Sublime

Remember what a delight it was when a teacher said: “Let’s go outside today and have class under the big oak tree”? Just moving outside seemed mischievous, didn’t it?

Instead of preparing an outcome, ready yourself for whatever may come. Open your eyes, breathe fully, and attend to just this moment.

For the improviser it is: ready, fire, aim. We begin before there is a plan. What we do moves us forward and gives us more information about how to proceed. The doing itself becomes the teacher and guide.

The experience may be slightly different from practice to practice (and lesson to lesson), but the essence revolves around discovering (or rediscovering) the wisdom of the self.

As improvisers we discover that we don’t need this unrealistic guarantee to begin. The only real failure is not doing anything.