Evanna Lynch Instagram – Just looking back on some of my favourite hoop routines & tricks from 2022… I don’t know where I’d be without my aerial practice but let’s not find out 🙂 Thank you to all my amazing teachers this year @genevievecircus @clare_in_the_air @zackkattackked @maisiewhitehead @katherinehardwick @cirquejoel @morganbarbour and the many others whose classes I’ve dropped into. And @circus_belle who I miss but who always lends me her expertise and keen eye for beauty. It is the greatest indulgence and biggest blessing to learn from such talented artists and kind teachers 💗
Ironically, spinning around a metal hoop has been the most centred I’ve felt all year. I have felt so ‘off centre’ in my personal/professional/social lives and been scrambling to establish a sense of normality. It all feels like uncharted territory, which my mind doesn’t relish. I am having to learn to slow down and be in the moment with everything, rather than reacting with the fight/flight response and then rushing every conversation, every interaction, every meal, every audition, every book, etc. I rush things so that I can get through them so that they’ll be done and it won’t all feel so overwhelming, but I actually don’t want to ‘get through’ all of life. It could all be over all of a sudden! I want to be present more, and centred 🌀
I had a major ‘aha!’ moment a couple weeks ago from something @zackkattackked said. We were working on spinning and ‘finding the centre’ and Zaki said ‘you don’t force your way to the centre, you have to let your body find it’ and it was just 🤯 It was crazy what a difference it made to relax and feel my way to that still point of the spin, rather than just trying to GET THERE.
I’ve been trying to force my way back to my centre for months and all it’s done is make me dizzy 😵💫 so here’s to presence and another year of spinning and circus and finding one’s own centre amidst the chaos whirling around us 🌪️ | Posted on 31/Dec/2022 16:55:00
