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		<title>Dancing for Depression</title>
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						<div class="et_pb_blurb_description"><p>While I dance I cannot judge,<br />I cannot hate,<br />I cannot separate myself from life.<br />I can only be joyful and whole.<br />That is why I dance.</p>
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				<div class="et_pb_text_inner"><p>Recently I've been deriving great joy from taking Lindy Hop dancing lessons and attending my <a href="https://walktoself.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IFS colleague Nico Abramzon</a>'s movement and dance sessions, so I was not suprised to read that <a href="https://www.bmj.com/content/384/bmj-2023-075847" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a systematic review and meta analysis of studies published in the <em>British Medical Journal</em> on the effects of exercise on depression</a> concluded that dancing was the most effective treatment for depression (followed by walking and jogging, and then yoga, which also matches my experience).</p>
<p>Though the confidence level on these results was low due to it being a meta analysis of 218 studies with different methodologies, I think we can safely conclude that dancing brightens our lives and is good for our health! Also of note is that all the types of exercise studied had a greater effect than SSRI antidepressants.</p>
<p>So... move to be! Or as Pina Bausch said, ""Dance, dance... otherwise we are lost."</p></div>
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				<div class="et_pb_text_inner"><span style="font-size: 10pt">Source: <span class="highwire-cite-journal">BMJ</span><span> </span><span class="highwire-cite-published-year">2024</span><span>; </span><span class="highwire-cite-volume-issue">384</span><span> </span><span class="highwire-cite-doi">doi:<span> </span><a href="https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2023-075847" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2023-075847</a></span><span> </span><span class="highwire-cite-date">(Published 14 February 2024)</span></span></div>
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		<title>Los colores de la vida: La Experiencia Tintórea de Tayol en Hueyapan, Puebla</title>
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				<div class="et_pb_text_inner"><p><span style="font-weight: 400">Hace unos meses, después de lo que se sintió como una eternidad de confinamiento por la pandemia, tenía muchas ganas de hacer algo para celebrar el cumpleaños y la reciente vacunación de mi mamá, Araceli, que, como yo, estaba harta de la ciudad y la monotonía del semáforo rojo. La solución perfecta se presentó fortuitamente a través de un WhatsApp de mi amiga Kat: estaba difundiendo una Experiencia Tintórea, impartida por su amiga <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Tayol.Experiencias" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Lily Filomeno Ortiz de Experiencias Tayol</a>, que justo tomaba lugar el fin de semana del cumpleaños.</span></p></div>
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				<div class="et_pb_text_inner"><p><span style="font-weight: 400"><span>Sin saber bien a bien en qué consistiría una “experiencia tintórea”, pero enamorada por la belleza de las imágenes de lanas teñidas y la descripción del senderismo y la degustación de platillos locales que describía el volante, nos apunté de inmediato. Admito que aún así llegué a imaginar que posiblemente sería como muchas de esas “experiencias” que existen por ahí… un poco de turismo, mucho encajarte comercios y una probadita como de “kinder para adultos” de meter una telita en un tinte preparado de antemano para llevarte tu recuerdito del viaje.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">¡Vaya sorpresa me llevé cuando la experiencia tintórea resultó ser nada más y nada menos que un taller exhaustivo y perfectamente diseñado de teñido con tintes naturales! En tres días, Lily nos llevó experta y generosamente de la mano por todo el proceso necesario para teñir con una multitud de tintes naturales como la grana cochinilla, el zapote negro, el cempasúchil, y el azul añil, tanto en telas de origen animal (lana) como vegetal (manta de algodón). No había esperado recibir esa profundidad de conocimiento químico y biológico, con tal precisión pedagógica, compactada en un fin de semana. ¡Y todo presentado de una manera tan divertida y práctica, entrelazada con senderismo para conocer las plantas en su hábitat natural y degustación de platillos deliciosos y poco conocidos fuera de la región! A cada momento había una sorpresa nueva y agradable… no les cuento todo porque pienso que deberían vivirlo Uds. mismes.</span></p></div>
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						<div class="et_pb_blurb_description"><p><i><span style="font-weight: 400">“I believe that knowing oneself is the most important thing a human being can do for [themself]. How can one know oneself? By learning to act not as one should, but as one does.”</span></i></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">—Moshe Feldenkrais</span></p></div>
