This text is part of the special Pleasures notebook
How did we go from children who play so simply and move in an organic and natural way to adults who see movement as this little tiring thing that must be added to our schedule at all costs? This is what the entrepreneur, passionate about training combined with pleasure, wants to understand, Chloé Rochette in Everyone likes to dance.
This “plea to free the movement” thus takes the form of an ode to self-acceptance and listening to one’s needs. “Fundamentally, I think everyone can enjoy moving if people have the opportunity to do it their own way, without putting pressure on themselves and without trying to do it perfectly,” she says up front.
“I was wondering what I wanted to say in my essay and the title was the first thing that came to mind,” confides Chloé Rochette. She also believes that women have this tendency towards perfectionism, to want to do well, which can sometimes prove limiting. “It’s to our credit, but in one area of our life we need to let go,” she adds. It was then that a metaphor for movement occurred to him: “You put someone in a room with the song of their choice, no one to watch. It looks like it’s going for instinct.”
Everyone loves dancing, then, but why do so few people actually do it? Chloé Rochette believes she has the beginnings of an answer. “Often from childhood, we are told that the movement is not for us: there are artists, intellectuals and athletes. » But since everyone has a body, everyone has the right to experience movement in their own way. She is convinced of it.
“For those who have this privilege to move freely, why are we not all able to enjoy it? » asks Chloé Rochette. She continues: “We have built a lifestyle that pushes us to sit for long hours, which means we don’t have space to move. » The wellness industry has colored our minds with solutions in which physical activity must be done as quickly as possible and in the most unpleasant way possible to be effective. However, Chloé Rochette suggests in her book that we review our routines and devote more time to movement.
“Because what feels good is when you have the time to indulge in it. It’s walking to the office, meeting someone, stopping to talk to them, meditating on life…” she suggests. Fact, Everyone loves to dance begins a collective reflection on the state of physical activity in our contemporary societies. “Moving is as fundamental as eating and sleeping. It’s not normal to not have time,” she insists.
A unifying exercise
Chloé Rochette began outlining the avenues she suggests in her essay a dozen years ago, when she founded her company, Le Mouvement HappyFitness. “Even if there were some for whom it was positive, of course, I could see that some of my friends had a difficult relationship with sport. They had the impression that it was intimidating or a chore, didn’t know what to do, didn’t fit in anywhere…” So how can we prove that exercise can be unifying and enjoyable?
Chloé Rochette’s journey then gained momentum. “When I started the podcast Game state with Marie-Philippe Jean, we wanted to move away from the dictatorship of well-being to bring nuance to an area full of absolutism and injunctions, she points out. Movement is human, so it is more complex than that. »And then, she became a mother and things took on a whole new dimension. “When I saw my child learn to move, I noticed the ease with which a person is not afraid to try, to fall. Wow! It’s crazy ! We are all designed to move. »
Finally, Chloé Rochette would especially like people to understand that if we move, we are doing the right thing. “Every movement is important and accumulates. When you dance in your living room for ten minutes, it counts! It increases the heart rate, it feels good, it creates magic,” she enthuses. Go get some fresh air when the sun comes out or run in the park with your children, too. “It’s not something we believe in at first glance, because we wrongly think that the practice of sport must be super structured,” she emphasizes. But if we follow Chloé Rochette’s advice and move just a little to change our point of view, we can quickly realize that movement fits naturally into our lives.
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