Reflecting on this I tend to notice the contralateral pattern all the time, in myself and others around me.
Showing posts with label Movement Studies 3. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Movement Studies 3. Show all posts
Monday, 28 January 2013
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
POOLS OF MOVEMENT - moving between scenes.
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...
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| 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.
Saturday, 8 December 2012
Reflect...
My own practice has developed in terms of where I want to take it, where my research interests are and where I want to go next.
However I am now struggling to see it as anything beyond this. My own practice feels irrelevant and this preconception stops me from seeing other possibilities. The perception extract from "Body and Earth" by Andrea Olsen, has helped me to realise that I limit my ability by my perceptions. I have lots of preconceptions, even though I feel I am open minded. I project my preconceptions onto situations, my mood as well as my interestes - If I am feeling unco-operativeor down then everything I try to learn feels difficult and out of my depth. This means I don't approach it with the right attitude. My fear of failing and being behind is something I am currently struggling to overcome. "Numbing" is something that I normally do to overcome such issues. I must work with or against my preconceptions in order to change them. I won't succeed if I don't try and I struggle to try if I fear I will fail.
On the contary I have realised how in the past term we have re-visited much of what we have learnt in the past 2 years. BMC relates to everything I know about technique. I feel it is another layer/understanding to embody technique, e.g. 3D Self (soft spine, nerves, digestive tract) Floor softening the front and sun warms the back. My body recognises these moving patterns from what I have done before. It is familiar! My reflective practice is where I solidise what my body receives from the information and turns it into head information. I realise the relevance of what we are doing in relation to my prior knowledge and reading.
NAVAL RADIATION
Most important to me as I have related all of my moving to this idea that my 6 limbs come from the center. When I use this image everything else comes into play (like soft spine) automatically. My power/movement always radiates from the center. Bringing all of my cells with me in celular breathing happens too as I move one body part that is connected through the core to every other body part, therefore moving the whole. By shifting through space from the core I take everything with me.
I want to practice more of the YEILD AND PUSH / REACH AND PULL as I don't think I understand enough of this yet to practice it in my own time. I understand it more in my head but my body is not convinced.
Somatic based practice can be used in the education system. These practices can be a way of developing the brain and opening up neurological pathways that are vital in the primary school as a foundation for further education. By sharing this in my teaching I can give children the right tools from their first experiences in education. I wish to specialise in lower primary as this is where these developmental process' need nurturing most in learning to read, understanding the world around them, problem solving and being able to communicate successfully.
However I am now struggling to see it as anything beyond this. My own practice feels irrelevant and this preconception stops me from seeing other possibilities. The perception extract from "Body and Earth" by Andrea Olsen, has helped me to realise that I limit my ability by my perceptions. I have lots of preconceptions, even though I feel I am open minded. I project my preconceptions onto situations, my mood as well as my interestes - If I am feeling unco-operativeor down then everything I try to learn feels difficult and out of my depth. This means I don't approach it with the right attitude. My fear of failing and being behind is something I am currently struggling to overcome. "Numbing" is something that I normally do to overcome such issues. I must work with or against my preconceptions in order to change them. I won't succeed if I don't try and I struggle to try if I fear I will fail.
On the contary I have realised how in the past term we have re-visited much of what we have learnt in the past 2 years. BMC relates to everything I know about technique. I feel it is another layer/understanding to embody technique, e.g. 3D Self (soft spine, nerves, digestive tract) Floor softening the front and sun warms the back. My body recognises these moving patterns from what I have done before. It is familiar! My reflective practice is where I solidise what my body receives from the information and turns it into head information. I realise the relevance of what we are doing in relation to my prior knowledge and reading.
Most important to me as I have related all of my moving to this idea that my 6 limbs come from the center. When I use this image everything else comes into play (like soft spine) automatically. My power/movement always radiates from the center. Bringing all of my cells with me in celular breathing happens too as I move one body part that is connected through the core to every other body part, therefore moving the whole. By shifting through space from the core I take everything with me.
I want to practice more of the YEILD AND PUSH / REACH AND PULL as I don't think I understand enough of this yet to practice it in my own time. I understand it more in my head but my body is not convinced.
Thursday, 6 December 2012
Yeild and Push...
Support before action. Yeilding and softness to support moving. Spreading and pushing like rock.
[youtube.com]
Spinal pattern...
Head to tail relationship. Lateral line senses vibrations. The fish's body is a feeling, knowing entity. Doesnt rely on its head senses.
CSFluid acts as a shock absorber. Fins stabelize and balance the fish initiating from the center. This is moving towards the limbs.
Chinese Dragon...
Really understand the mouthing pattern and how to move from the mouth, head. skull. and body. follows. Like a chinese dragon.
Landscape...
Landscape building... I used the corner of the room including the wall. This is simple yet I haven't tried this before. Is this landscape in the space just a rememberance of this or what is it???
Relfect...
CROSS CLASS...
Moving one body part moves the whole - Contact Improvisation and Naval radiation. Can move without much effort, as the whole body follows an initiation.
Locating our own center...
In order to find your own center you have to nourish it with breath and attention.
Personal growth and wellbeing...
Moving from the center in life gives you connection to everything.
2 STARFISH core to core with 12 limbs in back dances... something we have done a lot but now I have a new understanding of this exercise.
Investigate...
I would like to investigate further the idea of what it means to explore with your body, in connection to a partner in contact improvisation or in connection to the ground in solo work.
Giant play ground of squshing padded floor to fall on / explore.
Center to center...
Center to center contact. Contact improvisation. 2 Starfish moving as one.
Throwing each other around - Knocking partner to begin movement using momentum.
[Youtube.com]
Starfish...
No need for the mouth/breathing/moving. The body is the mind. Embryo eats from the center/ambilical cord/naval. STARFISH - not one part of the starfish is more important than the other.
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