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				<div class="et_pb_text_inner"><p><span style="font-weight: 400">About two years ago, after one of those harsh and difficult turns that life can take, I had some issues with my thyroid—a gland that is very susceptible to stress and emotional jolts. First I was hyperthyroid, to the point I had what I would characterize as a manic episode. I could hardly sleep because I was having nightmares, and I would swing from euphoria to terror to panic attacks within minutes. I lost 10 lbs in less than a week, although I was eating so much that my mother, with whom I was staying after the aforementioned life crisis, was exasperated because I was eating a week’s worth of food in one day. I also had changes in my vision, and strong pains throughout my body, extreme thirst, dry hair and skin, and a racing heart. I would run out of breath constantly and I felt very weak, which made it difficult for me to make it from my room to the kitchen or bathroom without great effort.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">A couple of months later, after a period where I had leveled off and felt fairly normal, I plummeted… this was a terrible phase that lasted many months. My metabolism slowed down, I gained weight, and I felt a lot of trepidation and a blinding fear about everything, and—most worrisome of all—I felt entirely dead to life. I was in a complete mental and emotional blockage, to the point I feared I had brain damage. Doing anything at all was very difficult, nothing seemed to interest me at all, not even things I used to love. I had trouble distinguishing between important details and insignificant details. I couldn’t recognize a sense of self. I couldn’t read more than a sentence or two of a book, and that with great effort. I couldn’t even do “easy” things like watch TV.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Eventually I learned that what was happening to me, besides the period of hypothyroidism that tends to happen after thyroiditis, was a dysregulated autonomic nervous system response that has a protective intention (likely a combination of sympathetic freeze alternating with parasympathetic collapse): not only had being sick and all the experiences surrounding it been a great shock, but everything I had lived before getting sick had finally overwhelmed me, and my system was trying to protect me as a form of shield or armor. But, as stubborn as I am and as determined to break out of that state as I was, I pushed myself to be active, and would force myself to be with people, to do exercise. I would scold myself a lot, call myself useless and lazy: “You can’t handle anything, what’s wrong with you?”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">This not only was not helpful in breaking me out of this state: <span>every attempt I made to be more active and present actually made</span> this protection take stronger hold. It was like hitting my head against an immovable wall.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">One day, in absolute desperation, I remembered that my friend Paty Solís had given me a Functional Integration Feldenkrais session that had been quite helpful (Feldenkrais is divided into Awareness Through Movement classes and individual sessions of contact and assisted movement called Functional Integration). As my funds were very limited at the time and I was staying at my aunt’s apartment, I looked on the internet for Feldenkrais exercises, and came upon <a href="https://youtu.be/ITneBJ4nKA0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">an older video by teacher Ruthy Alon</a>, one of the most recognized teachers in the method. The class consisted of slow movements that reminded me of a baby learning to crawl.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Without understanding how or why, and in fact feeling a bit silly as I did the movements because of how simple they were, I felt how a huge blockage in me began to dissolve. Something began to unstick in me, subtly but decisively. I was able to cry. I slowly recuperated strength.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">That was the beginning of the path to my recovery (I'll write more eventually about other steps that followed), and what eventually led me to ask Paty to teach Feldenkrais classes for Feral Flow Lab (Paty's sessions are in Spanish, but I recommend <a href="https://www.movementandcreativity.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Movement and Creativity</a> classes for any interested English speakers).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Moshe Feldenkrais said: “It is exactly the opposite of what they say on the television: Higher, faster, stronger. Here we say: slower, more comfortably, more pleasantly.” Many people, like me, have been used to a philosophy of always “going hard,” of strict discipline. Let us not forget that there is great power in tenderness! Through Feldenkrais I am learning how to return to tenderness, to slowness, to being how I am.</span></p></div>
