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Showing posts with label therapy. Show all posts

Sunday

Why I dance Argentine Tango and recommend it to my clients?



Do you like dancing? Are you doing it regularly?

It can be a wonderful complex exercise, if you like moving to music.

It involves physical movement, coordination, balance, and the emotional component of letting music be expressed and visualized as movements of your body.

It always is the best to do the kind of work-out that you really like and are waiting for the next opportunity to do.

That means there is a great chance you will do it regularly and for a long period of time. And that is what you want, right?

With time, dancing can become much more than just a physical workout and have deeply spiritual and quite therapeutic effects.

Especially, if it is Argentine Tango. Even if it is not the deepest and most traditional one it can still be very beneficial for you.

In the deepest version, it unravels and puts you together at each tanda (a sequence of 4 tangos danced with one partner).

And it happens in an extremely close embrace with a person of the opposite sex.

In the best version, it is an improvisation moment by moment inspired by the emotional music of Argentine Tango, translated by the leader (man) and consummated by the follower (woman).

During a good tanda with the right partner, it can be a whole life lived in 10 to 15 minutes.

One of the crucial aspects is that the most important part of this conversation without words happens in the upper part of the body, on the level of heart, where the connection of the two bodies is the closest and most stable.

Argentine Tango is even used in the psychiatric practice and, in some psychiatric wards, tango classes are organized regularly.

I started learning and practicing Argentine Tango 11 years ago and was fortunate to learn from Chan Park and Ruben Terbalka.

For seven and a half years, after a relationship, that didn't work out, I lived without this practice.

But, exactly one year ago, I started missing the deep experience again and was happy to find the traditional Argentine Tango still alive in my town.

Now, I am participating in a milonga every Thursday.

It:
1. provides me with a complex physical exercise to a very emotional music,
2. meets my needs for belonging, intimacy, and physical contact (with the opposite sex),
3. meets my spiritual need for deep moment by moment meditation witnessed and stimulated by another human being.

Once a month, together with friends, I go to another town to deepen the experience with complete strangers.

But they don't stay strangers for long as such a deep experience builds wonderful mature friendships.

Are you interested and want to know more about this practice?

You can leave a comment here, contact me on Facebook or over e-mail (ritajc[at]inbox[dot]lv) or schedule a FREE call and let's talk!

Saturday

Time of Big Changes

The last couple of weeks have been full of big changes for me inwardly and outwardly.

Weather is unusually warm, and on most days - sunny, but the trees know, it's autumn.


Love my hometown Liepaja! It (actually "She" in Latvian) is so beautiful at any time of the year! :)

Step by step, I'm returning to my usual cheerful and hopeful self, that sees beauty and goodness in everything.

And the sandplay therapy is helping me a lot.

And I have a day job. Since last Thursday, I work in a flower shop.

The salary is low and the working week is long, but there are lots of benefits as well. The biggest one: the shop is in a building right next to our home. :)

And things in the shop, that was ready to sell my creations, have started out really well, especially - regarding jewelry with semi precious stones.

The owner is interested in all kinds of cooperation with me.

So, I decided to spend a couple of hours every week in the shop to take in orders and jewelry for repair. And my desk at home looks mostly like this, when I get to it.


But I still started a new painting last night. :D


Thank goodness for the slow years and months before! My life seems gathering speed very quickly right now. And I love it!!! :D

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And you know I'm always happy to hear from you, right?
Please, feel free to leave a comment here or contact me at ritajc(at)inbox(dot)lv