RealityPivots

I moved my stuff out of the Guest Shed.

From Moving out

Luckily the Old Tool Shed renovation was far enough along that I could sling up a storage shelf and squirrel things away.

From Old Tool Shed

Then Lisa started moving in. She was a tango student of mine and was showing great promise but then work and school distracted her. When she visited Shedville some months ago we talked a little about her staying in the Guest Shed. Now she’s here on the Master Gardener Residency Fellowship.
After 10 years of living out here alone it’s time for a change. This could be a an exciting new era in Shedville or it could be a plan to have someone to watch the property while I stay in Buenos Aires for a couple of years.
My private student, Susan, has been visiting Shedville twice a week for tango lessons. At our last lesson she asked how she was supposed to know were I wanted her to move. That gave me pause. Skipped an essential element didn’t you Dave?! My response yesterday was to do away with arms. Susan has focus and concentration but she relies on intelligence. After our initial introduction to close embrace and connection through forward inclination I let her find her own comfort zone as we covered walking to the cross, ochos, ocho cortado, sandwich.
Now it was time to return to connection. Her balance is a little weak.
So, we dispensed with arms, and we concentrated on ochos. I had her reduce the size of her ochos, of her pivots, to the smallest possible extent, so that she was basically walking with just the smallest amount of variation from a straight line as she walked backward. Chest to chest I moved her backward and gave the slightest of chest leads to move her from side to side. Slowly her balance improved as she reduced the Effort she was making. Slowly she felt the signals I was giving her. Finally her legs were connected to her hips and the small rocking movements were slinging her legs back to rest for the next step. Finally I could feel the pressure of my chest being transmitted through her body from chest down the side of her body to her hips and legs and placing her feet on the floor. She could feel it too. That was great.