🇭🇷 Cijeli tekst na hrvatskom jeziku nalazi se u nastavku, a engleski prijevod čeka vas na dnu stranice.
🇬🇧 The complete Croatian text is below; the English translation awaits you at the bottom of the page.
Suosjećajni ritam: Komunikacija kroz korijenje tijela i uma
Kada upisujemo ples, naša su glava i rokovnici prepuni tehničkih pitanja i velikih očekivanja. Kada ću proplesati? Kako točno trebam izvesti korak? Koliko mi mjeseci ili godina treba da budem dobar? S kim ću plesati, koji je čarobni recept i koliko će me to na kraju novaca koštati?
Na isti način, ovaj se fenomen događa unutar našeg vlastitog tijela kroz svjesno kretanje. Naša osobna tjelesna prisutnost, uz ostvarenje taktilnih površina kroz kretanje noge uz nogu i stopala uz stopalo, spontano usklađuje naše tjelesno, motoričko i mentalno postojanje. Taj neposredni fizički kontakt vlastitih nogu postaje podloga kroz koju sabiremo sebe.
Korijen te tjelesne prisutnosti i glavno uzemljenje izviru iz samog centra tijela – iz zdjelice. Ona je glavni izvor svake kretnje i hvatište gravitacije, no da bi se ta snaga ostvarila, potreban je svjesni pritisak u pod. Taj pritisak nije krut; on se rađa i pulsira kroz ritam našeg disanja. Dah je taj koji povezuje naš centar s podlogom, dajući pokretu fluidnost. Tek kada aktivno i svjesno potisnemo podlogu pod sobom uz podršku vlastitog daha, energija iz centra dobiva svoj stabilan oslonac.
Iz tog pritiska rađa se povratna sila. Pod nam uzvraća istom onom snagom kojom smo ga pritisnuli, gurajući nas prema gore, izdužujući našu kralježnicu i dajući nam stabilnost. Ta povratna sila poda postaje naša stvarna potpora, fizički dokaz da smo uzemljeni.
Sve to vodi do potpunog ostvarenja svjesnosti pokreta i kretanja. Pokret se događa i dok stojimo na mjestu – on nikada nije pasivan, to je unutarnji rad, tonus i skupljanje energije iz poda. Kretanje je tek korak dalje: aktivno korištenje tog unutarnjeg pokreta za putovanje kroz prostor.
Upravo u tom prividnom mirovanju, dok se događa čisti unutarnji pokret, um pronalazi svoje usklađivanje. Kada tijelo miruje na mjestu, a energija unutar njega aktivno radi, um više nema prostora za lutanje. On se spušta u centar tijela, usmjerava na pritisak poda i postaje potpuno prisutan u tom nečujnom, unutarnjem ritmu.
Kroz ta otvorena vrata više ne primjećujemo okolinu kao vanjski šum ili smetnju; prostor oko nas, glazba koja ispunjava zrak i drugi ljudi koji dijele taj isti podij postaju dio našeg vlastitog polja svjesnosti. Čujemo nijanse u glazbi koje prije nismo hvatali i osjećamo geometriju prostora oko sebe.
Tek tada, kada je naš unutarnji mehanizam potpuno usklađen i smiren, spremni smo za povratak na pravu Huygensovu sinkronizaciju. Pod više nije samo naš oslonac, već postaje zajednički medij. Naše mikrovibracije, naš ritam disanja i pritisak koji šaljemo u podlogu počinju suosjećajno rezonirati s okolinom. Postajemo sat koji je spreman uhvatiti ritam cjeline, jer smo napokon posložili vlastite zupčanike.
