I tried this with a baby on my lap and another toddler at my feet, simple action of holding the baby. With discharge I wanted to shake / sort of flap brush off, but of course I didn't want to shake the baby. I tried to shake sort of around the edges of her. with recharge, I just sort of breathed up between us. Interestingly, I noticed that with each state, very quickly, both babies changed their expressions. With discharge each got a little agitated and with recharge each calmed very quickly. Mirror neurons at work! of course, now that I'm looking at my phone again they're both freaking out heh. so I am out! Thanks, Dare.
This is a very welcome decolonizing primer for me. Recognizing how rarely I (any of us) consciously differentiate between neutral discharge and recharge. I've imagined doing it and already felt a bodily shift. Will report back after actually doing it. 😂
OK. This was very revealing. The first neutral walk was not particularly embodied. With the first "discharge" I noticed a desire to wave limbs around and push, and it was performative and I felt a slight nausea.
The first recharge was the shift, slowed it all down, aware of breathing, natural. Don't have to "do anything". Open.
The second neutral was much more informative. What's going on right now? I'm the body and space around the body?
The second discharge was totally different from the first, simpler, easeful, more honest. The second recharge was almost euphoric.
Then a desire to mix up the order, start with the recharge. Cognitive asserts itself. Then it became more of a dance. But the performative urge was always at the ready to "take over", returning again and again to an "honest" neutral or recharge seemed key. Like meditation.
This reminds me of when "authentic movement practice" (tm) gets out of the cognitive traps "Am I doing autheic right? Do I "appear authentic" which is really fucking hard. This seems like a much more accessible portal. Thank you!
Yes the social performance of authenticity is rampant in “authentic movement tm” groups, because everyone has already limited their embodied options before they walk in the door based on their societal conditioning and preferences about what x body or y gender is supposed to behave like.
I tried this with a baby on my lap and another toddler at my feet, simple action of holding the baby. With discharge I wanted to shake / sort of flap brush off, but of course I didn't want to shake the baby. I tried to shake sort of around the edges of her. with recharge, I just sort of breathed up between us. Interestingly, I noticed that with each state, very quickly, both babies changed their expressions. With discharge each got a little agitated and with recharge each calmed very quickly. Mirror neurons at work! of course, now that I'm looking at my phone again they're both freaking out heh. so I am out! Thanks, Dare.
awesome report
This is a very welcome decolonizing primer for me. Recognizing how rarely I (any of us) consciously differentiate between neutral discharge and recharge. I've imagined doing it and already felt a bodily shift. Will report back after actually doing it. 😂
OK. This was very revealing. The first neutral walk was not particularly embodied. With the first "discharge" I noticed a desire to wave limbs around and push, and it was performative and I felt a slight nausea.
The first recharge was the shift, slowed it all down, aware of breathing, natural. Don't have to "do anything". Open.
The second neutral was much more informative. What's going on right now? I'm the body and space around the body?
The second discharge was totally different from the first, simpler, easeful, more honest. The second recharge was almost euphoric.
Then a desire to mix up the order, start with the recharge. Cognitive asserts itself. Then it became more of a dance. But the performative urge was always at the ready to "take over", returning again and again to an "honest" neutral or recharge seemed key. Like meditation.
This reminds me of when "authentic movement practice" (tm) gets out of the cognitive traps "Am I doing autheic right? Do I "appear authentic" which is really fucking hard. This seems like a much more accessible portal. Thank you!
"Am I "doing authentic right"?" might be about the whitest thing one could say.
Yes the social performance of authenticity is rampant in “authentic movement tm” groups, because everyone has already limited their embodied options before they walk in the door based on their societal conditioning and preferences about what x body or y gender is supposed to behave like.