I Dance To Celebrate My Enoughness

In response to Dancing Elephants prompt 15 of 52

I love that my deepest personal growth moments are grounded through Dance.

My Word for 2021 was Dance, which allowed me to explore and experiment with what I truly enjoy about dancing. I bought my first pair of silk fan veils and stumbled into the magical world of Flow. It was a new way of dancing, combining fan flow techniques and the freedom of improvising my dance. I embraced flowing more often in my favorite park.

In 2022, my Word was Groove. I took Kellita Maloof’s potent and intimate 12-week Conscious Burlesque group program with four other women and realized how I didn’t feel safe to slow down and pause whenever I dance. It was so powerful to learn to pause as a potent movement quality. Kellita referred to this as the healing medicine of Alive Stillness. I tried on different grooves through Hip Hop, Jazz-Funk, and Contemporary dance classes and fell in love with Contemporary.

This year, I’ve set my intention as Gentle Flow. And I’ve been having so many magical synchronicities since setting it last Tuesday.

I took an in-person Contemporary Dance class at my University Residential Hall’s dance camp last Tuesday evening. The class was amazing. The instructor taught us a gorgeous routine choreographed to “Turning Pages” by the artist Sleeping At Last.

Last Friday, I experienced a magical online group journaling workshop facilitated by Pam Sourelis. This was a regular monthly online journaling group I had joined for the past year. It’s so therapeutic to journal together in silence, share our discoveries, and learn fascinating insights from witnessing others share theirs.

Pam gave us a few prompts to journal, one of which was “Enough”. This prompt led me to reflect on how much I struggle with feeling enough as a dancer, mother, writer, and coach. It reminded me to keep reminding myself that I truly am enough.

I must have needed more reminders!

On that same Friday night, our entire family sat in our University’s Residential Community Hall to watch the performance showcase from the students’ dance camp. My husband and I got invited out of the blue to perform on stage! At first, I felt so stressed about dancing freestyle on stage. But once I got into the flow and received cheers from our appreciative audience, I felt enough to share my passion for dance.

Riding on a super dancer’s high from all these amazing dance experiences, I found the artist Sleeping At Last on Spotify and kept playing his songs throughout the weekend. One cheery song popped up, and all I heard was,

“You’re enough. You’re enough. You’re enough. You are enough. Those little words, somehow they’re changing us.” ~ part of the lyrics for ‘You Are Enough’.

Wow. What a beautiful, persistent reminder. I saw myself dancing freely in the park with my silk veil poi to this song. It felt so tangible.

Yesterday morning, after giving a Human Design chart reading to a new client and sharing with her about her consistent love for nature, I quickly brought my silk poi veil and tripod to this park right across the road. I repeated this song and danced with an upbeat groove, recording it on video as a potent audio-visual reminder.

Here’s the video I took, pieced together from several takes:

I am Enough. You are Enough. May we find the strength and lightness to celebrate life from wherever we are.

Thank you, Dr. Preeti Singh, for your beautiful prompt!