Brainstorm
After Nate's injury at the end of Movement Minyan last week we began our meeting with Ebn by discussing the role the habits play. In many ways, habits serve to protect us. When we reach out into the unknown and begin to let our habit patterns fall away it is easier for us to get injured. In the long run it may be better to undo a habit, but in the short term this has been a reminder to all of us to be careful and stay present as we let down our defenses.
In thinking about this week's session we became interested in playing with the same exercise we did last session in a new way. Perhaps it was a result of our instructions or perhaps it was simply our collective tendency, but last session we observed that to be "directed" for many of us means one thing: to follow or to mirror one another. Through our process in the Minyan we are excited to explore and unearth a range of interactions and postures between "rag doll" and moving totally on our own; between passively following or being totally independent. Ebn pointed out that this tendency mirrors the relationship that many of us have with the siddur: either we do our own thing apart from the set liturgy, or we allow the siddur to be in total control and we mirror what we see. What are new
