By all reasonable criteria I should have stayed in bed this morning. When I went to bed Saturday night after a day and a half of Body School, I felt pretty banged up. My feet and calves were sore, my knee had been aching for 2 days, and to top it off I got this monster hamstring cramp that refused to be stretched out for the longest time. No, there was no need to push it. Just sleep in.
But I woke up around 7 and found myself thinking about how wonderful it would feel to be gliding around on the dance floor to the gentler strains of Early Wave music--so free and so meditative. Then I found this phrase in my head, almost like the news blips that float across the bottom of the TV screen on CNN. It was "the music of the body in motion." It kept repeating itself.
So I decided I'd rather dance than sleep.
I went down to the studio and began to dance. And to my suprise and delight, I had no pain. I had tape on my feet, my calves were fine, and my knee didn't hurt at all! It was a great start to what turned out to be a fabulous day of dancing and connecting with so many beautiful people. I'm so glad I got that wake up call.
