Step 69 I Or Thou

Step 69    I Or Thou

Pat:  [Speaking slowly] On the floor relax your legs . . .  knees . . .  calves . . .  arms . . .  armpits . . .  torso . . .  heart . . . neck . . . eyes  . . .  head. 

Mike: Ahhh.

Pat: Be aware of your sensations . . .  weight . . . breath . . . momentum.

Mike: [After a while.]  I feel hugged by the floor and air and the stuff in this room—including you.

Pat:  [Turns on Amazing Grace.] Now we’re ready to dance.

Mike: [Rolling away from Pat.]  I lose my sense that everything in this room is sacred as soon as I start to relate to you.

Pat:  Hold the tension between solo-ing and duet-ing with humor.

Mike: [I hide my head in my hands with eyes closed and then blindly reach out for Pat until I find him.]  Sometimes happy, sometimes blue, glad that I ran into you.

Pat:  When we’re truly aware our world and we are always bubbling into more than we are.  

Mike [Opening my eyes.] Peek-a-boo-I see-you.

Pat: When we are truly ourselves we will feel a spirit of “we” born of the synergy between us—even if we don’t feel it.

Mike: [Smiling] I feel a laugh moving from my smiling pelvic bowl through my smiling jaw bones.  Laugh with me.

Pat: [Pat takes my hand, leads me to standing, and then I lead him and he leads me until we don’t know who is leading.]