One of the more enlivening ways for me to move with the trees is to simply run through the woods, meeting obstacles as challenges to dance with rather than fight (although fights do break out 😆). The Move With The Trees workshop I try to run monthly now, focuses on the various ways I love to have dialogue with trees - movement co-created between body and environment and it’s a conversation I love to share with others.
WAY OF THE OAK - SERiES of Classes
Bittersweet impermanence
The bitter-sweet celebration of impermanence, exemplified in the way trees (and bodies) change over time, yet remain beautiful. I’m certain about that statement when it comes to trees… I work on it as a self-love practice applying it to myself/my body.
This particular line has changed, as one of the branches has gone. In its place is a bigger and scarier challenge. More potential for failure and success. Bitter-sweet indeed. 🌳
This oak will certainly be present in the Way Of The Oak Class SERiES starting next week. Small group training to better understand ourselves through moving with the most welcoming Oak trees.
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How many ways can you get into the same tree?
Practicing a line
Arboreal locomotion: clinging and bridging
Clinging and bridging is one of the 5 forms of Arboreal Locomotion we categorise at @evolvemoveplay / @rafekelley. For me, it is a useful one to emphasis, not just for the perhaps obvious movement practice benefits but for the availability.
