Moving Memories - now

Memories move. Through time with us, move through us, creating our current perspective. They move in our minds as they play out the scenario that happened before. They move to connect us to the present moment, from that place of what we have experienced  before so that we can make something new familiar; safe. When we feel safe we allow ourselves to open up. Our memories have the power to move our bodies from a place of before, a safe place. But what if your memory begins to fade. And it's ability to process the familiar and unfamiliar starts to diminish. What happens if you begin to forget everything you have ever known and the body begins to lose it's ability of what it used to know how to do?


You have right now.

Being a Yoga instructor has taught me the power of the present moment. It's what we can create. All persons, even those with Alzheimer's have the ability to operate from the now. From now,  new moments can be created; And there's no attachment. There is no suffering. Because the moments come and go and you are always open and ready for a new experience.

The intention.

When our Moving Memories group meets on Friday nights and Sunday mornings at Clove Lakes Healthcare and Rehabilitation,  our intention is Joy, Expression and Pure Love; that is what is created. You can feel it in the room. . When the body begins to move everything else fades away. The aches, the pains, the confusion, the disillusion, the fear.  Even if it is for a moment or coming in and out. It fades and something wonderful happens, the power of movement. The space begins to have it's own prana (energy),   it becomes Joy, Love- the residents become Joy and Love; We are  Joy and Love.

As I work with persons diagnosed Alzheimer's and Dementia, I am inspired by them. Many people say to me how do you do it . Out of any work I have done in my life, working with senior citizens with Alzheimer's particularly utilizing dance and Yoga has created an overwhelming feeling of Joy which I have never experienced before.

Maybe they remember me, maybe they don't. Maybe they see me as familiar. It doesn't matter. All that matters is right now we are gonna have some FUN and create a whole lot of Love and Joy as we DANCE!

When you have Love and Joy, you have it all. 

Some Footage

Living Through Movement-2012

Living Through Movement-2012

Some work starts at 25sec mark

https://vimeo.com/81785862

Workshop

Learning to dance, Learning to be free of self.

"I need freedom now and I need to know how to live my life like it's suppose to be" - Mumford and Sons

Yes, how I feel exactly and why I dance, do yoga, meditate and etc... to free myself, create space and go someplace new, not in theory but in my body!...My physical existence.

I am learning more and more that my body is my purest mind, what I physically create through movement is a direct reflection of my inner self. Our bodies is an intelligence holding our emotions, sensations, pains and joys. When my body feels freedom, I am free. When I go someplace new, I have created something that has not yet existed, I am fulfilling my divine role as a creator in this universe.

Through dance I am learning how to better express feelings that are inside me, express these through my body...the purest medium of art & expression. And through this I become more expressive in life, more creative and free.

Freedom is not some external condition, it is an understanding, a feeling, a lightness...something that can be cultivated through practice. Free is what we already are and always have been, it's the awareness of your self as you are, as opposed to the thoughts you have about yourself.

Dancing brings about a non-thinking and suddenly...there I am, joyful and at ease with all things.

Peace to you all,

Mikey

a Free write

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