I'm Obsessed with Life because It is All I Know! -Karaoke

"...How important it is to create something with spiritual honesty. That means, you must be honest with yourself. You must be honest to nature. Otherwise what you create is everything non-true-love-zone" - Tadashi Endo

"I WANT TO DANCE REAL TRUE LOVE. TRUE EXISTENCE."
"YOU HAVE TO DANCE UNTIL YOU DIE."
-Kazuo Ōno

"I WANT TO DANCE REAL TRUE LOVE. TRUE EXISTENCE."
"YOU HAVE TO DANCE UNTIL YOU DIE."
-Kazuo Ōno

My Own Personal Samsara
[Rodent Country Excerpt]

Narrated by Riona Garcia-Taylor
Soundtracked by Decker D'alesio

karaokesounds@proton.me

In the past month my dog Bruno and my uncle Carlos died. Both of them were dear to me, and both deaths were unexpected.

Among the unsurprising feelings of loss, sadness, and disbelief there is one feeling that stands out for I cannot make sense of it… it seems to have a quality of distance and/or naivety?

Upon receiving the news of these losses, it appeared that the world had already long-time adjusted to that reality and that these beings were already really far away and that I was just walking in late to that “common-sense” (even if not that much time has passed since the actual death and me hearing about it)... What is this big space between me and this event?

I thought maybe it had to do with the transition of souls into another realm, and how this transition involves a vector of something unknown to us the living, so the closest way to make sense of it is by relating it to the feeling of physical distance or time passed.

This other-worldy movement is very confusing when I have a limited catalog of measurement & of understanding existence/non-existence…It is so confusing that (in fleeting moments) it distorts my memory of closeness to these beings during their lives and makes my grief experience feel isolated from everyone else (What do you all know that I don’t?) Maybe I will understand when I die.

I’ve been dealing with a knee and ankle injury lately, so I have been taking it easy with the body outside of class. A combination of two in-the-house- things-to do that have helped me maintain vitality in times I could not walk properly:

1))Somatic Exercises found in Somatics: Reawakening The Mind's Control Of Movement, Flexibility, And Health by Thomas Hanna


2))Slow freestyling to Sofie’s Birch Ambient Abracadabra show on NTS:




I have made a folder with the Somatic Exercises for you to check out (in Spanish >.<). I recommend checking out the whole book though! A great resource & probably in your local library:

I’ve been dealing with a knee and ankle injury lately, so I have been taking it easy with the body outside of class. A combination of two in-the-house- things-to do that have helped me maintain vitality in times I could not walk properly:

1))Somatic Exercises found in Somatics: Reawakening The Mind's Control Of Movement, Flexibility, And Health by Thomas Hanna


2))Slow freestyling to Sofie’s Birch Ambient Abracadabra show on NTS:




I have made a folder with the Somatic Exercises for you to check out (in Spanish >.<). I recommend checking out the whole book though! A great resource & probably in your local library:

Jared, Juan Camilo, Vivi, Antonia, Rio, Santi y Viasus al final de la performance con Club Movimiento. Activación para el proyecto de grado En El Tunal Hay un Delfín Rosado por La Viasus en el Hospital San Juan de Dios.

-d

The Tree of Contemplative Practices
... from my series: My Own Religious Objects....
(To remind myself, share with others and honor through adornment the mantras, knowledge and lessons that have guided me towards liberation)

Oil paint, sequins & puffs hand sewn onto recycled fabric...

Reference:

"Todo esto indica que un acceso /consciente/ radicalmente nuevo al propio entorno significa una nueva forma de experimentar el propio entorno, una clase de experiencia que no es la de una racionalidad constrictiva y consciente, sino una clase de experiencia que subpasa este viejo y limitado instrumento adaptativo...toda la experiencia somática indica que esta nueva forma de experimenta es la del amor expresivo, la experiencia de /rendirse/, de entregarse en amorosa confianza a algún aspecto del entorno que le rodea a uno. La experiencia sensual-acomodativa será lo que con más evidencia se manifieste cuando tenga lugar esta entrega y se manifestará en términos de relajación somática, una fluyente y difusa sensualidad que permite al ser somatizo ser sentido, percibido y moldeado por algún aspecto de su entorno. La experiencia sensual-acomodativa es la experiencia de adaptarse a alguna persona o alguna situación que se halla próxima a usted, y, para moldearse y adaptarse a otros seres y otras situaciones, el soma debe estar flojo, en feliz entrega y relajación hasta la última fibra muscular. Una tal experiencia se halla, evidentemente, desprovista de temor; no hay en ella vergüenza, y es sincera y totalmente expresiva de los impulsos motores que han sido suscitados por esa determinada presencia ambiental" - La Rebelión De los Cuerpos (Bodies in Revolt) by Thomas Hanna