Chi for Two® Practices Celebrate Healthy Oppositional Dances
Chi for Two® developers, have identified some potentially problematic paradigms for healthy oppositional dances, like those times when we feel an urge to push into someone else. First, we have to acknowledge as a community that the sub-currents in contemporary health and spiritual culture are hand-me-downs from decades past.
Regarding this need for healthy oppositional dances in individuals, the cultural revolution of love, exemplified by the Beatles lyrics: all you need is love, presents a problem. Any healer who works with clients with trauma knows that to tell them just love everyone is not a valid path in itself to healing their trauma patterning.
Let’s dig deeper into the Chi for Two® practices of Push and Reach/Grab/Pull
It was lovely presenting Chi for Two® - The Energetic Dance of Healthy Relationship with my son and Tai Chi teacher Stephen Wagner at the Dance Therapy Advocates Summit this weekend. We spoke about the value of understanding the innate interactions between wild mammal mothers and their babies.
Afterwards, as I stood in line at the grocery (6 feet from the person in front and behind, in my mask, which can feel like being muzzled), I noticed the cover of the latest issue of O: The Oprah Magazine. I was drawn to the words Don't Blame Mom! The therapy that focuses on your future—regardless of your past. I thought about the way that Chi for Two® invites us to look far into the past, to examine the historical struggles within human culture to attempt to civilize our animal urges—trying to learn to live and work together.
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