16

Jan

Finding my NEW voice!

I haven’t been posting very often lately. I could say I’ve been really busy, or haven’t known what to write, or, or, or… Really I could easily come up with a HUGE list of all the reasons I haven’t posted a new blog post.

These past few months (really starting 11.11.11)

Bing Crosby: The Voice of Christmas

I have been finding my NEW VOICE!

Lots of BodyTalk sessions, physical, mental and emotional changes!    Franklin Method (R) work to find my diaphragm and embody its movement and my lungs’ role in my breath.     Lots of learning and building.    Trust, trust, trust.

So many new, new, new things have been happening in my life.

Started a new job (which I LOVE more and more every day) that allowed me to quit the job I hated.    Stopped dancing for the ballet company that wasn’t helping my health and wellness.

Had my birthday! Yay!

Flew across the country to go home for Christmas (a place I hadn’t been back to in a year). And had a BEAUTIFUL Christmas with my family.

And now it’s the new year!  2012!  Happy new year! :)   I actually started this year out by physically losing my voice, my throat hurt so much.

But now things are getting clearer and clearer one day at a time.

I have so many goals, dreams and visions for the coming year and my year on this beautiful planet earth.

Earth

Recently started to freak out about the fact that I currently have 6 jobs (My video!) and (Laura’s response!) …. And enter the fact I lost my voice at the beginning of 2012!

Trinity Church (interior), New York City

Inside Trinity Church

Then TODAY I went to church at Trinity Wall Street (shout out! :D ).

While singing “I, the Lord of sea and sky” and “Mine eyes have seen the glory” I founded my strong and powerful voice in a way I have NEVER in my life experienced before. (I’ve always been extremely shy, super quiet and soft-spoken and never could decide about anything!)  I’ve also always been timid about my singing voice, yet felt a strong desire to SING!

This morning was a moment, an experience that I’ll always remember and will allow me a powerful memory to tap into to find my strong and powerful voice that knows.

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I feel so blessed to be living my life, surround by the people I am, in the place where I am!

Thank you all! All YOU people of the internet!

Sending out waves of light ~ PEACE, HOPE, JOY and LOVE!

Looking forward to the coming year of dancing, inspiring and healing!

Please leave a comment below with your thoughts, inspirations, dreams, goals….

I’d LOVE to hear it all, everything and anything. :)

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Church/Dance/Franklin Method/New York City

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18

Oct

Breathe

Ahhhh…

Theme of this Sunday for me. Came from a guy after church this morning. He asked me about my plans for the day and I said, “nothing!” which is a shocker for me.

For the past forever :) my Sundays have been busy, culminating last Sunday when I went to church, a discovery class, an audition then had the big performance of Pinkpig Ballet that night.

Taken me awhile to recover from that day, since not really “recovered” a week later….

But… back to the guy at church this morning. After relating my feeling of recovery to him, he suggested going to a park and just breathing. What an excellent idea! Had been battling with what to do today, always have so much work to do. But… it’s Sunday which I quite sincerely believe should be a day of rest.

but the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work… ~ Exodus 20:10

That is good enough for me! :)

 
Rest, sitting and just being is not something that comes easily for me. I’m a rather high-strung person, think it runs in my family…

 
Have learned to trust myself and actually listen to my body and what it needs since moving here, learning BodyTalk Access and the Franklin Method.

Focusing especially today on what I learned from the Franklin breathing class, in and out of nose – in and up my back then out and down my front.

 
I feel so much joy and contentment living in the city and just surrendering to that feeling.


So, here I am in Prospect Park, surrendering to the feelings, the emotions and breathing.

 

Final note..

Have no desire to be fake in this blog, have enough of that in my “pink life”  Reached a point that I am really tired of that, it’s exhausting!

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Ballet/Church/Franklin Method/New York City

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14

Oct

Dance… and other things.

Went to a dance performance last Friday. All the pieces seemed so morbid!

I remember when I saw Vienna Teng live in concert, one thing she said was how it is much easier to write sad songs than happy songs. The words and music for sad songs came easier to her.

I wonder if it is the same with choreographing dances….

This train of thought turns me to the Franklin Method (as everything in my life does anymore) :) Something I’ve learned, that is so incredibly true (think about it for yourself!) is: Negative imagery is way easier and much more prevalent in our culture. It also elicits a stronger somatic response than positive imagery usually! Positive, good, dynamic imagery you have to practice.

“Learning imaging is akin to learning a language?” ~ Eric Franklin (via @FranklinMethod)

But! …. Back to choreographing dances…

The dance I choreographed for my composition class in college was rather bleak.. But, the dances I choreographed for church services always had their abundantly joyful moments as the songs were praise songs or had moments of BREAKING through the DARKNESS.

Pieces choreographed on me have been a mixture. I have a rather spunky cute demeanor so perhaps that is why I am able to dance cute, quick, fun pieces…

Also, I wonder if ballet is an easier genre to make happy pieces for. I’ve always felt like ballet was a joyful dance form. Most of the classics are generally joyful and happy with some melodrama underneath and sad moments. Many of the plots are bleak, with happy moments…
Sleeping Beauty (my favorite classic): Aurora has a spell casted on her that when she pricks her finger she goes to sleep. BUT is awakened my her true love’s kiss! And there is a happy wedding ceremony!
The Nutcracker (the ballet I’ve done the most): Clara has her favorite toy nutcracker broke this Nutcracker comes to life and battles a huge rat king. But she kills the rat king with her shoe and her nutcracker turns into a prince and they go on a magical journey and see lots of beautiful dances.

Interesting, but really I guess full-length ballets need happy as well as sad moments or else the evening would be one-dimensional and the audience would get bored…

 

Do you have any thoughts on this?! I’d LOVE to hear them! Post your comment below! :D

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Ballet/Church/Dance/Franklin Method/New York City

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05

Oct

Church! …and new-ness

I often want all my friends and family to be able to experience all that I am extremely fortunate to experience living in Manhattan.

Trinity Church in Lower Manhattan

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This feeling is especially strong on Sundays. I LOVE my Sundays and treasure them deeply. I am lucky enough to be able to go to Trinity Wall Street every Sunday.

This means at least once a week I go to Lower Manhattan and past the site of the former Twin Towers. I’ve been able to see the growth and change in this area since January.

way to church

This photo is what I see when I get off my train to go to church. Straight ahead on the right – the re-building of one of the towers. The big building with pillars on the left is St. Peter’s Roman Catholic Church. The shiny bit of metal you can perhaps see on the left of the church is the new (new that is within the past 2 months) shiny, metallic cross to replace the one that had been here since I arrived in January. The old cross was made of rusty metal beams from the rumble of September 11th, 2001.

This “new-ness” seemed especially relevant this day. Since new, new, new is what I have felt with a special intensity since my last BodyTalk session with Laura Hames Franklin.

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Church/New York City

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