dancing acknowledgments

enough insisting, enough talk…
let’s dance our reflections,
emotions,
acknowledgments.

let’s move in silence
as the sun sets
as the full moon rises
to the tune of
what we’re learning
where we’re heading
how we’re transforming.

let’s each move in our own time,
to the rhythm
of being alive;
the melody
of visiting with this place;
the optional tempo
of interacting with each other…

let’s just dance
without judging self or anyone.
without judging anyone.

let’s hold space
for tears, for laughter,
and for the sounds of kids & their relatives.
let’s honour space
for the peoples
& ancestors of this land,
and for any
of our own ancestors
we’d like to invite to dance beside us.
let’s nurture space
for all the ethnically relevant
things we each have to offer.

let’s start
with the weight of
our feet sinking, rooting in the earth.
let’s start,
inhaling and sighing.
let’s start
with sensations in the body
and where the knowledge in our bellys leads us.

…getting out of my head,
and into my limbs,
out of my stagnance,
and into my spunk,
out of my ego, into flowing…

dancing thru our pain & grief,
into reciprocity.
dancing thru our shame & guilt,
into vulnerability.

dancing through fears, into freedom.

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