Dancing With Pain
This is the ongoing journal of my personal awakening. Through up to date and un-edited realness, I hope to help you walk through your own awakening with more balance, love and ease.
Dancing in pain, dancing with pain, dancing through pain. What do I need to know?
I dance through pain because it is who I am. How do I keep going through the pain? How do I focus my attention on the things I can do instead of the things I can’t, or that are too painful to do. At dance class I see where are the moments I can shine. I see where are the moments I can put me into my dancing. That is how I get through each moment — putting me into each movement.
It can’t be about the steps — it’s about me and how I feel in the moment, and feeling into each movement as it comes. What of myself — what of my emotions, what of my physical feelings and sensations can I put into what I’m doing in the moment? What of my imagination can I put into the moment? What of my pain can I put into the moment? Where can I not hold back? In the interpretation? Because physically I’m holding back — to balance that I need to not hold back emotionally, creatively, imaginatively. I put the full essence of me into each moment. How can I share what is real in that moment and capture attention while working through constrictions?
Julia Coplan, an intuitive artist, uses dance, photography and writing to get unstuck from mental chatter and allow creativity to flow through.