August 2020
(photo by Xiaulu Wang)
DYFIT is actively tracking changing COVID-19 safety rules and adapting our offerings—
Many sessions are available online. If you attend an in-person session in a park, we ask everyone to do the following:
Stay at least six feet away from others outside your household.
Cover your mouth and nose with a cloth cover or mask.
Be prepared for public restrooms and water fountains to be closed.
Do not use parks if you have COVID-19 symptoms.
For precautionary contact tracing purposes, we will ask for names and contact information.
If you test positive for COVID-19 within 10 days after participating in an in-person session, please help us trace contacts by emailing info@dyfit.org.
We recommend staying familiar with the Minnesota Department of Health’s evolving advice about how to protect yourself and others from COVID-19. Some DYFIT programs are currently held in Minneapolis parks, and we are following the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board’s guidelines related to COVID-19.
MARCH 2020
We find ourselves. Don’t You Feel it Too?
Dear Beloved Community,
In unfamiliar times and realities, we can draw on the wisdom that has come through our DYFIT practice over the past 12 years. We are a community of practice, and we continue to support one another—to stay in our bodies, to center and connect, to feel the movement of emotions and energies...and dance the moment.
Many of us know our simple, 10-word set of instructions: 1. Love Your Music, 2. Move Honestly, (Fearlessly)
3. Feel What You Feel. Do you also know our often-unspoken fourth instruction? 4. ADAPT. It’s one all of us can call on now in these rapidly changing times. What is your dance of adaptation?
Circumstances force us to adapt and re-think, but we will not stop the work of embodiment and liberating ourselves through creative and radical movement. We invite you to look at our Embodied Practice for Racial Healing page for details about participating. In addition, we encourage you to use all your solo DanceBreak magic and experiment with virtual connectivity tools! For example, do you know you can use the Mideo app to record video and listen to your music at the same time?! Check out our first use of it:
May our dances connect us across distances of all kinds. We take a moment to honor all of the histories at play. We recognize racism, xenophobia, ableism, and colonialism heightening fear responses. We send love and tenderness to the collective traumas that are being reactivated, and to our own fear. We pay tribute to the wisdom the ancestors gathered in times of crisis, and we listen as they whisper to us now. We are lucky to have many modes of long-distance communication available to us: reach out, reach out, reach out! We remember that DYFIT is a community of practice.