How spirit, playful joy and presence let you BE successful
Dec 10, 2010
By Michaela Ellen Kain, BAT
Maren, my
8-year-old niece takes great delight in doing artistic gymnastics. Two years
ago she joined the local gymnastics club in her hometown Salzburg and started
doing gymnastics once a week. Last year she was asked to join the Austrian
All-State first team and took part in a competition for the first time – it
gave her great pleasure and she wanted more...
Her coach
had nominated her for the Austrian championship that took place on the last
October weekend 2010. Accompanied by her Mom, her little brother Raphael, her
grandmas, Cousin Felix and her Aunty she entered the sports hall where crowds
of 6- to 15-year-old girls were already busy on the different apparatus.
Maren appeared
to be really calm but also a bit lost in view of the crowd – she had never been
to such a big event. Her coach made her feel secure and it was fascinating to
watch how our little one changed when she came near one of the apparatus. Already during her warm-up I discovered
something marvellous: Maren was suddenly oblivious of everything around her and
there were merely she and her routine. She was all focus – thank you Maren for
showing me so clearly J.
Having been
supported with BodyTalk from an early age – regular sessions by her Mom and
sometimes me - now seems to bear fruit. The beauty about this is that this
young lady is launching her career with so much delight, enthusiasm and ease.
We are all firmly convinced that she is embarking on a high quality career.
Her routines, so she says, run so smoothly,
like "a walk in the park"....as for my part, I find that fascinating. Clearly
there is much commitment and training involved but never drudgery, physical or
emotional stress.
Two days
before this competition, Maren had asked me for a session, she told her mother
about a dream she had had. In this dream she managed the most difficult part of
her routine on the balance beam easily and this scene appeared again and
again....MS workshop?
In
short...she won the Austrian championship in her age group and very humbly
received her medal. After the award ceremony Maren said that she was already
thinking about her next task. What could that possibly be?
"Tomorrow I would like to play with my
dollhouse-store – please get it for me from the cellar!" she asked her parents
when they arrived back home.