The bit about finally coming to terms with dancing "on my own, with myself, in the dark" really hit. My wife and I have a similar ritual, though ours is more sedate: we play Wordle together every morning, which sounds nothing like dancing but is absolutely its own kind of daily embodiment practice. The same repetitive rhythm, the same small release when it clicks. Sounds obvious until you articulate it.
That applies to so many of the little things we do each and every day. I really like that line.
As for Wordle, that sounds like an incredible little ritual for yourself and your wife. I think it's a good example how there is no real one way for embodiment to work and how we need to be incorporating it into our lives in ways that work for us, as individuals.
This framing around embodiment as literaly just movement lands so well. I've been going to smaller electronica nights lately and there's someting about how repetitive loops let the body take over without the brain micromanaging every move. The way basslines anchor everything while synths float above seems to carve out this space where dancing becomes less perfomance and more just existing in rhythm.
Thank you! I've always been a lyrics first guy but that goes away with dance music. Especially my old big beat faves. Of course, I can get exactly one and three-quarters songs into any good DJ session before I have to sit down these days. Dance clubs and middle aged knees are not friends.
The bit about finally coming to terms with dancing "on my own, with myself, in the dark" really hit. My wife and I have a similar ritual, though ours is more sedate: we play Wordle together every morning, which sounds nothing like dancing but is absolutely its own kind of daily embodiment practice. The same repetitive rhythm, the same small release when it clicks. Sounds obvious until you articulate it.
"Sounds obvious until you articulate it."
That applies to so many of the little things we do each and every day. I really like that line.
As for Wordle, that sounds like an incredible little ritual for yourself and your wife. I think it's a good example how there is no real one way for embodiment to work and how we need to be incorporating it into our lives in ways that work for us, as individuals.
This framing around embodiment as literaly just movement lands so well. I've been going to smaller electronica nights lately and there's someting about how repetitive loops let the body take over without the brain micromanaging every move. The way basslines anchor everything while synths float above seems to carve out this space where dancing becomes less perfomance and more just existing in rhythm.
Thank you! I've always been a lyrics first guy but that goes away with dance music. Especially my old big beat faves. Of course, I can get exactly one and three-quarters songs into any good DJ session before I have to sit down these days. Dance clubs and middle aged knees are not friends.