Humming and Breathing

After doing a score in which the focus is on the breathing of the body, creating space with the body, being grounded and uplifted and finally bringing in humming to intensify it. This is my feelings afterwards. My main focus was on the ever continuing motion of breathing, which got deeper and slower the more I focused on it. I was also very strongly drawn to the image of a thread connecting me to the earth and upwards towards the sky, which lengthened my body creating space and providing an inner calm.

Poem...The Old Stoic

The Old Stoic 
Riches I had in high esteem,
And love I laugh to scorn;                            2. sharp, use of focus, speed, flexed wrists 
And lust of fame was but a dream
That vanish'd with the morn:                        4. use of costume, hides face, stillness, child like pose

And if I pray, the only prayer
That moves my lips for me                          3. fluid, reference to mouth
Is, 'leave the heart that now I bear,
And give me liberty!'                                  1. reaching, contract, open, high

Yea, as my swift days near their goal,
'Tis all that I implore:
In life and death a chainless soul,                5. pulled back hips, falling, reaching, strong
With courage to endure.
                            
                                   Emily Bronte (1818-1848)

1-5 comments on my movement from Hannah and Rebecca

Moving from the Organs

Encourage my partners organs to move/work, incorporate this into rolling from the organs instead of the head, can really feel some of the different organs but its also really hard to feel the others due to the bones and muscles being in layers above the organs...protection...one thing I was largely aware about when receiving was my partners WARM hands, it made everything feel more intense and was so relaxing. The experience was peculiar as if my partner was actually rubbing straight on to my organs rather than through the layers of skin and muscle.

Body's Cavity's

So many organs in such a small space, organized in most effective and functional way. In the abdominal Cavity; large intestines, small intestine, kidneys, pancreas, liver, reproductive organs, stomach, bladder...how does it all fit? Jelly-like, hard and squidgey, I look at a liver and can know more about the shape and size of  my own but still can't imagine it being functional. How does it work ? It just does.

Experiential Anatomy

Moving using only the spine, or at least trying to, is difficult...so often do I begin a movement only to realise I am actually leading with a foot instead. To try and improve on this I need to take my time, breathe into the movement and take pauses to observe my body position. I find this hard as I feel awkward in stillness and I want to continue to move so I need to keep reminding myself that it's okay to be still.