Awaken Fool!

I was sent this link, it is very true. When you have been a clown, your life is never the same again. It is funny to think of the clown as awake, but truly as we move through crowds and connect with people we awaken the funny side of ourselves and others, unable to take life seriously in the moment. We are all fools and that is okay.

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The fool’s gift is the ability to be totally awake, as each moment unfolds. By developing this quality we connect poetically with our surroundings and others, communicate authentically and with compassion, befriend and play with all our emotions and experience more beauty and happiness in every day situations, our work and personal relationships. In bypassing the mind’s noise through physical play, and being observant of the flow of feelings-sensations in the body, the workshop puts you in touch with an infinite source of creativity. In clown improvisation you find out that you do not need to be perfect or even good at anything. It is possible to fail successfully over and over again and enjoy it! We can be curious instead of fearful and present instead of thinking worrying and planning. And when we are present life is a joy whatever the circumstances.

THE CLOWN

In clowning we notice everything as life unfolds in and around us. The clown has an uncomplicated ‘just arrived’ quality. This simplicity is tremendously freeing. Having no history, the clown has a unique, playful and curious relationship with everyday situations and big dramas, like life and death. Times of struggle can become luminous and very funny even, once we start to see the world through the clown. We see with new eyes and can relate to life with trust and spontaneity. More of who we really are can show up in the world and we in turn are able to receive more of what life and others wish to reveal to us. No experience of clowning is needed.