Before Sam Blinn and I sat down to discuss the Lucid Body, I was lucky enough to observe the end of class. In their final exercise, the actors stood in a line and took turns walking down the line and improvising a phrase to each person they passed. Sam was projecting her attention so strongly outward, toward her acting partners, that I thought she might fall over. Her focus on each actor walking down the line was unwavering. She laughed freely when something surprising was said and held her energy squarely in the room.
I’d learned in my last interview that it doesn’t do for me to hold the tape recorder – I don’t need to hear myself more. I handed her my phone, she climbed into the chair and sat cross-legged, and after a Lucid Body Class that Fay herself had called “a marathon”, Sam Blinn was kind enough to join me for a cooldown jog through her history with the technique.
I appreciate you doing this.
Yeah, of course!
How did you find Lucid Body?
A friend of mine who had done some private sessions with Fay a few years ago has been telling me for months that I need to do some Lucid Body work. She was like “I think you’d really jive with it, it seems like your type of thing”, and then she got an email about a masterclass that Fay was hosting and she forwarded it to me and was like, “You need to go to this”. I went to the masterclass, Fay and I got along really well, and she let me join Basics.
Has it been as powerful as your friend suggested it might be for you?
Oh yeah. One-hundred percent. I felt like I clicked with it immediately.
Had you read the book before?
No, I hadn’t.
You have it now, though?
I have it now so I’m reading it. I’m about halfway through. I just finished all the chakras.
What was it like for you to be walked through the chakras for the first time?
I was really surprised as to which ones I connected with. I think I had this idea of, “Okay, intellectually, I’m exploded this or imploded whatever” – and then actually physically going through it I was like, “Oh wait I connect with this one more and I have a more difficult time with that one.”
I heard at the end of class that you’re making chakra charts. Where do you feel the most confident? What was the easiest place for you to access in terms of your chakras?
The one that I felt the most connected to was four. Which was like, of course, the heart chakra! It’s one that I felt very connected to both in terms of exploded and imploded. When we were going through all seven of them in this marathon of chakra exploration that was the one I was able to access the easiest.
And is there one that feels like it’s alluding you still?
Yeah, I have a hard time with exploded five.
Okay, so that’d be saying anything that’s on your mind.
Everything, yeah. Anything and everything. Five and seven, I think were the two. It was really interesting, when we were doing seven, the crown, I felt a little disoriented. It was overwhelming in a really good way. I think it’s one I need to explore a bit more.
You just said it now, and I heard Fay use the word “marathon” at the end of class. What did she mean by class number four being a marathon? What’d you do today?
We did a blending exercise today which was really interesting. Fay taught us a movement sequence and we took how we felt through the end of that movement sequence and partnered up with someone. We had to give control to our partners in terms of the movement they were doing and they also gave control to us. It was a blending of our two movements, thoughts, and feelings. We did that with a few different people, and we ended up finding these brief movement sequences with four different partners. It was really something – having these four different experiences back to back to back.
Fantastic. Thank you.
Yeah!