Where is Intuition?

Intuition is everywhere. Standing in optimal alignment, sensing the ground forces in the soles of the feet, earth, following the sensations underneath below, receiving and accepting. Allowing receiving from eyes, ears, nose, tongue, bodily sensations, energy arriving from above the above pouring down and paying attention to any thought, following thoughts any gut feeling, what races through the brain, nervous system plus the energy of the other / others: cycles of circling energy through the muscles, physical patterning, skeleton, spine, breath, skin, thought on waves of breath, awareness of all joints, bones, what's impossible; how to make it possible, problem-solving, questioning, answering, calling, responding . . . taking all this into action--even awareness is an action.

Reflection: I'm noticing I access intuition through grounding or connecting to sensation (ie feel my feet on the floor) and simultaneously shifting my attention outwards to the room.

For me, intuition exists in connection; with others, with energy, or with myself. It's a receiving act.

There are different things we mean by "online" I think. Some of my thoughts are about online improvisation with someone else who is also improvising/creating through zoom. Maybe we can see each other or maybe we can't, but we are both free to make connections "intuitively" or not and to follow new movement ideas, within the score. Some of my thoughts are about online "interpreting" choreography, where my "intuition" may be asking the usual kinds of questions of myself--"how long for this action" or "if I change this angle slightly" or "maybe the focus here could be more like this,"--but/and, the choreographer is deciding, perhpas on the basis of what looks best on the screen, or perhpas "intuitively," supposing that something might work differently in "live" perfomance. Some of my thoughts are about teaching, when, I might find it hard to "intuit" what students were understanding, or what the "vibe" of the class was for the students, because they were small figures in flat boxes, or because their "body language" and verbal/audible-to-me communication was different from what I would expect in "real-life."

I believe intuition is a reflective response from what happens in the moment in front of you and within you. Something unconscious, but I'm guessing you can also train to listen to it that it's often said as "gut feeling" or something like animalic response. In online, in my experience, somehow this intuition works differently in the studio space. I think this reflective response/intuitiveness is less active online because of the medium of going though the computer. That gives more of brain work of a process of figuring out rather than sensing.

I think Takako says the same things above more poetically and experientially but these are some thoughts from an academic philosophical reference:

"agents with sufficient experience in a given domain ...arrive at judgments and make decisions on the basis of a cognitive process other than conscious considerations of various options and the weighing of evidence and utilities [and]... appear immediately in consciousness."

in this reference i looked at, intuitions are also defined as

- belief having an origin of which a person is not conscious;

- a disposition to believe something;

- a situation in a which proposition seems true;

- something that pushes a person to believe something is true;

I'm thinking in terms of screen-practice, if I'm getting less information from another human in terms of partial presence, my intuition is going to be based more on my biases and interpretations of past experiences.

when we share the same environment, i'm not only receiving information from the full bodies I am with (online there is a fragmentation of seeing only parts), i am also receiving their unique response to the same environment i am in. in this way i am able to notice differences in our relationship to the environment and this provides a depth of knowledge and understanding in terms of how we are relating to one another and what to do next that will support an equitable and supportive feeling between us.

i feel that all this information feeds into any intuitive responses in the moment of being together and that there is only a partial data-set when i'm online.

at the same time, being together in the same space provides additional information through co-presence vibration, how I feel about being together and not knowing one another, that i often call "anxiety". so without that feeling, perhaps i can tap into my own independent cognitive processes more clearly.

When receiving is a bit different I has to say… it is because more about getting some items from other creators so you need to tune in with the mind that others has! So there is a exchange and intertwine happens. It is a magical moment.