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				<div class="et_pb_text_inner"><p><span style="font-weight: 400">Hace unos años, después de una de esas vueltas fuertes y difíciles que suele dar la vida, me enfermé de la tiroides—una glándula que es muy susceptible al estrés y a los tumbos emocionales. Primero me dio para arriba (hipertiroidismo), al punto que tuve lo que yo caracterizaría como un episodio de manía. Casi no dormía porque tenía pesadillas, y pasaba de la euforia al terror y a ataques de pánico en cuestión de minutos. Perdí 5 kilos en menos de una semana, aunque comía tanto que en un momento mi mamá, con la que me estaba quedando después de susodicha crisis de vida, se desesperó porque me estaba acabando toda la comida de la semana en un día. También me cambió la vista, tenía dolores fuertes en todo el cuerpo, sed extrema, piel y cabello secos y taquicardia. Me faltaba el aliento y estaba muy débil, al punto que me costaba incluso llegar de mi cuarto a la cocina o el baño.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Un par de meses más tarde, después de un periodo de mejoría, me dio en vez para abajo… y esa fue una fase terrible que duró muchos meses. Mi metabolismo se alentó, subí de peso, sentía mucha trepidación y un miedo mudo de todo, y—más preocupante que nada—estaba como muerta en vida. Tenía un bloqueo mental y emocional total, al punto que llegué a temer que tenía daño cerebral. Todo me costaba trabajo, nada me interesaba en lo absoluto, ni lo que antes solía amar. Me costaba distinguir entre detalles importantes y detalles insignificantes. No me reconocía a mí misma. No podía leer más de una o dos oraciones de un libro, y con mucho esfuerzo. No podía ni siquiera hacer algo “fácil” como ver televisión.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Eventualmente supe que lo que me ocurría en ese momento era, además del periodo de hipotiroidismo que suele seguir una tiroiditis, una respuesta de desregulación del sistema parasimpático nervioso que tiene intenciones protectoras (probablemente una mezcla entre "congelación" simpática y "colapso" parasimpático): no sólo había sido un shock enorme la enfermedad misma y todas las experiencias que la rodearon—todo lo que había vivido antes de la enfermedad me había por fin desbordado y mi sistema me estaba intentado proteger, como un tipo de caparazón o armadura. Pero terca como soy y determinada a salir de ese estado, me empujaba a la actividad, me forzaba a estar con gente, a hacer ejercicio… y me regañaba a mí misma mucho, me llamaba inútil y floja: “No puedes con nada, ¿qué te pasa?”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">No sólo no me ayudó ninguno de mis intentos de quebrar el estado de desregulación, sino que sentí que empeoraba con cada intento por forzar estar más activa y presente. Era como darse de bruces contra una pared.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Un día, en la desesperación total, recordé que una amiga, Paty Solís, me había dado una sesión de Integración Funcional de Feldenkrais que me había sentado muy bien (el Feldenkrais se divide en clases de Autoconciencia a Través del Movimiento y sesiones individuales de contacto y movimiento asistido llamadas Integración Funcional). Como en ese momento mis fondos eran muy limitados y me estaba quedando en casa de una tía, busqué en internet ejercicios de Feldenkrais, y di con <a title="Ruthy Alon Movement Nature Meant Part 4" href="https://youtu.be/ITneBJ4nKA0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">un video ya viejito de la maestra Ruthy Alon</a>, una de las maestras más reconocidas del método. La clase consistía en movimientos lentos parecidos al gateo de un bebé.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Sin entender cómo ni por qué, sintiéndome incluso un poco tonta al hacer los movimientos por lo sencillos que eran, sentí cómo ese gran bloqueo que llevaba cargando empezaba a disolverse. Algo se empezó a desatorar en mí, sutil pero contundentemente. Pude llorar. Me regresó progresivamente la fuerza.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Ese fue el principio del camino de mi mejoría (intentaré escribir sobre pasos subsiguientes en otro momento), y lo que eventualmente me llevó a organizar que <a lang="en" href="https://feralflowlab.org/talleres/#feldenkrais" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Paty impartiera clases de Feldenkrais para Feral Flow Lab</a>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Moshe Feldenkrais dijo: “Es exactamente lo opuesto a lo que dicen en la televisión: más alto, más rápido, más fuerte. Aquí decimos: más lento, más cómodamente, más placenteramente.” Mucha gente, como yo, está acostumbrada a una filosofía de siempre “darle duro”, de una disciplina fuerte. ¡Se nos olvida que hay muchísimo poder en la ternura! A través del Feldenkrais estoy aprendiendo cómo volver a la ternura, a la lentitud, a ser yo misma.</span></p></div>