„U onom trenutku kada prestanemo razmišljati o koracima i analizi pokreta, postajemo pokret i bivanje. Tada ples iz mehaničkog izvođenja prelazi u čisto bivanje. GPS kontaktne površine i korijen tjelesne prisutnosti. ✨️
🇬🇧 Sympathetic Rhythm: Communication Through the Roots of Body and Mind
When we sign up for dance, our minds and schedules are flooded with technical questions and high expectations. When will I start dancing well? How exactly should I execute the step? How many months or years does it take to get good? Who will I dance with, what is the magic recipe, and how much money will it ultimately cost me?
With this restless mind, we step onto the floor, bringing along all our fragmented thoughts, sudden leaps between past and future, and the weight of unfulfilled plans from daily life. We look for a quick formula and a mechanical recipe, yet true transformation does not come from calculations in the head. It comes from the very root of our body, through breathing and the way our feet touch the ground.
Mechanical clocks placed next to one another spontaneously synchronize over time. The impulse for this alignment comes through the transmission of tiny mechanical vibrations through the surface on which they stand. This fascinating physical phenomenon is known as Huygens' synchronization (or sympathetic rhythm).
In the exact same way, this phenomenon occurs within our own body through conscious movement. Our personal bodily presence, combined with the realization of tactile surfaces as leg moves against leg and foot against foot, spontaneously synchronizes our physical, motor, and mental existence. This direct physical contact of our own legs becomes the ground through which we gather ourselves.
The root of this bodily presence and our primary grounding originate from the very center of the body – the pelvis. It is the main source of every movement and the anchor for gravity, but for this power to be realized, a conscious pressure into the floor is required. This pressure is not rigid; it is born and pulses through the rhythm of our breathing. Breath is what connects our center to the surface, giving fluidity to the movement. Only when we actively and consciously press the ground beneath us, supported by our own breath, does the energy from the center gain its stable foundation.
From this pressure, a ground reaction force is born. The floor returns the exact same power with which we pressed it, pushing us upward, lengthening our spine, and giving us stability. This return force of the floor becomes our true support, a physical proof that we are grounded.All of this leads to the full realization of the awareness of movement and motion. Movement happens even when we stand still – it is never passive; it is internal work, muscle tone, and the gathering of energy from the floor. Motion is just a step further: the active use of that internal movement to travel through space.
It is precisely in this apparent stillness, while pure internal movement takes place, that the mind finds its synchronization. When the body rests in place, yet the energy within it is actively working, the mind no longer has room to wander. It drops into the center of the body, focuses on the pressure of the floor, and becomes completely present in that silent, internal rhythm.
This pressure into the floor and the conscious rhythm of inhalation and exhalation finally calm and align our mind amidst all external and internal storms: along with changes in colors, weather influences, interrupted thoughts, communications, and daily circumstances. Amidst sudden leaps between past, present, and future, and the burden of unfulfillment we often carry with us, this internal work keeps us firmly grounded. It is a moment in which thoughts quiet down, and the mind perfectly synchronizes with physical existence.
In this transition, a pivotal moment occurs: the mind finally stops thinking about steps, techniques, and rules. The need for control vanishes. The mind simply becomes present in that pure rhythm of one's own body and the floor. We no longer analyze the movement; we become the movement.
This silence in the head and body allows us to feel every millimeter of the floor and every subtle transfer of weight, transforming dance from a mechanical performance into pure being. Only at that moment, when we are completely gathered within ourselves, do the doors to the awareness of our surroundings open.
Only then, when our internal mechanism is fully aligned and calmed, are we ready to return to true Huygens' synchronization. The floor is no longer just our support; it becomes a shared medium. Our micro-vibrations, our breathing rhythm, and the pressure we send into the ground begin to sympathetically resonate with the environment. We become a clock ready to catch the rhythm of the whole, because we have finally aligned our own gears.
From this pressure and grounding, every motion, every brushing of leg against leg and foot against foot becomes a natural consequence of our internal alignment.
“The moment we stop thinking about steps and analyzing movement, we become movement and being. That is when dance transitions from a mechanical performance into pure being. The GPS of contact surfaces and the root of bodily presence. 🌿
Jelena Somogyi
