De-Centering

How can one be authentic in one’s movement explorations, responding to internal impulses, staying present to one’s stories whilst retaining a state of objectivity? De-centering from our own emotions with sensitivity and awareness can enable the mover to become more fully present to one’s bodily sensations, falling into the space of the unknown. In such a space, magic happens as the body finds new pathways from the emotional subtext of the mover, particularly when experiencing a cathartic release. De-centering as a movement resource also helps us to be in a real experience when multi-narratives and truths exist. Determining how to live and move with ourselves in these multi-narratives becomes a key question in movement therapy. Can I express my happiness with the knowledge that it has difficulty emerging through the body? How can I track this process of getting it out? For tracking becomes a important tool here in shaping the development of the movement and releasing the emotion that lay beneath it.
De-centering also enables the mover to witness her / his own material with fresh eyes, gathering further resources to transcend beyond the movement pattern and open the body vocabulary, enabling one to become more embodied. My own de-centering experience materialized today as I experienced a thread of multi narratives whilst working with a movement exploration between the arms and pelvis. Working with the floor, my arms making large and forceful spiraling movements  allowed me to travel through space in a way that I didn’t believe possible for my body. What started as a fervent action simmered gently into slow, sustained movements, inviting me into a space of quietness. As the fight between the left and right and the pelvis and arms dissipated, I felt a sense of acceptance and surrender to my body and my multi narratives - my belief patterns circling through and out of me and my energy carrying me forwards…