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				<div class="et_pb_text_inner"><p><span style="font-weight: 400">We may at times feel guilty about “indulging” in self care, especially those of us who feel a need to help transform the current sociopolitical reality we find ourselves in. We may feel we are being weak or selfish by taking time to meditate, to rest, to socialize, to exercise, to eat well, to create art. It may feel like we aren’t working hard enough, aren’t suffering enough, for our cause.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">This however, is a false dilemma.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Self care and political work are inextricably intertwined. What other purpose exists for our political work, but to ultimately ensure true, equitable, and sustainable care and wellbeing for all? Wellbeing, too, for our environment, for our fellow creatures, our Earth. And how can we build a new future, if we do not collectively engage in deep personal exploration and development of our potential? How many past revolutions have failed because we got lost in tearing things down, instead of building what is to come?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Of course, as long as we exist in a system that profits from our exhaustion and inability to get our heads above water, true self care will be an impossible to reach vanishing point. We can heal all our past hurts, but new traumas and damages, on a personal and global scale, will continue to tear us down. This doesn’t mean that we can exist without pain, without death, without accident, without imbalance. As Zorba the Greek reminds us, “life is trouble, only death is not!” But much of what we suffer now, in terms of injustice, in terms of lack of opportunity, in terms of exploitation and discrimination and abuse, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400">is</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400"> avoidable, must be transformed. And self care, self transformation, is an integral part of this. As Krishnamurti says, “the transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself.” Even if our current life situation presents challenges in taking care of ourselves to the full extent we would like, let us construct internal and external support networks to decolonize from that which requires our suffering and blood and excessive or demoralizing work. Let us reclaim the necessary. Let us recuperate pleasure. We can be gentler with ourselves, and give priority to our right to wellbeing. And we can create communities that support this work.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">In Audre Lorde’s words: “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence. It is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”</span></p>
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				<div class="et_pb_text_inner"><p><span>Es posible que nos sintamos culpables de “consentirnos” con cuidados personales, particularmente aquelles de nosotres que sentimos la necesidad de transformar nuestra realidad sociopolítica actual. Puede ser que nos sintamos débiles o egoístas al tomar tiempo para meditar, descansar, hacer ejercicio, comer bien, crear arte. Puede ser que sintamos que no estamos trabajando lo suficiente, sufriendo lo suficiente, por nuestra causa.</span></p>
<p><span>Éste, sin embargo, es un dilema falso.</span></p>
<p><span>El autocuidado y el trabajo político están intrínsecamente relacionados. ¿Qué otro propósito existe para nuestro trabajo político, mas que garantizar cuidado y bienestar verdadero, equitativo y sostenible para toda persona? Bienestar, también, para nuestro medio ambiente, para nuestras criaturas hermanas, para nuestra Tierra. ¿Y cómo podemos crear un nuevo mundo, si no nos dedicamos colectivamente a una profunda exploración personal y al desarrollo de nuestro potencial? ¿Cuántas revoluciones pasadas han fallado porque nos perdimos en desmantelar, en vez de en construir lo que viene?</span></p>
<p><span>Claro que mientras existamos en un sistema que saque provecho de nuestro agotamiento y nuestra inhabilidad de salir adelante, el verdadero autocuidado será un punto de fuga inalcanzable. Podemos sanar nuestras heridas pasadas, pero nuevos traumas y daños, a un nivel personal y global, nos seguirán derruyendo. Esto no quiere decir que podamos existir enteramente sin dolor, sin muerte, sin desbalance. Como nos recuerda Zorba el Griego, “la vida es dificultad, sólo la muerte no lo es”. Pero mucho de lo que sufrimos ahora en cuanto a injusticias, en cuanto a falta de oportunidades, en cuanto a discriminación y explotación y abusos, <em>sí</em> es prevenible, y debe ser transformado. Y el autocuidado y la transformación personal son una parte esencial de este proceso. Como dice Krishnamurti, “la transformación del mundo se lleva a cabo a través de la transformación de une misme”. Aunque nuestra situación presente de vida nos presente retos en cuidar de nosotres mismes como quisiéramos, construyamos redes de apoyo internas y externas para descolonizarnos de eso que nos explota a través del sufrimiento y la sangre y el exceso de trabajo. Retomemos lo necesario. Recuperemos el gusto. Podemos ser más tiernes con nosotres mismes, y dar prioridad a nuestro derecho al bienestar. Y podemos crear comunidades para apoyar este trabajo.</span></p>
<p><span>En las palabras de Audre Lorde: “Cuidar de mí misma no es autocomplacencia. Es autoconservación, y eso es un acto de guerra política”.</span></p></div>
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