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Spirit and Mirth
Sometimes the content of this site gets entirely too serious. Something I appreciate about being in a group of people is the humor that is produced by select individuals who connect with joy by being silly and providing a situation for others to laugh. I may shake my head in disbelief at some of what they say or do, but there are few things I enjoy more than someone with whom I can share my deepest thoughts on one level and gut wrenching humor on another…
An Unconventional Method of State Change
Master Certified Coach, Helen Attridge Green, learned a technique from Tony Robbins while she was a coach for his company (which attests to it’s unconventional but effective origins 
). During the coaching course she passed it on to us…and now I am passing the torch to you, my dear readers!
Whenever the group needed an energy shift, she’d stand up and have us “just shake our asses”. I still see Helen in my mind’s eye in her lime green jacket, hair flying, shaking away…her mere presence a smiling shock-wave of friendly enthusiasm!
The changed physiology made it easy to shift states, renew energy and internally clear out the remnants of what we had been working on. There we were, in a meeting room, a group of thirty some people, hair flying, ass-shaking and giggling away in surprise and perhaps even a bit of wonder at just how good it feels to really shake your ass!
It became a kind of mantra for me…whenever I wanted to lighten things up I would suggest we shake our asses and have at it! It was a fun way to move into a joyous state…
Booty-Ananda
One member of our class, however, already knew how good it feels to “shake it” and she took this technique to a new level. The night before the end of the course we all went out as a group to Kincaid’s, a restaurant with a small dance floor and a live band. We had some real dancers hidden within our collective…including an actual instructor and at least five others who really knew what they were doing! I, of course, was not one of them!
With a room full of adept dancers, it took a Mochatini and a Mojita before I was ready to be pulled up onto the dance floor and just shake it (which is really the only method of dance that I know how to do…never having learned anything that remotely resembles moves).
When I got onto the dance floor I was inspired to really cut loose and give it a go because there dancing next to me was the booty shaking goddess of all time! This butt dancing diva displayed a pure form and mastery of the skill…reminding me of some aspects of belly dancing…(I have a theory that these kinds of movements promote the transfer of energy up through the first chakra and beyond but we’ll save that for another post ).
This goddess whom a member of the class aptly named Booty-Ananda, was kind enough to take on a few pupils that evening and one of her sessions we even have on film!
With that in mind and of course with permission I am sharing a video of a phenomena that was the topic of deep discussions, near car accidents and of course just plain fun!
So if life is getting a little too intense, and you just need a completely new attitude…get up, take a few deep breaths and practice “shakin it” with Booty-Ananda. I guarantee you’ll feel better 
