Improvisation...

Talking through a story and moving. Replaying my weekend is easier than creating a new story and allows movement to flow.

To replay this back and understand why we moved how we did would be beneficial for therapy. Even when saying the story in our heads we have the ability to lie / smudge the truth but our body doesn't lie in this situation as movement happens subconsciously.

Contralateral Pattern...

Reflecting on this I tend to notice the contralateral pattern all the time, in myself and others around me.

Contemplative Dance...

AUTHENTIC MOVEMENT

Active Imagination - free association. The process of something unfolding.

Closing your eyes and moving with an inner impulse. Listening closely to the body and moving and being moved. 

Witnessing. Non judgmental paying attention.

Diad - Working in pairs.

How to create movement to access your body.

Paying attention to 4 different modes of being...

Propreception - Tracking / sensing where your body is in space.

Sensation 

Emotion

Image

POOLS OF MOVEMENT - moving between scenes.

Movement Therapy...

Can't talk about something but can express through movement. Movement comes before speech. Original Language.

BOUNDARIES

Space - Keep it the same, clean, safe

Personal Space - Where to be in relation to the client

Behavior - Physical / verbal (Important for group sessions)

Confidentiality - Group trust

Energy - Don't over or under energize in order to be sympathetic and non influential

Time keeping 

[Therapist does not reveal anything about themselves and does not agree or say "I"]

Spinal Roll...

Im sorry about the gruesomeness of this image but it is the only way I can describe it.

Working with the spine I am thinking of the torso being filled with little balls like the image above. As I move they roll around and over each other changing the overall shape of my body.

Noticing...