My high school PE teacher pushed me from uneven bars to dancing from a rope

In junior high, our gym P.E. teacher seemed barely older than we were, likely straight out of college, and many times I suspected her of being secretly competitive with us students. Sure enough, when she taught the class how to use the uneven parallel bars, she showed me her true colors.

"Marci, come up here and try this trick, I'll spot you." She knew I could pretty much do anything, try anything, I had taken gymnastics & ballet for a few years. So, courageous girl that I was, I flung myself around the wood, flying, splaying, praying that I would not splat onto the mat.

Gloria was not even there!
I noticed, as I elevated myself off my ankles, from the deep crouch of my stick. She had walked away, and left me to possibly fall without a monitor to my momentum. "Oh, I see you figured out that you had to bend your knees" she mumbled, jeering over me.

Needless to say, when I appeared at the Cheerleading auditions, she and her bff chemistry teacher Ms M. got into a huddle. When they emerged, I saw there was a black line through my name and Gloria had successfully rid herself of her greatest competitor, a 14 year-old girl.

At first, I was outraged. I could do better splits, turns, somersaults, and high kicks than anyone there. Humph! But after the basketball season began, and I saw the boring unison routines that the girls were doing, how they all had to become one of a crowd. I realized Gloria had done me a huge favor.

The next year I went on to become the youngest Choreographer in the history of my High School, restarting their Musical Comedy tradition. I persuaded the choir director I was a capable collaborator, and staged "The King & I" with my best friend Rick from community theatre as the male lead, and myself as the dance lead.

The next year we did "Carousel", and it was just the beginning of a long, long career in the performing arts...

Because of a jealous gym teacher, I was blocked out of being a cheerleader, and instead became an improvisational explorer, dangling from ropes and being flown from the rafters!

Instead of the strict structure of a colorguard team, I was led thru the Door of boundless imagination...

THANKS to Creative Intelligence and the Flow that Knows, I was chosen to go the way I am today.

May you always fly when you least expect it!

Source: zenartsla.com via Marci on Pinterest

Book Signing PARTY! 8/19/12 with free Playshop & HeathNut Mixer

Book Signing PARTY! 8/19/12
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Feel Like Yourself Again by Marci Javril, Vitality Expert
How to heal & recover from injury, surgery & illness. Self-help methods made simple for daily use. Guidelines for cleansing, internal organs detox, soften scars & adhesions, reduce pain & swelling, improve digestion, boost immunity, increase circulation, optimize your vitality! 145 pages spiral-bound manual color illustrated. Bibliography, charts, references, links, bonuses. click to download Free Preview & Table of Contents

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Learning how to sew, taught me how to go with my own Flow

My mom was a great seamstress and made most of our clothes, including doll clothes. As I grew up, I became more & more eager to sew with the sewing machine, instead of by hand, but Mom did NOT want to teach me. She said I had to wait until they taught me in Home Economics (7th grade...?). Then she would trust me with the dangerous sewing machine needle and powerful foot pedal.

OK, grumbling but not stymied, I made an entire patchwork jumpsuit by hand. I determined the pattern by placing the pieces on the ground, cutting it out just by eyeballing it. I wore that jumpsuit until it was in shreds. But by the time I got my hands on a sewing machine, I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it! And I did, and from ages 8-38+, I proceeded to make my own wardrobe of clothes, designed costumes for shows, special effects & dance performances.

My hands were just beginning to show how hungry they were to create ...pottery, music, drumming....(more stories later)

Choosing fabric & patterns to make my own clothing gave me a chance to really be unique, no one had my dress, no one shared the same pants outfit. Mom encouraged me to be different, and to choose my specific styles & color combinations, and alter the dress pattern to suit my own stature & purpose.

Learning how to do it myself, and making what I produced ONE OF A KIND, became a metaphor for other projects in my life. I only hope that young people everywhere get the kind of attention and praise that I did... by persisting, and trying new things, opening my mind to ways that would be unusual, or from a new perspective - this was how I learned to sew my own clothes, and ultimately, to go with my own flow.

Thanks Jean, for guiding me to do it for myself, my own way, in many ways, every day.

Source: quirkyquilteraus.blogspot.com via Marci on Pinterest

Perfect pitch turns me into a liar

As a child, one doesn't know what is considered real Talent, and what is "just me being me" normal. When I began to play piano by ear at age 5, my parents sent me to lessons. But even after 3 years, it turned out I wasn't sight-reading the pieces, I was replicating what I had HEARD when the teacher played  them to me! My perfect pitch turned out to keep me from learning how to READ music. But not for long...

Source: musicnotes.com via Marci on Pinterest

Dancing on the edge of the picnic table

Remembering... Dancing on the picnic table while Daddy was practicing with his Big Band, out in the midst of the meadow, the County Fairgrounds being our home for the week... I loved hearing the drums and horns rattling and raising the rhythm, stirring something deep inside me, could NOT keep my legs from moving. Daddy would pick me up, putting my feet down firmly, telling me to watch the edge, because I would get excited while concentrating on the enticing music, and might lose track of being on an elevated surface.

This turned out to be a Life Metaphor that I relived in many different versions... more to come...

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