Back From my Pole Dancing Vacation, and Thoughts About Our True Animalistic Nature
Hi guys,
I’m back from my vacation. I just spent 5 days in California on a pole dancing retreat.
Oh my gosh, it was the most amazing experience.
I just want to let out a big sigh of happiness and just did.
I felt so free while I was there. When you are dancing and you are really in the zone, you feel so incredibly free.
The feeling I felt reminded me of how once I almost took a life threatening fall down a steep slippery stairwell. I slipped and fell forward head first. In that moment, things started moving in slow motion. I felt my instincts take over. I became powerful all of sudden. My body knew what to do. In an amazing physical feat of strength and skill, I righted myself in mid air and grabbed the railing and pushed off.
I remember thinking what a great feeling that was when my body took over. Instead of the bumbling, uncertain, unskilled person I usually feel like, I became strong, calm, sharp, and powerful. It comforted me to realize that if I was ever in a life threatening situation, that side of me would probably take over again.
That’s how I feel when I am dancing. The body takes over and you feel your true, beautiful, animal nature.
I feel so strong, so powerful, and free. The self consciousness goes away. The alpha female in me takes over.
(This is the amazing TED talk of the head of the pole dancing studio I go to gave. I highly recommend it! It starts off with her pole dancing at the beginning. So beautiful)
It really reminded me of a nature documentary, seeing these women, and feeling myself, become like lionesses, bristling with energy and power and beauty.
Amazing.
On the way to the conference rooms where the retreat was held, I passed a mansion-like bird house for birds next to the window.
Damn. I felt so sorry for those birds. I seriously thought about just opening their cage and letting them fly out the door, but then I thought what if their wings are clipped and they don’t know how to survive in the wild.
There we were feeling so free and reclaiming our true animal nature, and there the birds were living in a really cool mansion, barely able to fly, looking out the window at nature.
I guess it just made me think of how humans are animals. We bristle with calm dominant energy too. We can speak without words too. We can feel wild and free like a cheetah running down the savannah too.
Instead our wings are clipped and we live in little mansions too, like the birds.
It’s just interesting, I guess.
We should respect our animal nature more, and everyone should get in touch with theirs.
I’m telling you, it is the most incredible feeling in the world.
And we are so dumb to think that birds prefer to be in a mansion like we do.
We all should be free.
Love how you write. How many times I have looked at birds in cages and berated myself for leaving them behind, trapped. (I often question if releasing an animal that is caged but unable to live free would be better off having 5 minutes of freedom…?) Your comparisons to human nature are so true and I am happy to have received the invite to your page. I will be a faithful reader!
thank you so much Cathy. <3 <3