The Importance of -ING

My website homepage states: “Hello, I’m Janet and I invite you to explore movement as being in change.” What does this actually mean? What follows may seem like a grammar lesson, AND it has everything to do with movement. When a verb ends in -ING, we say that it is the continuous tense…this means that the action or actions happen a while before completion. So BE-ING is the present (it’s happening now) participle (-ING) of the verb ‘to be’. To be is to exist, to occur, to have characteristics of. When I lead movement sessions, I almost always use the present participle [inhaling, exhaling, leading, spiralling, allowing, trusting…..] as the language keeps us in the process of moving in the present moment! Movement is not something we do…and then are done with it…; movement is being in change. To me this is the most clear way in how I honour my client(s) in our sessions…we are [to be] here now [ing], existing, learning, growing, exploring. This allows me, you, us to be in process: we don’t have to ‘get it right’, ‘do xyz’. Instead I too am discovering your personal encountering of yourself in safe, new ways.

This is my passion: to be processing with you in mutual discovering of our changing selves in moving. This is the pathway of repatterning: present, continuous, moving, non-judging, observing, supporting, exploring—being in change.