{"id":29915,"date":"2015-08-03T12:39:33","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T16:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wanderlust.com\/?p=29915"},"modified":"2015-10-02T18:05:48","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T22:05:48","slug":"dance-break-listen-to-your-gut-tasha-blank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/ro\/journal\/dance-break-listen-to-your-gut-tasha-blank\/","title":{"rendered":"Dance Break: Listen to Your Gut"},"content":{"rendered":"

I pulled a crazy move last week.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As free spirited as I love to consider myself, I\u2019m still the kind of person who shows up where I\u2019m supposed to, (usually) on time, with a bag of kale chips just in case there\u2019s nothing good to eat.<\/p>\n

But while soaking up the last rays of sun on the last day of my last Wanderlust Festival of the summer, I realized I wasn\u2019t ready to get on the NYC-bound flight\u00a0I\u2019d booked months before.\u00a0I couldn\u2019t rationalize\u00a0why,\u00a0because it wasn\u2019t my mind nudging me\u00a0to stay out west; it was my gut.<\/p>\n

And since pretty much\u00a0all I talk about<\/a>\u00a0is just how genius that thing is, I had to follow it.<\/strong>
\nSo I hitched a ride to LA\u00a0for a week, and it was basically one giant\u00a0thumbs up\u00a0from the universe.<\/p>\n

As Martha Graham put it:\u00a0The body doesn’t lie.<\/h4>\n

When our external circumstances are in flux (aka always),\u00a0we’ve got a direct line of\u00a0communication to the truth\u00a0inhabiting our heads shoulders knees & toes.<\/p>\n

As Elena B put it\u00a0the other\u00a0night at Deep House Yoga<\/a>:
\nThe question to ask\u00a0in each +\u00a0every moment is<\/em>
\n Am I opening? Or am I closing?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sometimes it\u2019s necessary to be closed.
\nOther times, hardening our hearts is just a way of keeping them from cracking open to the\u00a0well of inspiration, information and new possibilities available to us.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not about a specific time, space,\u00a0person or\u00a0choice.
\nIt\u2019s about trusting life,
\nfollowing your highest excitement,<\/strong>
\nand saying YES to what your bones know to be real.<\/p>\n