Reflections from Skinner Releasing Fall Workshop

Our series of Skinner Releasing classes here in Inwood has come to a close. It was a wonderful experience for me to be in the studio with so many uptown neighbors. Doing the Skinner work is always rejuvenating for me so a big THANK YOU! to those who were able to join in with us to experience our first uptown workshop.

Here are some of the wonderful, reflections made by participants:

Ho to the Heee...

 Aho. To the celebration that is me...

3, 4, 5, women dancing

Not too far from the trees

but safe, sequestered in our room

For gently bending knees

And traveling with permission

internally

In and through and from and

to and around

This ship we call our body

To deep beneath the sea

To high up in the air

All guided by breath

in this Sunday morning celebration

of weeeee__________

         - Tara Mooney

Capricorn carpaccio

Cabbage camels corn

Moving like particulates

On the day they were born

Effortless imaginings

Could your toenails bite?

Or perhaps some tentacles

Could on your nose alight

                                                              Prefer to march along the sea?

                                                              Or into some little shop?

                                                              Once you prance at a panda's pace

                                                              You'll never want to stop.

                                                                                          - Laurie Newell

"My mind would come back to making sure my jaw was not clenched as it was in the first few classes – but today when I checked, my jaw was already relaxed.....

Then I noticed Tera did a dance as she bent toward the paper and pens, chose a pen, detached a sheet of paper. The paper dance....."

- Gretchen Mergenthaler

There was a wonderful article in The New York Times today about this type of effortlessness...

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/16/science/a-meditation-on-the-art-of-not-trying.html?_r=0