How can we learn to dance with complexity, contradiction, grief, beauty, uncertainty, horror and surprise without abandoning the dance-floor ?

Dancing feels like an interesting invitational metaphor to me for these times

It invites us into the body and out of our stuck heads.

It invites us into presence and relationship with life in the moment,

To be present with our bodies, with each other, with other life forms

It’s movement, spontaneity, flow, expression, vibe, response,

Response-ability.

Dancing is aliveness.

And we need alive-ness.

To break the numbness.

So on that, I offer a new Earth Sessions mix: Autumnism

For this season of letting go.

An hour of tunes, that have been moving me of late and that capture for me the feels of this season - the endings, the abundance, the darkness, the joy, the mystery.

I hope they move you in some way.

Tracklisting here

And if you struggle with dancing, it could well be our deep patriarchal programming - you know the voice - ‘I can’t dance’

I offer some words I heard a wise man once say about letting yourself go on the dancefloor…

‘No one’s looking at you and no one gives a f**k’

So stay awake to what is happening, what is ending, what needs to end and tend to what needs to begin.

Look around you, find the thing that speaks to you, find the others and get stuck in.

Love and care at the centre.

And try to stay curious with the trouble, the discomfort.

Do not abandon the dance-floorREPEAT: Do not leave the dance-floor of life.

As Nena and WestBam said…

‘We are the future, that’s the past

We are the moment built to last

We are the up, that’s the down

We wear the newschool engine crown’

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