OK, I’m back….Quite Literally:

Back to blogging.
Back on the East Coast.
Back in my parent’s house in Connecticut.
Back and ready to teach my first class/workshop in six months this Friday (and raring to start teaching again, period.)

Today’s agenda:  create the workshop for dropping back.  I’ve been thinking about it a lot, ranging from imaging how fun it will be, mostly how great to connect with old students, to having very specific ideas while I’m practicing over the past month and making mental notes to incorporate them on the evening’s dance-card.

But today I have to shape things more specifically, narrow down the playlist from infinite to 2 hours, and decide which of my wackier brainstorms will actually translate for students.  [I am reminded of how Diana Vreeland confesses to wandering through the Vogue offices shouting “Remember Velasquez!” and admitting something close to (I’m paraphrasing) “that was one of my ideas that never quite caught on with the general public.”]

My goal in the workshop is to not only create a fabulously fun time (lots of sweaty, euphoric movement) and of course to also impart some information, but also (and more importantly) to create a metaphor of the dropback experience where each person gets to move beyond some fear or into the unknown (in a supported way.)   IE, breakthrough time!