Why is the flow of energy so important to Shapeshifting?
Unlike traditional dance which is based on movement that is created through the process called choreography where the conscious mind strings together shapes that are supposed to express some idea or made up story about your body, ShapeShifting is totally based on the flow of energy through your body. It is the energy flowing through your body at myriad levels of organization which joins with energy webs that surround you that give rise to your body’s story. The movement that flows out of your body is the story that your body tells as it remembers all that it has experienced in your life. It knows who you are and it allows its energy and the energy surrounding it to tell your story.
Specifically, energy flowing through and around your body lays out a line or flow of energy that your body then follows. As your body follows that flow line, it fills it in with its physical movement story. In the process your body's physical movement articulates the energy flow that it is following. The energy flow, not only gives your body a place to tell its story but gives itself the gift of physical expression . Energy gets shape and shapes get flow- thus ShapeShifting.
This is not a conscious mind process which has little or no connection to the story that your body knows. This is not about stringing shapes together in some feeble attempt to tell a contrived story made up in your conscious mind.
You need to leave your conscious mind behind and allow the flow of energy in you and around you to bring you into your preconscious mind which energy itself has organized into a level of intelligence. Your preconscious mind is the place where your body lives and breathes. When you are in that preconscious state, your body will tell its story through spontaneous movement meditations. The combined flow of energy within you and around you bring to life the movement that expresses who you are. This story includes the story of energy from the beginning of time. Your body is the vehicle that gives expression to this eternal energy. It is both your body’s story and the story of all living organisms that have gone before you. This eternal energy flow longs for you body to incarnate it’s story along with yours.
On the subatomic level, vibrating strings of energy attract and push against each other. Our bodies contain these same energy types and resonate with those same frequencies. Your body is a tuning fork that picks up frequencies and amplifies them and then sends them out back into the myriad of types and range of energy frequencies in the form of movement. Your body’s movement can focus, clarify, and synchronize the energy types and frequencies that it takes in and sends them out with more organized power. This movement with its’ invisible power is read by other bodies which also pick up and reshape these energy types and frequencies.
Energy enables, communicates, and connects your body’s movement story with other human bodies and their stories. This is ShapeShifting.