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Stop Texting! — Miyoko & Eric

To gauge an encounter with a prospective mate, we can now swipe right and left through thousands of profiles. We no longer depend on all of our senses to tell us if we are attracted to someone, or compatible with someone.

When words aren’t delivered in person, we lose the nuances between breaths. We can’t watch how our words land, and to clarify what we mean if misunderstood. We withhold from speaking certain words out of fear, sensitivity, and insecurity. What don’t we say for fear of being too eager?  Too interested? Too easy?  or simply rejected?

Which relationships suffer when we sacrifice the physical to the digital? What possible relationships fail before they even begin?

What if instead, we were to find ourselves once more face-to-face?

Co-created by Miyoko Rifkin & Eric Blood

@askmiyoko & @eric.blood

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Restless— Kelly and Bryan

Can you have an enlightened breakup?

This piece features two lovers meeting at the very end of their story in one sleepless night. The two lovers see-saw back and forth over finding each other and needing to part. The anguish of battle represents the cyclical nature of a relationship at it’s end – only with the participants still entangled with each other.


Over the course of the story, we find that these two lovers may long for one another but only find cold comfort. Only in their ability to let go will they find that paradise is a path that awaits them alone.

Co-created by Kelly Thayer & Bryan Belleza
@acroant & @ivithebatmanivi

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How to Re-Commit— Nate & Dena

You have to re-commit.

After every fight, after every accomplishment.

Acrobats tend to be fierce, and independent. Champions who knock out one goal after the other— used to solo success.

But the transition to partner success— well, that’s a whole new skill set. It’s communication and trust. You can’t just fix it with another pull up.

When two strong, independent partners come together….well, sometimes it doesn’t flow right away.

It’s frustrating as fuck.

When you’re in the middle of a difficult pose, befuddled by miscommunication, and going out of your mind—- You tell the other person how much they mean to you. You remind them that you’re in to win it.

Learning to be positive and committed is a journey that starts with yourself. You commit to what you want, what you want to create, and you put in the work.

Co-created by Nathan Brouwer & Dena Anne Weiner

@bignatebrouwer & @2dancewithme

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So Alive— Siobhan and Cody

When Cody and Siobhan met, she gave him a cold shoulder.

She wouldn’t even talk to him.

When he asked if she wanted to do acro, she just walked off. She wasn’t interested in training some noob at 2am in the morning when it was freezing cold out. So instead she ditched him and her friends and wandered off into the festival to find adventure elsewhere.

The next day she saw him out on the puzzle mats flying someone else and realized she had made a HUGE mistake.

So she ran up and asked him to play with her next.

Once they started playing they didn’t stop even as a twerk shop erupted around them.

It’s okay to make mistakes.

It is okay to fail, to fall, and to snub some random dude who turns out to be the best love of your life. It’s okay as long as you admit you made a mistake.
When we own our mistakes we change our future.

created by Siobhan Shiva & Cody Shellenberger

@siobhanshiva & @acroyogicodi

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Cry Wolf— Alyssa & Charles

So what happens in a relationship when you fall out of love with your partner? When you’ve woven a life together with that person, and you can’t imagine a day without them again…alone, again. Yet something is missing. And you know that….

You start to push them away, slowly, and maybe they notice. maybe they can feel something is different. But they still love you, so they hang on. They put up with your indecision. Your “hot and cold”, your ‘i need you”‘, “I need space”, “i want you”, “I can’t stand you”…

 

How many times will she come back, when you cry wolf?

created by Alyssa Arroyo & Charles Green

@alyssa.yoga.sf & @dieselroar

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We Were in Love— Kiplinn and Toni

You know that feeling when you’re falling in love with someone, and you’re like….“your dreams are so beautiful”. And then it means “our dreams”. “Our dreams are so beautiful.”

And there’s that warm and fuzzy feeling when someone believes in you.

But what happens when those dreams don’t work out?

Can you imagine being with someone when their world is falling apart? How do you be with someone when lost their jobs, broke their leg or the lost someone close to them?

Is it….is it possible to be as attracted to someone in their moment of weakness?

What if you build something— or someone— together…..and you lose that?

How do you experience failure together?

Journey out to fall in.

Love makes haste, heart race, sweet embrace.

These dreams we chase.

And in dreams we lay awake

created by Kipplin Sagmiller and Toni Cannon

@kiplinn & @acrocannon

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Dealing with Frustration— Alana and Colton

Love may infinite— time is not.

Sure, you may want to prioritize your magical partnership and your cuddle..er, training time, but shit’s gonna get in the way.

You have so much to DO…you gotta work (A LOT, if you live in San Francisco), answer your email, call your mother and renew your health insurance. While your partner may want to do, well, YOU.  

This is particularly true for Alana and Colton— who are teachers, trainers, professionals (and partners). They told me they do 32 classes and 12 clients….I think a week. There can be moments that are “challenging” to say the least & disruptions that  can lead to frustration.

But when things get intense sometimes it’s better to not use words, sometimes it’s better to just pause, and dance it out. 

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The Perfect Partnership— Del Sol

When you think about wanting to be in a partnership, do you dream about the fights and compromise, or do you dream of something different?

All the relationship advice out there tells us to work harder, accept imperfection, and stop craving the perfect partner.

But maybe they are out there? Don’t you dream about a partnership modeled after perfection?

Couldn’t out there, exist some sort of union without flaw, without miscommunication, distrust or disharmony?

What’s it like to have a perfect union? To have a partnership that flows with one beat?