Why Now?
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.
What is it about my injury that is making now the right time? Because I’ve had the idea of creating dance videos for 2 years, back when I wasn’t in a place of physical pain and restricted movement. Why now? Why now when I can’t move how I used to?
Because this is exactly how I need to heal in this moment. This is the process I need to go through to heal from my self-criticism. Why is it any less beautiful to be in this pain? Why does it feel so wrong? And yet dancing always feels right to me. Even when I’ve been away from dance for a long time. I always come back…and it’s always there waiting for me with open arms. Dance lets me be just as I am and has no criticism for me.
Dance allows all. That is what I am here to learn now in this moment and heal for myself. That I no longer wish to be anything but what I am in this moment — that I don’t need to pull away or make it wrong. Because how can it be wrong if it’s alive in this moment? There must be a purpose for it. So this physical pain isn’t wrong. It’s here to show me the way forward.
Julia Coplan, an intuitive artist, uses dance, photography and writing to get unstuck from mental chatter and allow creativity to flow through.
