Salam
Saya akan berusaha merangkul kembali masa tahun pertama saya belajar Amerta dengan Mbah prapto. Saya mendapatkan pelajaran bagaimana menyapa itu sangat penting untuk memulai sebuah hubungan. Salam jagad. Menyapa alam adalah upaya kita untuk memulai hubungan yang baik dengan alam semesta. Dengan salam, kita bisa membuktikan bahwa tubuh kita mempunyai tata sopan santun yang patut dihargai oleh alam itu sendiri. Seperti pada arca Buddha di Candi Borobudur saat pose abhaya mudra. Salam kebajikan untuk semua makhluk.
Lalu, bagaimana kita menyapa diri kita sendiri? Ruang tubuh, ruang alam, ruang rumah, ruang emosi, ruang batin, ruang pikiran.
Menyapa, mengamati, melihat secara rinci perlahan-lahan dan terus menerus. Menyapa hal yang penting atau yang tidak penting menurut kita, yang besar atau yang kecil, yang terlihat atau tidak.
Dengan mengamati terus-menerus, kita diharapkan akan mengurangi penyebab ketidakbahagiaan, seperti kebodohan batin, nafsu keinginan.
Kita akan seraya sibuk dengan ketakjuban bentuk, sensasi, sebab akibat, pertemuan, dan lain-lain. Kita akan menyadari sebuah arti keberadaan.
Greeting
I will try to embrace the first time I learned Amerta with Mbah Prapto. I learned how greeting is very important to start a relationship. Greeting the universe, greeting nature, say hi to the universe. It is through our effort to start a good relationship with the universe, with greetings, that we can prove that our bodies have manners that should be appreciated by nature itself. Like the Buddha statue at Borobudur temple, when doing the abhaya mudra pose. Greetings of kindness to all beings.
Then how do we greet ourselves… body space, nature space, home space, emotional space, inner space, mind space.
Greeting, observing, seeing in detail slowly and continuously… greeting things that are important or unimportant according to us, big or small, visible or invisible.
By continuously observing, it is hoped that we will reduce the causes of unhappiness, such as ignorance, lust and desire.
We will be busy with the wonder of forms, sensations, cause and effect, encounters and we will realize a meaning of existence.
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Ayu Wardani is a choreographer, dancer, and Amerta practitioner. She graduated from ISI (Dance Department) in 2009. She studied olahrasa (the exercise of feeling) independently with Elly D. Luthan, Mandala movement with Fajar Satriadi, contemporary techniques and yoga with Boby Ari Setiawan, and Joged Amerta with Mbah Prapto. She studied intensively with Mbah Prapto for about five years. With his blessing and her parents’ support, she has strived to continue his vision and legacy by founding Pantjali, a space for learning and practice that integrates dance, Amerta, and martial arts from Bapak Andreas into a method known as Sardiwa.
