Carenza is a term we use in Kali to describe solo practice. Sometimes involving intense visualization, sometimes a way to express creativity, it is one of the things I love, but have not done since William’s passing. From the Italian, meaning absence, and the Latin, a lacking, being without, or separated from, what we call Carenza is also called Sayaw in the Sayoc and Atienza Kali systems. Sayaw means dance. I haven’t brought myself to dance until this past Sunday, William’s 18th birthday. My feet were heavy, but not as heavy as my heart. But for William, in both tribute and celebration, I did rejoin the dance.
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