Zooming into the future!

​Not being able to hold classes in my beautiful studio is frustrating, but this has spurred the future into the present.  I’m teaching on Zoom and fibre is moments away from being installed in my home, I will be supersonic soon.  I can teach all day long if I wish, and from the comfort of my own lounge.   I wonder will this stick after #stayhome is over?  I guess many people will prefer not to travel if possible and fewer will want to be in a class with others, until a vaccine is found.  Perhaps this style of teaching is here to stay at least for the next while! 
 
I’m loving teaching the kids and adults improvisation on Zoom.  In the most recent class they were hilarious as they had to get themselves out of a trap (a bear trap no less).  They were asked to focus on making the imaginary real as they struggled to free themselves.  
 
It’s fascinating that the more they pretend to get themselves out of a trap the less interesting it is, and when they really see and feel with their own bodies the elements of the trap – the hard metal and sharp teeth - then the rest of their environment comes to life too - the forest, the gash in their leg.  And their escape from a bear trap becomes sheer brilliance as I even see their muddy wet bottoms!   It becomes that real because they stop relying on their imaginations and instead respond to a real moment.  Wow!  
 
In improvisation we are invited to get out of our over planning minds and trust the focus of the game to deliver truth.  That’s the magic folks!  Being in the living moment.