a flipping and swirling within, there doesn’t have to be a label over it that affirms my fears.
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“An emotion can be best viewed as an energy that is misunderstood and comes to us for healing.” -Pamela Kribbe
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I’m so excited to be teaching at @clistudios 2020 Dance Experience!
You can take my class and many more by creating an account using the link below, you can also swipe up in my CLI Highlights:
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#clistudios
#globaldance
#dance
#keepdancing
#2020DanceExperience
Dedicated to The Bridge Semester 1:
“I allow a disconnected and uncertain share. I ground when I recognize that it is needed. I know my worth and value although I am constantly tempted to place a rock on top of it. The fear/pressure is heavy, but the solution is waiting.
The rock understands connection at every angle. To sit upon it would bring it equal joy as burying myself beneath it. The rock understands connection at every angle and knows that whether in comfort or discomfort, whether above or below, there is an intimacy and treasure within each moment I can acknowledge what my body is pressing against.
We are all pressing against something. We each get to interpret this pressing.
Is the floor holding us up or blocking us from going deeper? Is gravity weighing us down or is it making it possible to stand firmly?
I continue to discover way more questions than I have answers.
So I offer one to you:
What does it mean to be perfect? Does the perfect you’re searching for lead to more questions or does it put metal bars around curiosity?
No matter what you’re seeking, no matter how you interpret the rock that is pressing in to you, my wish for you is this:
-my wish is that you will stay long enough to remind yourself of a safety within
-that you will stay long enough to activate your creative mind and allow sensation to be felt/painted with a new perspective.
-that you will stay long enough to build a partnership with gestures, words, or connection that continuously bring you home.
Because when we are home, we belong.
To belong, is to be embodied, which is to always be home.
To be partnered with yourself in this way means that there will be no room you have to walk into alone.
This is my wish for you.” ♥️
@theprotegemovement
🎶: @amyraleon
“You Are The One”
@amyraleon ‘s debut album WITNESS is an odyssey of love & reckoning. A chance to stare at the wounds, to heal from them, to dance our way into a revolution of safety within ourselves. You can purchase the album exclusively on bandcamp today & follow AMYRA for more as the melody unravels.
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📸 @mrjacobpatrick
How do you invite your love for movement back in when you hit difficult moments in your training? @kathrynrmccormick reminded us this week how important reflection and stillness are in our process as artists.
#dancerreels #danceinspiration #dancetraining #movement #inspirationalreels #cliconservatory #cy2
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