Girl’s Night Out is a good routine for my Hot Yoga Nia class because they know it so well. They already know the music and the moves as well as the original focus of the routine. This is a good start for dealing with communication. I invited them to call on their receiving powers more than usual. I warned against already knowing what the routine had to say. Hearing before the communication has been transmitted is a good way to stop the growth of a relationship. I asked students to put on dog ears to hear more the sounds, words, instruments, phrases, etc… with no per-conceived notions. Then to layer on their transmission with care and craft. I invited them to use symbology and watch what their dance was saying. Transmit what they really wanted to say. I suggested that if they already knew what they wanted to say (dance) their message wouldn’t be 100% in the present. For me, it would be like preparing every single pearl that I wanted to say before class and then being hell-bent to say them all irrespective of whether the right moment came up to deliver it. Being prepared with some ideas and a theme and an outline is one thing, but listening in the moment for the teachable situation is completely different. Knowing the choreography is another situation that might be an, “I already heard that” situation. I think this power of two – communication thing is what makes tight but loose possible. In fact I think it makes loose necessary and makes tight reliable. Tight gives me the confidence to listen in the moment and then transmit the most current and applicable pearls.
Pearls: Check into the music, listen, wait, select one instrument and converse with that only, receive, tell the story, be straight forward with your communication, dance around the subject, allow your emotions to come through, pick a symbol to convey with your movement, pick a partner and converse through your dance, communicate the short version – to the point – the twitter message of your dance, write the whole letter now, speak in long illustrative sentences, ooze your self into the dance, respond to what you hear NOW, not what you already know is going to be said, stick with your way, increase, tweak and be more your way…