Sadness & Happiness

Sketch is done by Elizabeth Rutten-Ng, Founder of Embodied-Movement in her own personal reflection space.

Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height.
Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches.
Happiness is like a tree growing up into the sky and
Sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the Earth.

Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously.
The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots.
In fact, it is always in proportion.
That's its balance.
~ Osho

Workshop Photos

Active imagination is the essence of that re-creative process. ~ Joan Chodorow

Sharing some photos captured by another photographer friend, Alan Wong, of our workshop 'Contact Improvisation and Dance Therapy' in Singapore 2013 which I co-facilitated with Vincent Yong, Danspire.  Thank you Alan for the lovely photos! ~ Elizabeth Rutten-Ng, Embodied Movement

Letting Go, Let it Flow

Seeking to make sense, to clarify and yet being comfortable of not knowing.

Mindfulness and being in the presence with our body, mind, emotion and spirit ground us to be in peace within and outer.

It is a life process and journey.
Being open to let life unfold and be surprised by what is to be revealed.

Letting go, let it flow.

Letting go means it is to trust the unknown and the flow.
Let it flow means not to control every circumstance and situation under our thumb.

When action is needed to take, take.
When there is need to grief, grief.
When there is a need to stop, stop.
When there is need for boundary, set it.
When we don't know, we don't know.....

It is about striking a balance between the polarities
moving from one end to the other
and coming to homeostasis in every flow.

When we truly let it go, let it flow, we find peace reside within us.
There is a season under Heaven, every activity on Earth.
If we flow with what the season takes us, and be in the season,
the flow of life creates a harmony within us even in the midst of chaos.

It is natural, not forced, imposed or pretend.
It is pure organic.

~ Elizabeth Rutten-Ng, Embodied Movement - Dance Movement Therapy