by Amara Pagano | Oct 6, 2017 | Azul, Leap Program, Reflections
I woke up this morning thinking about how the baby at birth is a wide open system with free flowing breath and an undefended responsiveness to the world. During birth, infancy and childhood we experience some aspects of life that are unsafe, wrong and painful. In the...
by Amara Pagano | Mar 17, 2017 | Azul, Reflections
I want to share a heartening story from my time in Milan. I had the experience twice of feeling like “more” was desired from the people of Milan. Two times I encountered someone coming to me from unlikely places and sharing that there was an opening to the kind of...
by OneDanceTribe | Dec 16, 2016 | Azul, OneDanceTribe, Reflections
Aloha ʻOhana, Maui Greetings to each of of you! E ola mau e nā kūpuna o Kahalawai — life to the ancestors of Kahalawai, are words in a song I wrote honoring the ancestors many years ago in sacred ʻĪao Valley. It was a time when the voices on the wind punctured...
by Pier Paolo de Angelis | Oct 7, 2016 | Azul, Reflections
Embodiment means to occupy one’s body, and its power manifests when we are connected to our bodies. The ancient Hawaiians believed that in listening to the body we are listening to spirit and that – essentially – there is no separation between body and spirit. There...
by Pier Paolo de Angelis | Sep 22, 2016 | Leap Program, Reflections
One of the most important distinctions I learned is the one between the yes and the no to life. When we are in yes mode, we feel carried by the current of life and everything happens easily, naturally and peacefully. When we are in no mode, we struggle and suffer. The...
by Pier Paolo de Angelis | May 7, 2016 | Azul, Reflections
In the spiral of Open we begin with doing the work of listening to our bodies wisdom and opening the body to feel. This strengthens our capacity to stay present to the moment and embrace all that it happening in our human experience. This embrace is the gesture of...
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