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 Sensing another tennis with Focusing.
Rafael Villeta and Kevin McEvenue

Poem
As players competing at Wimbledon enter the tunnel to Centre Court, surely one of the most famous landmarks in all of sport, they pass under two lines from Rudyard Kipling’s poem, “If”.
        If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster|
And treat those two impostors just the same

BIO: Rafael Villeta

What is most inspiring for my desire to live are the relationships, the connections that occur with those I work and live with, but also with my internal system, especially with the parts of me that need compassion and appreciation to awaken to their own healing. This statement reveals the great influence that Whole Body Focusing has on my present, because of the inquiries that Kevin McEvenue and I have been undertaking over the last few years. We explored what it is about relationships that foster exuberance in life. Internal Family Systems also provides me with a very concrete and practical methodology to assist my clients in their development of these connections that any person needs. During these last fifteen years I have been learning and practicing various disciplines of somatic dance, which is surely what is nurturing my sensitivity and my understanding of the body and movement. As a tennis coach for twenty-eight years I developed my Organic Tennis method  integrating Focusing and somatic dance with the teaching of academic tennis. I define myself as a white male, dyslexic and visually handicapped, Focusing Oriented Therapist passionate about inner and outer connections, a deep enthusiast of movement and creativity as engines of healing processes. More at rafaelvilleta.com

BIO: Kevin McEvenue

I speak of myself as an Alexander teacher and a Focusing Trainer and Coordinator. Whole Body Focusing seems to come together for me in my book called Dancing the Path of the Mystic, written over 30 years ago. Nowadays It seems to be as true as what I envisioned back then, only more deeply experienced and appreciated. Life is and always has been for me a search for meaning in who I am, who I meant to be, and my purpose in life. Whole Body Focusing seems to open a doorway beyond what was expected. It has led to a sense of Heartfelt Connection that enhances the welling on us, as well as a sense of participation in a larger sense of life itself where I feel a part. Connecting with the other I feel a sense of me! I am a  part of, and I am a participant in this unfolding life itself right now. We seem to be part of an expansion of a human consciousness that is essential to our world today. More in wholebodyfocusing.com

References

Organic Tennis.
https://rafaelvilleta.com/en/more-information-about-organic-tennis/

Heartfelt Conversation.
https://wholebodyfocusing.com/heartfelt-connection

POEM
If— by Rudyard Kipling