{"description":"I\u2019ve been feeling quite groundless with my work, my purpose, the \u201cnext step,\u201d the future of humanity. As Tibetan Buddhist Pema Chodron reminds us, most of the \u201cground\u201d we grasp for is mental: stories shaped by fear and scarcity - and built to protect us from change, uncertainty, and vulnerability. Yet the heart of reality itself is uncertain, impermanent, paradoxical, fluid. \n\nOur political and cultural divisions safeguard our need for certainty, hijacking our emotions and preventing us from understanding nuance, complexity, and the common ground running deeper than our divisions.\n\n\u201cFor us to transform as a society \u2026 we have to allow for the incompleteness of any of our truths and a real forgiveness for the complexity of human beings.\u201d - Rev. Angel Kyodo Williams\n\nWhen I dance, my body reminds me of the only real ground there is: the physical, somatic world. Mama Earth hasn\u2019t gone anywhere. \n\nDance is this rhythmic, playful conversation between my feet and her ground. \n\nParadoxically, I only find flow when I relax my mind. The less I push, force, or try to control, the more my body can float, glide, and intuitively know the next step. \n\nOur breath, our movement, our connection to Earth - they guide us into relaxation, the foundation of clear thinking. From that place, we become the kind of people whose embodied presence helps others think in new ways, imagine new possibilities, and regulate the hijacked nervous system of the collective.","height":1280,"html":"
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