Jason Alan Griffin :: The Blog

In November we used the "Orbit" routine seven times in Volunteer Park Here are the foci I used for each class: Nov 3 - Music/Body Connection Today we are beginning work on a new routine so I want to focus on the music. Today I also want to focus on Mental Energy, but on using as little as possible. Notice how you can bypass your thinking and let the music directly affect your body. Feel the music and express what you feel.  Nov 7 - Sensing Weight Shift in the Legs This routine has a strong emphasis on the legs. Today let's focus on the concept of shifting our body weight from one leg to another or to distribute the weight equally on both. Notice how proper placement of the feet on the ground and weight distribution in your legs can affect your emotions. Split your focus between your legs and my legs for the purpose of being guided to allowing the choreography to energize you with positive supportive emotions.  Nov 14 -  Steps and Stances Feel the distinction between a ste...

 I practice making any situation into a learning growing experience. What may first seem like a setback can usually be turned into a positive renewal or a discovery of new things.  Such is the case when we went into lockdown and could no longer meet for classes. Many teachers went to electronic classes and started teaching on "Zoom", but I had to honor my intuition that it wasn't the right thing for me. Personally, on Zoom or other cyber meeting platforms, I don't feel the same connection to my students which is one of the most important elements of meeting for group classes. So while I would have loved to be able to teach to students all over the world, I felt I owed it to myself and my students to only offer as full and rich an experience as possible. So I chose instead to stop teaching.  Several months later, things started to look better and I experimented with holding small classes indoors using face masks. And once again, I found that while that may work with ot...