Shared Center of Gravity
This week I've started to notice gravity pulling on me more than usual.... I think it started at the Tuesday night CI jam dancing with Fritz Blaw of Motorblade fame.
Somehow the shared center of gravity thing worked for me and I was finally able to have a sense of myself as the combined entity with four legs, four arms, two heads and a two part central body, and move as the entity. My movement gave me a sense of 'more'.... a reach would take the entity further, rolling to the side changed its/my/our shape... an endless new set of ways to go. Kinesthetic delight!
Ever since then, I can feel myself pulled towards other bodies I walk past in the hallways, especially through doorways. I feel like a tiny moon really close to the planet and the other people in my physical presence are other moons... An awareness brought to light...
I feel like I have a new Understanding with my body of some laws of physics that my mind doesn't quite get. Maybe this is the rest of my central nervous system waking up and taking part in processes I have historically delegated only to my big brain.
I remember in the moment on Tuesday, feeling like a turtle,like a tarantula, and various other multi-legged creatures... And wondering if there were 3 of us wihth 6 limbs instead of two of us with 4, if we couldn't go on up the walls like insects do and not be restricted to the floor...
One other beautiful aspect of this is how it is reflected or manifested in other areas of my life. Success in moving with other people in the contact improv jams translates directly into success in interacting with other people in my workplace. As if the ci jam is a template for the rest of the week.