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Laceweb Action - July 2001

Talking about mindbody wellbeing
Our Brazilian friend introduces movement and dance as ways of healing, and re-membering and re-embodying good times.

Brazilian dance moves
The islander attendees really resonate with the dance moves - especially those mirroring the movement of animals. We also experience shifting our visual focus between distant, mid-distant, close and peripheral - awareness of awareness for refining functioning.

Moving like a monkey
This experience is playful and fun, and simultaneously works at many levels of neuro-psycho-biology.

Soon everyone is involved
Most of the women attendees are a little shy of being photographed during the gathering.

Becoming reptiles
As one young Aboriginal women says, 'Consider the grace of the goanna and the snake. They do not judge us and put us down. They notice and respect us, and pass us by.'

Learning from nature
These animal movements create possibilities for reconstituting states of being in everyday life - something that the indigenous peoples of the World have known and practiced for thousands of years.

Becoming the crocodile
Some attendees at the Gatherings experience the cultural action at Laura in the week before the gathering.

The croc and the fisherman
Young children learn that the crocodile can creep up and sniff their ear, and they won't know he is there till he grabs them and rolls them into the water.

Friends parting ways
Aboriginals learn situated community in dance, song and art. Parting in the vastness of the Australian outback is never trivial. To be together and to separate involves notions of cleavered unity - being together in their separateness - respecting social cohesion, place and diversity.

Becoming the kangaroo
A hunter learns to become a kangaroo so that he can get close enough to catch one - doing things naturally.

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