WHEN TOUCH BECOMES FLUID? Phase 4 of the research EMBODIED FLOW IN MOTION

Last Tuesday three girls, lovely somatic researchers explored the movement and fluidity blended with touch and the breath. It was really lovely to see how the exploration is going. In the beginning it was from some reason difficult to tune in and really become intimate with the body parts, environment around us and the objects, but slowly the researchers found their own way how to feel comfortable with themselves and the objects, and how to work again on inner connectivity and outer expressivity and try to achieve a lively interplay between us, others on the zoom, body, its limbs and friendly and warm witnesses in their space, such as dog, cat, or other person. This class was about embodied listening through movement and touch, calming the nervous system and working on neutrality (seeing, understanding, waiting, breathing, being in silence).  On this class we were exploring also the details of touch, how to stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system, how to dance from the body limbs (from the liver or the navel), how to apply Laban's weight factor which is related to WHAT of movement sensation, changes in quality of the body weight, how to play with the light and strong hand, with the weak and heavy body, how we finding despite lightness of weakness generosity in our movement, finding freedom in balance and how we can be intimate without proximity. Weight element in FLUID TOUCH is about sensing, intention, feeling own weight, relationship to earth/gravity, me, myself, physicality... We ended the session with instant relaxation technique and try to stay in our vigorous but still water shape body and mind and the poem.

LISTEN/by Rupi Kaur

You might have done

the external work

but your mind is starving

for internal attention.