How we learnt to stop dancing…

Why the music still keeps playing, yet we somehow stopped dancing… Rekindling that inner joy

‘Dance with me Mummy!’ The squeals of delight as we twirl, swirl & jump around the room.

She doesn’t care what it looks like, she doesn’t care what she looks like.

She feels joy. She radiates it.

She is purely, innocently & authentically simply enjoying a moment that comes so naturally to us, yes along the way is lost for so many. We become self-conscious, we learn to feel the need to blend in with our peers, that we might look silly if we get it wrong. We are conditioned to think we might be too…. clumsy, wobbly, big, stiff…. yet, yet… if we shut our eyes & simply… let go. She’s in there somewhere. This little girl in all of us.

As we danced around, I couldn’t help feel joy, that freeing feeling of simply moving, no rules, the rhythm of the music helping guide my body. Of course, dance can be hugely discipled, but the fundamental freedom of moving; we need to rekindle that.

Our very wonderful guide Meg recently came & took some shots for Flow Connected recently (you will love her barre classes if you haven’t already tried them!) & her energy shift when she was moving was contageous. It was clear to me that this is where Meg thrives. She is amazing at guiding barre, but I know I want to take a class which is the pure love & passion of a guide & Meg dancing may well have just come at the perfect time.

I really want to support a way of Meg sharing her passion with us, for us, as a community to be able to fall back in love with ourselves, to laugh, feel those endorphins & still get all the benefits of a class that we seek in terms of physical wellbeing… but more.

I know many may still feel that it’s not for them. I get it. It’s why classes like Pilates are so popular - we are conditioned to being told what to do, to being supported by a clear set of rules & a safety zone that we can be good at something. And that is amazing & I am so grateful we can offer that. But I also want to create a space where we can nudge your comfort zone, to ease out of us the inner-child like joy.

When do we dance?

At parties, weddings & social events. And so often the dancing comes alongside alcohol. That little nudge of confidence boost that enables us to get beyond our self-consciousness & embrace the joy the other side.

Imagine if we got to feel that without feeling the need for alcohol? That we got to embrace that feeling by showing up each week & trusting that we are in a safe space to embrace that joy?

So, let’s do it. Let’s dance.

Love Katie