A missing link in feeling alive
Touching Your Animal Side
We often use the word animal as if it means something negative. To be animal is to be wild. Uncivilised. Impulsive. Savage. But perhaps that has a surprisingly good side.
Touching Your Animal Side
We often use the word animal as if it means something negative.
To be animal is to be wild.
Uncivilised.
Impulsive.
Savage.
But perhaps that has a surprisingly good side.
An animal does not spend time pretending to be something it isn't. It just responds to what is happening. It notices. It listens. It reacts.
An animal is fully present. Something we all dream of.
It is at home in its body, doesn't judge itself nor others.
Coming back to the body
We spend much of our lives living in the future or past.
Regretting about what happened yesterday.
Worrying what might happen tomorrow.
Wondering how we appear to others.
Meanwhile, the body is here. Being animal.
Breathing.
Shifting weight.
Feeling.
Tensing.
Relaxing.
Listening.
A deeper intelligence
Perhaps our animal side reminds us of a deeper kind of intelligence: the intelligence of intuition and instinct.
This inner knowing, knows everything. Movement can bring us back into this kind of intelligence.
When we play, improvise, wrestle, dance or move with another person, there is nothing we can plan.
We have to listen.
To the pressure.
To the distance.
To the rhythm.
To the other body.
To ourselves.
Moving like you belong here
Perhaps being in touch with our animal side is not a step back.
It is a step to becoming more present.
More responsive.
More honest.
Less separated from the body.
I want to be as free as an animal can be, and our practice opens the door.