El eje no es estabilidad, es disponibilidad.

The axis is not stability, it’s availability.

If you’ve ever tried to “hold yourself together” in tango, or in life, you might recognise that effort.

Because we’re taught to stabilise. To control. To fix ourselves in place.

But what if the axis was never about that?

That question didn’t come from a book or a theory.

It came from Candela Ramos, and from the way she speaks about the body.

We reached out to her to explore how “the axis” could be a living topic for our next Tango Sensaciones circle.

Our meeting was richer than we expected. It marked the beginning of a dialogue about how our bodies are made for movement, and how the axis is always a conversation in motion.

“Being in your axis is a dialogue with gravity, with the earth. Never rigid and never fixed,” Candela says.

Finding your axis, she underlines, is not necessarily about finding your balance. For Candela, it is about finding a place where your body is fully able to respond.

“That place is not always comfortable. It challenges you; it exposes you. Sometimes it makes you feel as if you are falling.

“Finding this place is not about avoiding the fall. It’s about learning to respond to it…”

With extensive experience as a dancer and a teacher, and a practice rooted in anatomy and biomechanics, Candela Ramos has nourished her research through somatic practices such as Feldenkrais, Body-Mind Centering, Contact Improvisation, and Movement Emergence.

She’ll be with us at our next circle, helping us go deeper into the body’s capacity to organise itself in response to whatever emerges.

I feel deeply touched by her transmission, as it resonates far beyond tango.

A few weeks ago, I learned, rather unexpectedly, that I had to leave my flat. I live in a small town where I’ve built deep connections, and yet I couldn’t find anywhere to stay.

It felt as if the ground was being pulled out from beneath my feet.

As plans fell through and options narrowed, I began to feel like I was falling, unsupported, and slowly losing my sense of belonging.

Then one evening, I followed the impulse to sit by the river. I stayed there for a long while, and at some point, everything became clear again.

A quiet certainty arose: I will find a place here.

And something shifted. My body felt at home, even without a house.

In the days that followed, a strange calm settled in. I no longer felt the need to resist or control what was happening.

I began to trust what my body knew.

I stopped trying to catch myself.

Two days later, someone got in touch to offer me a small annexe in an area I love.

El eje no es estabilidad, es disponibilidad.

With Candela’s transmission, I’m learning that staying in my axis means inhabiting a dynamic place, one that isn’t always comfortable, but where I can trust my body to respond to whatever arises.

In our circle, we’ll share a moment of conversation with her, followed by a guided experience, a taste of what she offers her students.

Saturday, April 25
We’ll meet on Zoom at 5 pm UK time.

I can’t wait to explore this together.

Stay attuned
Jesus Acosta

The body as an open channel

In conversation with Candela Ramos