A Seeker of the Flow

This week, I was reminded of how much my life is about seeking the flow.  In the span of a few days, I reunited with teachers from the two parts of my life that are all about the flow – yoga and tango.  My root yoga teacher was in town as part of her east coast tour and on 11.11.11, I joined her and others for a mantra and mediation conference call to usher in this time for new beginnings, to move forward from a place of one-love.

After the call, I felt thankful for all that yoga brings to enrich my life, but I’ll admit, I wasn’t feeling totally connected.  I didn’t feel an ever pervading one-ness.  But the next night, I went to see my tango teachers who are visiting from Buenos Aires, and after seeing them, I was lovingly swept up into the collective flow.  It just goes to show – there are many roads that lead us to the light.

So, to explain – for me, and many others, tango isn’t just something fun to do on a Saturday night, it’s something that becomes a part of who you are.  You invest HOURS of blood, sweat, and tears (literally), and a whole lotta $$$ into the endeavor (classes, private lessons, trips to Buenos Aires, and most importantly – numerous pairs of beautifully handcrafted stilettos).   We do all this for the possibility of a few minutes of transcendence.  You and your partner create a one-of-a-kind improvised dance, all in the flow, communicating with each other solely through intention and movement, all the while using the movement and music to express yourself and your emotions.

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Now, this doesn’t happen with everyone you dance with, or even every time you dance with a certain person.  It happens when both people are in the flow, when they resonate with the music, when they are relaxed, when they can feel and feed off each other’s energy.  That’s when creativity takes over, and that’s when its magic.

So finally, after watching my teachers dance, and dancing a bit myself, I remembered what it’s like to be connected to that collective consciousness and how much I love being a seeker of the flow.   Watching my teachers dance, I could see the energy between them, around them, and in their incredibly smooth movements.  Sharing that experience with them and the rest of the audience reminded me that all over the world, on any night, you can find people connecting with each other and beyond through these movements.  I can go anywhere in the world, dance with a total stranger and feel this connection.  How cool is that?!

There are so many ways to drop into the flow, and I feel so lucky to be a student of both yoga and tango – to have these amazing vehicles to experience the flow in such a deep way; to experience the one-love of a collective consciousness.

The lamps are different,
But the Light is the same.
One matter, one energy, one Light, one Light-mind,
Endlessly emanating all things.

~ One One One, Rumi