Categories: Student Experiences & Reflections
Student has intense experience following practice
By: Robert Maddox
Student of Sharon Sirkis
After we had finished practice I was sitting on the hardwood floor. I could feel tendrils of vibration coursing against my skin. My eyes were closed and a gentle kaleidoscope played for my eyes. What shocked me was that when my eyes opened the kaleidoscope didn’t disappear. Instead it moved to rest like a gentle wave around the bodies of my classmates. Some shimmered lightly like the halo of the moon. Others seemed to stretch and return like stars in the darkest night. The strongest were like heat waves rising off the street. They seemed to bend the light that passed around them like a prism imbuing their human counterparts with an angelic aura of peace and beauty. “I wish” I thought to myself “everyone could see this way.”
Originally appeared in: March 2000
