We’ve been working on repulse monkey in class. I used to hate repulse monkey. I like it now - it used to feel like dance or something froofy, but now I’ve had a chance to work through where the power is, where the intention is, and it feels completely different.

Today I was trying to pay attention to the arm part of the movement, as that’s where the last of the ‘dance’ feeling resides. The beginning of the movement has a lot of intention in the arms, but the whole opening up and ‘ta-da’ part of the end has bothered me for some time. Edward demonstrated for me and I got some insight - there’s more of a twisting open into that nice arms-rounded kind of pose than there is a spread out ‘ta-da’ thing. I’m sure I’m making no sense here, but it made sense this morning in class.

And as I haven’t seen a monkey in days, it must be working on some level.