Progress occurs in teacher’s form

. . . Speaking of which! And speaking of wow! Those tips you gave me have brought incredible results…I started out struggling with the idea of “gittin’ down and stayin’ down” — while doing the Taffies…I shared my process with my continuing students — and one of them, a belly dancer, said: Look, this is easy… you shift over to a bent leg and then bring your other bent leg over to meet it… oh! Ahhhhhhh….I got it! And my body loves it…a whole area of tension (that i didn’t even realize was there) removed from my practice… I’m suddenly allowing those Taffies to happen in a new way…

And this one shift opened up the concept of allowing to a new level all through my practice… Subtleties are revealing themselves to me… Circles within circles have come to life so that I feel that circle in Variaton of Around the Platter just rolling around inside the outer circle… just one of many such “aha’s”!

I think my alignment is better now, too, after your reminder to tuck my butt —( my rear, as the dalai lama would say )— something I’d let go of somehow… Tucking brings my weight more fully onto each foot — and what a difference that makes!

My students have all been benefitting, too, from these ideas and putting them to good use. . . .

Love,

– Beverly [McFarland]