It was a good camp.
I did 5 workshops - all went well, I think. It was REALLY nice to get feedback from particpants that they really connected with the workshop idea and subject. I think that alone made all worth while. And it was my goal - I set out to do the best I could on all of them. that alone was the purpose of my going, I made it that way, and I think it paid off. I'm not famous, never will be in that regard, but it doesn't matter. I have the ability, I think, to offer to others something that they can understand and use to enrich themselves. That felt really really nice.
the mind-spirit-body connection seems weak there for me. I am not yet fully sure of how I see this, but it is there in a vague form now. For instances...
I did the long gbreathing workshop. It was pretty amazing. And after an hour, I realized a lot of my physical pain was simply gone - realy not there. Coincidence perhaps, but it matters little if the result is the same. I plan to try to master that method!
And I did the Sex Magic session. Revelations happen in interesting ways: "the lower back (chakra, I think she said) is connected to LACK". And yes, I am aware of feeling a lack of something. There is a strong sense of epihany here, but no really solid "WOW" with it.
Ironic - I give a session on asking for what you want,.... and I can't even do it myself. well, maybe not entirely true - I did ask - twice - and both granted. (Wait, the first was being asked, or perhaps "hinted: to, and then affirming, and then asking - once that ice was broken). The second was an outright "I would like..." - I will spare the details.
and then to hear I seemed, or was part of a scene, that was HOT, that I had a nice body - that is very alien turf for me.
But I think it is for many. How to really REALLY REALLY LET GO?
That, I think, is my next personl goal - really let go. I got damn close this time. Pounding, screaming, shouting, pumping, sweating - it was good. But there is more, deeper, more to let out to reveal, to display, to show. Is that what all this is? Public display? Not for all - some hide away.
Seems there is a kind of fuzzy division there: on ethe one hand there are those who clamber in to play, seriously, and enjoy that aspect of it. Some take that seriously, maybe too seriously. The other fuzzy side are those who come for no more reason than to indulge in the act of wanton fucking. That's the group I can't really seem to connect wiht much. Oh I don't begrudge it, but I am strangely aware of how that seems to set up a kind of odd social boundary layer that is at times, forgive the pun, impenetrable. And it isnot cocks that penetrate here, but social connectivity. What ever tissue connects, whatever lube facilitates, that absence measn at least to me, you're either an innie or an outtie.
Of course, I've ALWAYS seen myself as an outtie, so that may well be my own long jaded attitude, the disbelief that this happens at all, speaking. As a Qualified Social Outcast (QSO) or so I have told myself so long, it makes sense that those who do or have are something other than those who do or have - I have to try and "other" them to prevent me from falling into the dark abyss. But fall I do.
Not as deep this time, but still... I had many moments of feeling like that same reject. That one who, no matter WHAT I mightsay or do, "faggeddaboutit" would be the reply to "I'd love to have some hot and heavy play"/.
Is all this really nothing more than "be like me"? Is it maybe a variant of "please pay attention to me because I am lonely"? Part of it, yes, but there ismore.
and part of that more is, I think, that absence of awareness around the whole mind-body-spirit connection I feel is SO important here. I liked the sessions that lloked to this connection, developed, allowed it. I enjoyed the cerebral as much, maybe in some ways more, than the play or other events. I certainyl gave myself over to the experience. I felt serious lust after some male bodies, certain energy flow for some female bodies. I recognized that even looking past my own self-reflection that holds me as villain, I rreally AM an amateur here, and that despite my seeing a few others (well, certainly 1 in particular) as a figure of both strong mind-body-spirit AND as a total hottie with whom I would have gladly begged for the chance to play seriously, that individual is simply leagues beyond my newbie-ness, and I think that what happens is that I characterize me as that useless newbie junk, and then place the other in an impossibly far away position, so I can AVOID the crush of "no" or even "later?".
I never got either wish. One I did not really expect. BUt it was hard not to even get a shot at the other, little more than "she is shy and needs to get to know people first." I'm what, chopped liver? I don't need that too? (Ok, part of that is likely to be the whole male thing as dominant de,anding assholes that we can be so much of the time, We do the raping, usually, after all, eh?) Oh well. I don't know how to cope with that part though. Do I rationalize it away? Do I simply say "Eh, no biggie, maybe next year". Do I return next year to find that spark of self confidence that lets me really feel, inside, that I am the person that can be desirable and, gasp, ASK??? Odd - as it appears that scant evidence demonstrates some measure of my being desirable. Why does that even MATTER?
I did manage to flaunt, comfortably, that female energy in me. And flow it did - at times overwhelming me in the raw energy. And even then, I was able to really feel the corresponding male energy flow - they run together, not much doubt there. And I do enjoy it.
and I take that home, a little, and can lightly flaunt that at work - no notices and gives fuck anyway. But less - a lot less - at home. Is that the sticking point? Do I "lack" such that all home interactions are flawed due to my feeling so unnoticed, unappreciated, unwanted? I do not know, really.
Enough for the moment. The growth is good.
NExt year: movement, dance. raw male energy on public display, willing female energy on public display and, maybe, ASKing. And fireplay and wax, for sure.