- Opposition of limbs
- Finding diagonals through the centre
- Body in 4 quadrants
- Spiral in our movement
- Mainly in mammals- fish and lizards a little
- Mammals have a different muscular skeletal organisation, so the belly is more easily off the floor
- All senses are fully operational
- Vocal communication- free head and neck
- Eyes and ears fully engaged with the world
- Reaching for objects for a baby encourages motion and vocals into the environment
- Babies turn towards sound, and go backward in space to do so sometimes
For the past few weeks, and the coming weeks until the end of term I am taking part in a movement session with Amy Voris. The main focus is on Authentic Movement. Janet Adler, Joan Chodorow and Mary Stark- Whitehouse are the pioneers of this.
These are the principles we first worked with...
- Working in a Diad (working in pairs)
- Moving from sensing within the body
- Propriosation (tracking the body)
- Sensation
- Emotion
- Imagery
In the next session we focused on these principles....
- Intention of closing eyes and surrender to the possibility of being moved
- Active imagination of movement
- Idea of the unconscious- what we don't yet know about ourselves in with world
- Free association practices
- Moving and being moved
- Notion of witnessing- seeing and being seen
- Experiencing and watching
- Making the unconscious, conscious
These were my observations from moving with these...
- When moving with the idea of witnessing the body I felt un attached from it. Particularly in the legs, because I felt like I was 'watching them' so I felt like it wasn't me moving them.
In the following session we looked at...
- The philosophical approach to witnessing
- Active listening
- The art of witnessing
- Watching things come and go
My main observations were...
- WEIGHT! Giving into weight and the idea of a gravitational pull to the floor
