Expression
...the space we take...
We’re stepping into the Season of Expression.
Expression begins before words.
Before there is story, before there is any meaning in context,
beginning with where you stand.
Your two feet on earth.
The cycle of air being breathed through your body.
That first shiver of impulse.
I want to preface, this season isn’t about being received.
Turning away from needing to be polished.
and letting what you’ve been receiving begin to take shape in your body.
Turning away from performance
and aiming towards something true.
This week, we begin simply by noticing how we show up.
When you walk into a room that is familiar, where are you centered in your body?
When you enter a space where maybe you feel out of place, where does your presence go?
Do you grow quiet to observe and take in the landscape so you can find “your part to play” while staying safe?
Do you expand so big to distract or deflect, to not give room for uncertainty to arrive?
How do you steady yourself somewhere in between?
I’d like to anchoring us in to this query of presence as a lived experience.
Patsy Rodenburg, in her book The Second Circle, describes three circles of presence.
The first turns inward… quiet, observant, protective.
The third reaches outward… expansive, bold, taking space.
The second rests in the middle… grounded, responsive, here.
What I love most is her insistence that all three belong.
There is no correct response.
All of these pathways live inside us.
Having a relationship with the “when I feel… I ___________”
allows me access to the honest choice…
So we begin this season by building that relationship with where we are as we begin to navigate what is being called to pulse outwards.
May I trust the way I arrive.
May I honor the shapes my presence takes.
May I let expression begin without explanation.
May I stand where I am with courage + patience
enough to
answer the call.
Until next….
in kindness,
Kirstin
This week’s inquiry:
Where do I feel most at home inside myself?
What environments invite me to soften, expand, or disappear?
The work is not to correct ourselves, but to know our defaults and impulses.
Awareness gives us choice.
Choice creates range, and that range makes way for freedom of expression.
