Lab Notes: Heart #4

Led by Kaitlin

Also in attendance: Scott, Christian, Denise

Thinking about the heart and it's functions.

--It pumps blood. Get it pumping, move blood through the body. Warm the core, wake the edges. 

Dance Party:
One song solo warm up(Can't Hold Us by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis)
Three songs collective dancing--maybe some contact but primary directive dance party. Finding some idea of ensemble. (Sweet Dreams by Eurythmics, Stay by The Zodiacs, Higher & Higher by Jackie Wilson)

--Heart brings blood to the lungs to be oxygenated. It is vital, it is vitality. Life-blood. It is the pleasure of being alive.

15 minute duet of vitality:
Dance of vitality. Indulge in your aliveness, witness and celebrate your partner's vitality too.
We did two 15 min duets, swapping partners.

Reflections:
"Lungs are the wings of the heart"
"Look at all the things I can do with my human body"

Denise: Melded the quality of appreciating little moments, but also energy. These are not always dances that go together. ie detailed dances tend to be non-energetic, energetic dances not as focused on listening/nuance.

Christian: A sense of appreciating each other's choices and noticing being appreciated. The time to stay with the person and develop that noticing.

Kaitlin: Nice mindset to return to: positive and open. Places an intention around it that gives it a shine.

Denise: Gave a sort of permission to do anything because we're just honoring each other's vitality.

Christian: the way an electromagnet responds to polarity, pushing off, flipping back and forth, feeding off reciprocating energy

--The heart is the center of the circulatory system. A network. We have heart strings attached to people across our community. 

Dance as prayer:
12 minute duets. Each person takes a turn tracing the names of those who they would pray for, those who are pulling on our heart strings, placing those names in the vessel of our partner. (Found a lovely melting-in or sand sensation if the back surface is smoothed with the palms between names.) Then together a dance of prayer, honoring the names placed inside both of you.

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