After spending some time in the shower considering my last post, I remembered that the first time I saw Brenda teach, the class was on body integration. It was the summer, and I had left Santa Fe bound for New Haven. I spent some time at the parents', and then went to a little blues workshop in Philadelphia. That was my first exposure to teaching other than my original teachers in NM.
In the shower, I was thinking of Ted Shawn and the movement traveling from the shoulders to the fingers; that is exactly what Brenda was teaching in Philadelphia. Her class hit me like a blaze, and I knew - I have to do this. Similar with meditation. Similar with Aikido. Similar with lots of things, but that was a very powerful moment.
