In November 2019, I was at the Body IQ Festival at the Somatic Academy Berlin with a host of international movement experts like Dr Martha Eddy and Trude Cone. The workshop that spoke to me the most was Moving Thought: The hidden choreography governing our lives by Trude Cone, a Body Mind Centering Practitioner and Neuro-physiological therapist based in Amsterdam.
In her Moving Thought choreography, I and the other participants huddled together in a tight group, then separated to spread out in the room, came together again, intermittently changing speed and direction. We then formed small groups and continued in this way. Trude explained that the way we were moving mirrored the movement of cellular life.
„All aspects of our lives, from conception to death, inside and outside of our bodies and in the world follow the same choreography. In a world governed by technology, sitting in front of our screens, we often forget that the world is a moving place, living beings are moving entities. We‘re always moving from one place to another, towards something or away from something, coming together, separating. We are born into a moving world“.
During this choreography, I didn’t feel separate from the other people, or specifically human even, it was more like being a fish in a swarm, part of a continual pulsation, part of a communal breath. And I felt the ease of the breath flow at that moment, in this state of simply experiencing myself as a cellular being in a moving world.
