First class, limon technique

In our first class back after summer I was apprehensive about how my body would feel.  Whilst I had been dancing during the break I had not been dancing to my full capacity.
The technique which was studied in this class was the Limon technique. This technique concentrates on connecting the breath with the movement and how the breath actually influences the movement. When in class it felt like the movement had to have a sense of weight behind it, allowing me to feel grounded.  I felt that gravity was taking me and making the movement feel natural rather than forced. It was made clear not to get bogged down by the exact steps or counts of the exercises but let your body flow through the movement rather than staying rigid to the counts.
For me to dance this technique felt quite strange as this was my first experience of studying this technique.  It was hard to move away from staying to the counts and just to let my body flow through the movement. My dance training has drilled me to count and when you practice a very different technique and move away from counting it is difficult to achieve. By the end of class and during the final sequence I felt like I was starting to get to grips with it; when I did it felt relaxing and although the sequence was hard work it was freeing and felt lovely to dance.
   I realised within this class and within the Wednesday morning class that to use your breath makes dancing easier, it gives a deeper sense of my body. When learning the Limon technique it was interesting as it allowed me to see how breath gives a different dynamic to the movement, it was interesting to be able to play around with this myself and although the exercise was a set exercise it was interesting to play with the breath when to breath in, how fast to breathe out etc.
   My goals in this techniqe are: to be able to let myself relax; stop thinking about the music and the counts and just let the breath and the movement take me. I know that this will be hard for me to achieve but if I am able to accomplish this it will not only be useful in other classes and techniques such as 'release technique' but it will also be a useful way to choreograph dances and add more dynamics to the movement I have created. To enable me to achieve this goal I need to stop worrying about what people around me might think, I am quite self-conscious when it comes to doing things out of the ordinary for myself. I need to forget about people around me and stop worrying about what people are thinking and just dance for me.