Any practitioner of art and movement know this memorable moment when 'The Space' is being discovered for the first time. It changes the practice in an exceptional way.
The space is the accessible opportunity, the vastness of what hasn't been created. It is the raw potential of making something out of nothing. The problem, is that this potential is too often fulfilled with objects, moves and goals. Rigorous discipline of rights and wrongs. Not that there is a problem with discipline. It is a fundamental element of long term practice. But discipline for the sake of discipline too easily becomes a prison. A cave that hides the endlessness of potential.
I like to build capacity for skill and then to release it. To use the objects, principles and moves to become more articulated and have more options, but then, to try and forget them and re-focus on the raw potential. The greatness of art is that it allows to return again and again to the empty canvas, to the childlike curious eyes that encounter something for the first time.
The video was taken by @adrianaimh0f during a Zen Acrobatics workshop in Philadelphia organized by @alexbrazinski
Another Zen acrobatics workshop coming up next weekend in Sofia organized by @vasil.zelyamov message him or visit the link below for more information and registration!
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