In his MusiCares Person of the Year acceptance speech, Dylan revealed part of his composing process, saying, "I learned lyrics and how to write them from listening to folk songs. And I played them, and I met other people that played them back when nobody was doing it. Sang nothing but these folk songs, and they gave me the code for everything that's fair game, that everything belongs to everyone."
I liken this to what we have been learning these past few months. Practicing and experimenting with different poses to create sequences is part of a great tradition being passed down to us by Colleen and Rodney, who learned from their teachers, the importance of continuing to find different ways to evolve our skills and share more about the unending secret codes that can be uncovered through practicing yoga.
Dylan said, "Critics have said that I've made a career out of confounding expectations…I don't even know what that means or who has time for it."
I have found that in creating sequences, something like Dylan has in writing songs, that we can positively confound the expectations of all those who practice with us in a way that often defies words but that can be realized and felt.
Dylan quotes Sam Cooke "voices ought not to be measured by how pretty they are. Instead they matter only if they convince you that they are telling the truth"
It's not always about the voice as it is about the lyrics of a song.
It's not always about the body but rather the poses of a sequence - that silently speak of an otherwise undefinable truth.
Doreen
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