Thank you so much to all the people who came last week to the class in Tottenham, it was a great time and it allowed a few more people to discover the wonder and delight of Biodanza.
STAND OUT #3 ( the last one of this serie )
extract of the book “Linchpin” of Seth Godin, you must know by now that I am huge fan ( if this word is right as I don’t like this one of course ) of Seth.
“There are countless people waiting to tell you how to fit in, waiting to correct you, advise you, show you what you are doing wrong.
And no one pushing you to stand out.
If you add up all the books, scolds, back-benchers, bosses, teachers, parents, cops, co-workers, employees, religious zealots, politicians and friends who can show how to fit in just so, it’s sort of overwhelming. It’s clear to me that we are really good at establishing and reinforcing the status quo.
Fit in too much, though, and nothing much happens. Where are the self-appointed agitators and firebrands, the people who will egg you on, and push you to stand for something?
They seem to be missing.”
I can tell you they exist, there are people who stand out all around you, but you don’t even see them, because you are blinded by all those who fit in and pull you down to fit in as well.
This Sunday, you will have the chance to stand out in the class. What? You are afraid of standing out? It means you need even more to come.
Just one question to end this letter:
when will you start if not now?,
who if not you?
I hope to see you on Sunday for a standing out class. with standing out dances.
The Linchpin meet up on Monday 14 June in the Royal Festival Hall was one of two hottest moment in my life. I can remember only another similar one 8 years back when I met Biodanza ( dance of Life ), a dance from Chile that has changed my life so dramatically and lighted a fire in me in such a way that I am now a Biodanza teacher.
Being a linchpin demands listening to yourself and following what you feel in your guts. In my personal experience and as a Biodanza teacher I meet all the time people who don’t feel anything, or just don’t listen to their feelings. Merely because for generations after generations, most of the people just followed instructions. It seemed so easier and comfortable.
The situation today is that most of the people got the possibilities and the potentialities to make their dream come true. But a long time ago, they forgot how to dream.
The question is then: What can help them to dream again? What can help them to reconnect with their feelings, with the fire inside, with the passion in their guts.
So my participation in this evolution is helping people to reconnect to their own feelings, so they are able to listen to themselves and therefore they also can do what is good for them.
“People will forget what you said and they’ll forget what you did, but they’ll never forget what you made them feel and what you inspired them to do.” — maya Angelou, improved by Anne Mc Crossan, here is my tribute to the Linchpin meet up organizer )
Therefore to reconnect to your feelings you have to contact the energy in your guts, and actually that’s the best way to defeat the lizard Seth Godin wrote about in “Linchpin”
To connect to your feelings, you have to move. Literally. Dancing is nothing else than that: a meaningful movement to music.
About music, isn’t it also the best way to reconnect to feelings and life.
That’s where Biodanza comes in: this dance system created in the ‘60s is much needed today to help people reconnect with oneself, with others and with the group and the world.
One of the feedbacks that I can hear most often from the people doing Biodanza is :
Here in the class, in this group, I can be myself.
Imagine the world if everyone was exactly himself/herself and nothing more, nothing less than him/her self. To take his/her place, and fully play the game.
It’s here and now the greatest opportunity of your life to be truly, totally and simply yourself
Let’s start the dance. Let’s light the fire.
There are many things to do to stand out from the crowd.
There surely is only one way to really and truly stand out from the crowd: being yourself.
Writing it, another quote comes immediately to my mind:
“be yourself, anyone else is already taken”.
That’s so funny and profound.
Yet so many times we try to be like someone else for many diverse reasons. Because we think it will be easier to do like someone else to succeed or get something like he/she did.
But so often it works differently from one person to the next. Merely because we are different and act differently.
There really is no recipe for success or happiness, if we consider these are the ultimate achievements in life.
Don’t look outside to stand out from the crowd, just be genuinely yourself and nobody won’t be able to be better than you as nobody can be yourself.
One question is: what am I good at? and do it again and again, and improve it again and again.
It won’t be long before you are noticed and you stand out from the crowd.
Again, one of the best way to be yourself is reconnecting to your feelings.
To do that, moving is one of the best way I personally experienced.
That’s why I invite you this Sunday to share the dances and the music I will be delighted to offer you.
Hey I just finished the preparation of the class, and I can tell you it will be GREAT. If I was you, I wouldn’t miss it.
Today I will talk about business and the way all our culture is changing completely.
You may have noticed that advertising doesn’t work anymore like it did. People don’t want to be bombarded all the time by advertisement they don’t trust anymore.
Nowadays, when we have something to buy, we ask our friends, family, colleagues, we ask opinions and recommendations from people we trust.
We can also connect with people on the internet and it’s more likely than after a while, we will trust these people because our experience showed that we can trust them and that their opinions are valuable.
They are not selling us anything, they are just sharing their own experiences. They are just being themselves, with their joys, their sadness, their strengths and their weaknesses.
And that is more and more the way people intetact with each other, and more and more the way we do anything and everything.
After a long time of more and more disconnections, we are going the other way with more and more re-connections. And in 5 or 10 years, we won’t understand how it was possible to do any other way.
All that is really good news: it means we don’t need anymore to wear a mask to go to work or to change our behaviour to please the people around us.
You can genuinely be yourself.
Being yourself is the only way to find real love, being happy and make others happy around you. Being yourself is the only way to achieve any real success in Life.
And in this evolution, Biodanza is a wonderful tool to help people to reconnect with themselves, with each other and with the group.
