Step 16 Wow Dance

 

Step 16     Wow Dance

Mike [Dancing with Pat]  Sometimes when I dance I hear my mind say: “I love you, love, love love you.” 

Pat: Undulate your torso as we speak.

Mike: Wow. My eyes feel connected to my torso now.

Pat: Your “wow’s”could include me when you say them, but they don’t. Your head feels this ecstasy and leaves me out.

Mike: Let me try saying “Wow” to include you while I am undulating.

Pat: Good.

Mike: [This time my eyes do not stray from Pat. As my body makes small undulations I quietly say] Wow.

Pat: Yawning is more embodied than your wows. Try yawning.

Mike: I didn’t realize I could yawn at will. [I keep yawning.]

Pat: Let the yawn stretch through your body. Lay down on all four sides and stretch. Momentum has an ebb and flow. Let the end of one stretch move into a new momentum. Don’t cut off momentum.

Mike: When I cut off momentum, I need too much effort to dance.

Pat: Add the floor as a contributor to your movement.

Mike: So the floor is joining my dance. I can feel it giving umff and substance to my moves.

Pat: And a definition and a structure. You are not dancing simply in air. 

Mike: [I stand up and put my arms around the air and we dance.

Pat: What emotion rises in you?

Mike: Awe.

Pat: What emotions do you feel from other parts of your body.

Mike: [Bouncing on my feet.]  Happy.

Pat:  Allow a sound to come from your movement.

Mike: My belly says, “Omm.”

Pat: Is there an emotion you can discover in your belly’s Om.

Mike: Wow.

Pat: Remember to aim the sound of your wow to my body.

Mike: [I yawn with my whole body, arms opening a wow to Pat.]