The 7 core elements
The 7 pillars are the foundations from which Haragati takes shape. I have created these bases in order to integrate the different body movement disciplines that I have had the opportunity to explore and that have awakened a deep interest in me. Thanks to these techniques, I have been able to develop this project and take the elements that have impacted me the most from each one in order to share them.
Likewise, these 7 pillars aim to support the guidance I offer, through both the practice and theory that sustain life processes, as well as creative and artistic ones. They provide a clear and effective support to activate vital energy through the exploration of body movement, expanding bodily and sensory perception, and allowing the awakening of the authentic state of being.
Physical conditioning
The body as a living territory, in relation to the environment, history, and individual and collective experience. It needs to be present, strong, and flexible. Physical conditioning will give you these tools and more, allowing you to transform and take action. An uninhabited or neglected body will drift aimlessly; on the contrary, a trained body can be imagined as a great muscle that supports the entire rest of the process…
Exploration
Exploration as a fundamental basis of any process: without it, there is no possibility of error, and without error, there is no learning. Allowing ourselves to take different paths, to explore other spaces. Entering the unknown in order to give it form. Moving through and feeling our way into these new places allows us to expand our spatio-temporal perception and open new paths, more aligned with our interests and desires.
Transformative action
When we return to the body — that is, when we begin to feel it again, move it differently, and breathe it — neural networks are activated, lowering the volume of the restless mind and allowing us to move into action toward what we want to make tangible. When the mind is emptied of ruminative thoughts, transformation can happen, and change arrives to give impulse to movement, understood here as the power to act and bring into reality what we need to accomplish in order to fulfill our projects and dreams.
Balance
Balance is not something that is maintained in a fixed place; it is something in constant movement in order to find that “right” point. Understanding this principle or pillar through the body is a wonderful sensation that allows us to apply it to other areas of life, with others and with ourselves; for example: the act of giving and receiving, in a continuous flow, so that neither side outweighs the other. It is equally important to support and to be supported, without emptiness, with full surrender to holding and being held.
Expression
Being in our center (called here HARA), we allow ourselves to express our truth through play, and once again deepen the exploration of other possibilities. There are as many forms of expression as there are human beings. We give ourselves the possibility of shaping these intangibles in order to express ourselves from authenticity.
Proprioception and perception
Proprioception gives us the possibility of being authentic, and the perception of our environment allows us to understand the world in a different way. By positioning ourselves — positioning the body — we give meaning to perceived sensations, activating imagination and thus allowing us to project new scenarios. Space-time can take on a new definition for our creations through this principle.
Creativity
Creation happens in every moment in which we perform an action — no matter how small or automatic it may seem — it will never be the same as another, and that is pure, present creation, even if we do not perceive it that way. Now, when we focus on creating something “new” and become blocked, we return to the body, to feeling, and there returns the sense that every breath is a new beginning and a closing. Using this as a tool for my project Haragati, for artistic projects, or for navigating life processes, has been my greatest ally.
Understanding the body as a living territory, in relation to the environment, history, and individual and collective experience, we generate changes — physical, emotional, and cognitive — that allow us to move forward, bringing in that “spice” and “sweetness” that life needs, according to my perspective.
Giving a name to these 7 pillars has taken me a long time of research and personal exploration in many senses — not only through physical movement. I therefore propose forms of guidance that allow for exploration across different disciplines, offering a warmer and lighter process, more attuned to individual rhythm, since we all need different paths for creation — understanding the creative process as a cyclical state that requires silence, time, and pauses.
These pillars are worked with in a dynamic and constant way; they do not follow a linear process with a rigid beginning and end. From the felt sense of each moment and the listening to each body present in the space, the necessary rhythm emerges to activate transformation.
To finish, and to be honest, I prefer practice. So I invite you to join one of the classes to begin to feel and reconnect with your bodily spice and sweetness.
