The Wild Flesh
movement is a poetry. it speaks a language of its own. through movement i get to know myself beyond intellect. we are trained to constantly think we need to 'fix' our issues through the mind - movement is a mediator that communicates how sometimes the body knows how to heal us in ways the mind is not yet ready, or able to comprehend. when i move i move like its a dance, a conversation with myself. listening in as much as i actively give back ~ a symbiotic exchange of presence, of care.
shape shifting and untangling between postures and sequences that feel challenging, cathartic, tender and freeing, movement anchors me in f e e l i n g through a present moment, curiously, courageously and compassionately. The body as a teacher, movement feeds my psyche lessons through metaphor, that I can use in my day-to-day.
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I spent the past few years exploring
vulnerability + connection
through art & community.
These days, it feels like I’m exploring the same focus, just in a diff. medium.
Maybe even more deeply,
moving out of a heady way of knowing
and allowing rm to be
informed by feeling, subtlety, intuitive guidance - revealed through opening breath + body.
- healing from the roots up* rather than the other way around.
I’ve been teaching classes to explore this
in rich ABUNDANCE lately,
Recently, at a pt where i felt FULL,
I picked up the book thats been an anchor to my sense of self *
Womxn Who Run with the Wolves
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& As always, opened it arbitrarily
& found the exact words I needed to read,
giving words to an intuitive attraction I have to movement as a medium of self-exploration.
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~ J O Y O U S BODY : The Wild Flesh ~
“Some say the soul informs the body.
But what if we were to imagine for a moment tht the body informs the soul?
The idea in our culture of body solely as sculpture is wrong. Body is not marble. That is not it’s purpose. It’s purpose is to protect, contain, support, and fire the spirit and soul within it, to be a repository for memory, to fill us with feeling - that is the supreme psychic nourishment.
It is to lift us and propel us, to fill us with feeling to prove that we exist, that we are here, to give us grounding, heft, weight...
The body is a living record of
Life given,
Life taken,
Life hope for,
Life healed.
Anywhere the flesh is pressed, wrung, even touched lightly,
a memory may flow out a stream.”
Movement as a curious self-study through the exploration of the body,
The body has carrier of lineage, memory and story,
The breath as a site of inquiry.
Movement is a returning of trust back into the body,
As holding an intelligence of its own.
It is a practice of deep compassionate listening in.
Renelyn Quinicot is a queer Filipina artist and movement and meditation guide, born and raised as a settler to Tkaronto. Whether through her relational-art practice, or body-mind facilitation, her work centres in community, and a compassionate, curious self-study as a mediator for connection to all. She integrates her studies in arts and curation in the ways she holds space as a meditation and mindful movement teacher. She is trained to offer Kundalini Yoga and breathwork, as well as Fusion styles that combine Pilates, Yoga stretches and aerobic dance to encourage PLAY as an act of resilience, and an exploration of the body as a carrier of lineage and story. She is currently studying with New Leaf Foundation to inform her teaching with more of a social justice-focused and trauma-aware lens.
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