A DR Thursday dance from studio melange
It seems my life these days is one big meditation on “not forcing” outcomes. I’ve been here before so I suspect this falls in the category of “life lessons.”
The Chinese have a term for this meditation: wu wei. Do nothing. In creative communities it’s known as flow. Athletes train, actors rehearse, but when opening night comes or race day dawns, the advice is always the same. Let go. Trust the work. In other words, cease pushing and get out of your own way.
Working from tension, pushing too hard for outcomes, causes injury. It jams flow.
The final pose at the end of a yoga practice is called savasana, or corpse pose. It is to surrender, not in the sense of giving up but more of giving over. It is a release of tension. My Earth Interrupted paintings have become for me a kind of savasana, a letting go. As Jim used to teach me, you’ll know you are in “that” place of flow when it feels like a dance of giving and receiving and you have no need to distinguish which side of the dance you are on. Both/and. Give/receive.
Kerri calls this morsel “Slow Motion Rain.” It comes from a moment of dance. Or, as we like to say in our house, “Woo Wee!”
SLOW MOTION RAIN gifts and cool products
earth interrupted IV ~ mixed media, 48 x 36IN
read Kerri’s blog Post on SLOW MOTION RAIN
slow motion rain designs and products ©️ 2018 david robinson & kerri sherwood
earth interrupted iv ©️ 2018 david robinson
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