your daily rock : dance more!

April 29, 2013 in Daily Rock, General

Feel self conscious about dancing? Me, too. It didn’t used to be that way. Every Friday night in high school, I was on the dance floor with my friend Steve, doing elaborate disco moves (stop laughing).

I haven’t danced like that–with abandon and joy and passion–in years. Decades.

So I’m heeding this rock. Self conscious? Do it anyway. In private, if need be. Without mirrors, if you must. Just move your body. Put on music you love and move. Move. No other experience needed. No disco balls, no dance floor, just you in your bathroom or bedroom swaying (or moving more dramatically if you’re up to it).

Music is elemental: Earth, Water, Air, Fire–and Music.

It grounds us to the earth and lifts us up to the sky. It heats us and satisfies our thirst, music does.

The corollary to music is movement. It, too, grounds us, lifts us, heats us, and satisfies us.

Move today. With music. Call it dance, or not. Just move.

Love,

(These beautifully painted rocks are created by Kim Mailhot, aka The Rock Fairy.

About Patti Digh

Patti Digh is an author, speaker, and educator who builds learning communities and gets to the heart of difficult topics. Her work over the last three decades has focused on diversity, inclusion, social justice, and living and working mindfully. She has developed diversity strategies and educational programming for major nonprofit and corporate organizations and has been a featured speaker at many national and international conferences.