Hey, i've been a poi spinner for only about 6 months and i've only been using pschedelics for about 3 or 4. One of my favorite things to do is to spin poi during a trip because of the delay of the poi pattern. I don't know many other spinners so don't really have anyone to ask about it but there are occasions where i go into a trance like state with my poi and i pull off moves that i normally cannot to with far more control than normal (according to my friends) During these moment i don't really know what happens to me other than all that exists is me and my poi. and once it stops i get a massive rush of euphoria and my visuals are extreamly powerful. Is anyone able to explain what happens at all?
I go into trance when I dance on Psychedelics sometimes, I've read that it's from a rise in kundalini energy. I feel I'm almost on a 'tether' with a basic dance pattern that I can stray from and explore new moves but then I return to the basic pattern to maintain trance. Seems like Something about the repetitive motion training muscle memory to allow a consistent pattern without thought which allows for new explorations of movement. I'd like to learn poi, I'm pretty adept with glowsticks and glowlights but Poi seems a bit more involved. The only time I tried to do poi was fire poi while drunk on the beach, after I hit myself in the back with it I figured I better chill on the fire poi for the night.
Thats the way it feels to me. Being able to think of where to take it and your body doing it without having to focus. I use it if i have a hard time learning a move where i will train my body to do it and then follow with training my mind. I've never heard of kundalini energy unfortunately. Ill have to look it up if it could be a reason why it happens
When you get more experienced with poi try fire, there's nothin like it. I get lost in a trance by the flames! It's one of my most favorite things to do in life to get away from everything.
Ive had the same trance like state while dancing with a very special person except it felt beyond the normal trance level. They really are one of the most amazing things in the world
I got a pair of stripey socks that are wicked to watch. The stripes really help the optical illusions (isos are super sexy with these). We used to do poi workshops at local schools and to up the fun factor, we made a black light unit that can light up a large drama room - having these in the house and some black light reactive poi is also trippy as fuck. Fire is the best but should only be done sober! You'd think this would be a no brainier but people get dumb. (I had a fire breather tell me about a drunken plume war he had...what a fucking loser. It could have killed him or coma'ed him. Twat)
Its what they call, "being in the zone". Its like you become so in the moment, you become so aware of everything thats happening, your focus becomes so intense, that you forget your other functions and focus solely on the poi. This gives your mind a window, a space, where you can more clearly decide on your moves, and have more room to change them up, or make them special. And yea it probably has to do with kundalini, the raising of your energy to a certain point where your mind/body start working on a higher level. Your mind speeds up and time slows down, you can now better calculate your moves. Also as your energy raises, you become intune with the energy around you, and start to move in more of a flow with it. Your poi dance and the dance of the electrons in the matter around you start to become one thing. You start moving in flow with the TAO which becomes an ecstatic state of experience.
Thanks thats cleared up alot of things. Never really thought i could ever become so focused on something Often it feels like the ultimate form of meditaion, i just wanted to know why and maybe how
I spin fire poi tripping, I've been doing it for over 10 years though.. Try getting some flow lights, those are badass. I have 5 different sets of them atm.
