# Free Dance Movement

I’m not a dancer.

But **I am a juggler, and dancing is the ultimate juggling experience**. It requires no extra equipment and no prep–just a little bit of space, and (ideally) some music. I can roll with that.

Dancing makes me feel free in my body.

It makes me feel connected.

And it’s so much fun.

There’s nothing quite like a **3-minute dancing break** to get unstuck from a problem I’m facing at work. I purposefully make it ”tiny” (just one song) to reduce the resistance of starting. And I put zero pressure on making it pretty. I move as my body feels like. Sometimes it looks as a low-budget kung-fu movie. Sometimes it looks like I’m having a seizure. And sometimes it looks like a weird crossover of [Butoh dancing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ms7MGs2Nh8) with traditional [Polish folk dancing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NetnbP4E04). I don’t care. 

The thing is: the second I start to dance the “dots” connect in my head, and the problem I’m facing solves itself. All I need to do is move my body.

### Dance Challenges

[🎥](https://emojipedia.org/movie-camera/) [30-Day Dance Challenge](https://youtu.be/WxppPgDSgVc) with Silvia: we danced together every day for 30 days to see how it would impact our relationship. Spoiler alert: it was brilliant.

🎧 [Dancing Playlist on Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3TSHoXFiob7xOuVEuYOmpJ?si=zswaUc8ASMWpGvRZizdAPg): dancing to one song every day as a part of #playful movement focus area in [2020](https://heymichal.gitbook.io/journal/notes/2020).