Emotional Fitness Dojo

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Emotional Fitness Dojo is the legacy of Burt Lo.

When Burt was alive, Emotional Fitness was a conceptual idea that Burt passionately enjoyed talking about. His life partner, Cara, was a dancer and embodiment artist, who had been searching for how to share the ways in which all of her time spent on a dance floor had taught her how to apply grace and ease to her relationships.

"You need embodied activities to bring this philosophy to form!" Cara would often tell Burt.

Burt's death from a recurrence of liver cancer in January 2020 was Cara's greatest invitation to bring this work to life. At first, this looked like her embodying (& dancing) her core emotions, of grief, rage and fear specifically, as she drove their son (Cee) across 12,000 miles of the USA in order to survive the first year and a half of a global pandemic.

While worldschooling Cee south of the USA border over the past few years, Cara worked with others in addressing their emotional bodies. In the process, she created THE WHEEL OF AUTHENTIC POWER as well as birthed INFINITY DANCE as two cogent ways for sharing this potent work. Her intention is that you too may heal yourself as well as grow from your life experiences ~

no matter what life has thrown at you!

Now, Cara is excited & eager to share these life-affirming tools & embodiment exercises with you!

EMOTIONAL FITNESS DOJO: A FINAL LOVE CHILD

CARA IS A MASTER OF EMBODIMENT

It was through her body, & play, that Cara was first able to connect with others. Even though she had no emotional vocabulary & was fearful of intimacy, Cara yearned to connect deeply with others. Dance & later embodiment became another means through which Cara was able to build & nurture rich, lasting relationships.

Cara's certificates include a BA with Honors in Theatre Arts: Modern Dance from SSU as well as an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts: Writing, Dance & Community Building, from Goddard College. She spent over a decade and a half developing her philosophy - The Metaphor of Movement - while teaching Contact Dance Improv & Authentic Movement across San Diego County, as well as by serving as a vital volunteer within San Diego's Dance Jam!, Dance Church & Ecstatic Dance communities.

BURT EMBODIES WISDOM

"There are very human things that we all have in common as people. The thing that connects us is our human experiences. We are not all going to experience the same things exactly, but we can experience the same emotions & have similar experiences. In doing so, & in describing these to one another, we can discover that we have more in common than not, regardless of our color, shape, size, belief system, ideas, etc."

Burt's sage prescience - in this video that he recorded a year before he was diagnosed with cancer - shines through in offering us, his loved ones, the words of what he most wants us to know in the event of his death.

What would you most want to share if you were to die today?

EMOTIONAL FITNESS DOJO

Co-Create a BURTIFUL World

Burt embodied INTEGRITY, COMPASSION, HUMOR, KINDNESS & UNCONDITIONAL LOVE. Let us redefine our definition of what it means to be BEAUTIFUL with these qualities in our heart mind. Let's embody more self compassion & empathy for others.

Burt would say that: "Emotional Fitness is for people who are looking to expand their emotional vocabulary in order to experience more meaningful, rich and rewarding connections - in all of their relationships." Burt was revered in death due to the generosity of presence & unconditional heart that he gave to others when he was alive.

Burt would also say: "An emotionally un-fit person will be hindered from the breadth of life, because they’ll have limitations and liabilities that will prevent them from both perceiving life clearly and responding to life fully - such as: with anger, violence, resentment, withdrawal, shut down, addictions, shame, guilt, unworthiness, and other emotional pain."

"As important as physical health is to living a vibrant, optimal life, our emotional selves have everything to do with the way we move through the world, with our relationship to ourselves, and to others.

Emotional fitness is developing a person’s emotional self, the part of them that responds to & expresses life through emotions."

--Burt Lo

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