Ballroom dancing, poledance, ashtanga yoga, vinyasa yoga, crossfit, kick-boxing, salsa cubana, Animal Flow, intuitive dance... and that's certainly not the end. Because Paulina, despite her vast experience, still has many years ahead of her. Many years of exploration and experience. She also has such a huge amount of energy that she could give it to all the inhabitants of Wrocław and it would continue to multiply it.

Discipline

As a little girl, she was encouraged to take up ballroom dancing. It quickly turned out that she was good at it. This activity stayed with Paulina for many years and had a significant impact on her and her later choices. 13 years of involvement in this particular activity have largely shaped her.
Dedicating your life to ballroom dancing always involves constantly overcoming yourself, your weaknesses, proving to yourself that you can do more and better. With many hours of training 6 times a week and trips to tournaments on weekends. It involves earning rewards and reaching the next level and moving on to the next class.

Benefits

What dancing gave Paulina was undoubtedly great discipline, focus on the task, goal and result. Constant exercise of the brain and body, which easily began to remember all kinds of choreographies and dance routines. It also gave her the ability to use her body and a sense of rhythm. It enabled her to relate and be part of a community where others had similar values ​​and goals. Plus travel, trips, camps, getting to know Poland and Europe.

Pushing your limits

Taught from an early age that each success can be followed by another, in adulthood she set the pace for herself to achieve the next levels of development. She tested herself how far she could go, how long her body could endure. Because movement accompanied her from an early age in the form of dance, as an adult she entered the world of exploring many other disciplines. She tried her hand at poledance, yoga, crossfit, kickboxing and salsa. Each of these activities opened up new opportunities for her and showed that there was still something she could discover and something she could prove herself at. She no longer had to prove anything to others, she didn't have to take part in competitions, but she began to prove to herself how far she could go with using the strength and flexibility of her body.

Listening to the body

Ashtanga yoga was the next step on the path of development. Asanas, asana systems, she was able to do a lot and with great persistence. Often, despite the physical pain, which was not soreness, but signals from the body saying, even screaming - I've had enough! However, Paulina acted as if in a trance, in a frenzy, thinking that even a little more, a little harder... She wanted to push even further, because maybe this was still the limit she could push. And so she continued until she tore a ligament in her chest while practicing ashtanga. Paulina remembers this pain well, but at the time she was in such a frenzy and fixation that it took her a while to realize that something was wrong. 
It was a breakthrough moment.

Failure

Is it? But that was one of her first thoughts. “Oh no, I couldn't do it. On the other hand... I did it to myself. I pushed myself to do this.”
Because of this, she had to withdraw from many things. She needed time to recover. This gave rise to an analysis of whether she really wants to continue like this, or is she looking for something else? She had to leave behind some forms of movement. She consciously gave up those activities that made her subconscious part want to keep pushing.

Acceptance

She accepted that there was no need to climb further steps and push the limits of her abilities. That you can simply enjoy the activity you are doing and not push yourself harder and harder.
The fact that you do something out of pure pleasure and for pure pleasure is also OK.
A life of dance and constant movement taught Paulina that the best teacher for a given person is herself, her body. If a person takes care of herself, she gives herself permission to say STOP.

“After years of practicing various forms of movement, I allow myself to enter the space of movement in a completely different way. This is neither a strong workout nor a planned practice. It is an experience of emotions that, for various reasons, are not named.”
Now it's time for intuitive dance and somatics!