One of THE MOST Inspirational People in my Life...and she doesn't even know me

It's not hard to see that I have what may be considered a mild obsession with all things Mia Michaels.  I just think that she gets it.  And by "it"' I mean me.

Watching her work is like...well there are no words.  Each season of this show I wait for that moment when I get to watch one of her pieces...and then I let its movements linger in my mind for months.  Because on some level its like she connects with your very soul.  There you sit in your living room, bedroom, or wherever you are watching this master of artistry display movements that are so genius I often wonder if people really get that they are witnessing greatness!

To say that she is gifted is not giving her the credit she deserves.  I know nothing about her really.  I'm not one of those fans that will search for a website to tell me all about her life or what she believes or where she came from or what she's doing next.  I don't want any "real" thing about her to enter my mind because on some level it will humanize this amazing force that is Mia.  I want to keep her as my mind has selected to keep her...a freak of nature that God literally dropped here on Earth to deposit and display how creative God is. 

To see a Mia Michaels piece is to see God, in my opinion.  She just taps into a celestial level of movement.  I have a friend who once commented to me that "Mia has to be or had been a 'believer' because she borders on being 'annointed!'" Well, I don't know if she is or was, but I get why my friend would think that; it's the same reason I believe it to be true.  How can she birth such soul wrenching, mind-blowing, inspirational movement unless she has been "plugged in" to the divine at some point in her life?  Truthfully, I don't care either way because God still manages to use her work to speak to me about something in my life...so yeah, she taps into the divine like a muthaf** lol. (inappropriate profanity alert)

If ever I was asked, "If you had the opportunity to meet a 3 people in person who have changed your life, whom you had never met before, who would you meet?" So easy...

1) Jesus...I mean c'mon could you imagine just meeting JESUS? Only, I would like to meet him at 3 key points in his life...at age 10, at age 20 and right before he started his work around age 30. 

2) Job...the guy from the Bible that had it all...lost it all...and never cursed God. Not once. No matter what was taken away from him.  I'll admit that this one is because of my present situation.  Don't have a cow, I haven't been cursing God or anything like that, but I would just like to get into the head of someone else who suffered so much loss and utter shame and disappointment and talk to him. 

3) The obvious choice, Mia Michaels.  Ok so she's definitely a "character" in the Bible lol.  But I would just love to sit and watch as she creates a piece.  I remember, back when I used to choreograph, there is this silent language you develop within yourself and this conversation you have out loud with your dancers that makes them see, hear and feel what you are trying to get them to do.  They may be technically superior to you but it is your description of the movement that will get them to move.  I'd love to sit and watch her do that.  I bet it would be like watching, I don't know, Picasso paint?

I am in awe of her really.  During this challenging moment in my life where movement has betrayed me and "left" my body, it is her work that reminds me that those movements are out there and are possible.  I don't think I'll ever meet her...and that's ok.  I'll settle for the dances she allows me to see.  So thanks Mia...you have helped this girl...dance again.

Even if its just in my head.

But I will dance again...one day...I know I will :)