5/1/23
Small group - 3 people + me is 4 total. Sky Spallone, Christina Germaine, Lea DiMarchi. First night in Houghton Hall.
Started with space relations. moving stretch. presence actions.
Then personal warm-up space. Then polarity (mine / not mine)
Then introduce jogging. Then did we do a large group ritual of mine / not mine?
Then did passes - with upper/middle/lower and frontal/lateral/vertical - specifically doing cliche movements and new movements emphasis.
Then we did mix of mine/not mine - then enter the realm or space of the divine. facing north.
There was a full moon coming up in Taurus opposite scorpio ? brought up a polarity of mine vs yours and also form and transformation I guess. I read an article. ha.
What did I experience?
In the realm of the divine - red wood trees (california for me, childhood visits and exposure to those trees) then grass in central park... rolling in the grass, lots of contact with the dirt and earth itself.
In the mine/not mine - I was darth vader. message: star wars is not mine. on the mine side, I saw jelly beavers of the film idea.
on the mine section group polarity - japannesse samurai swordsman as deeply mine actually - not from this body but from past lives. Christian praise hands, raising praise hands - not mine. monster/beast crawling on the floor or near it - Beast as mine. GMB and movement culture movements as 'halfway between mine and not mine'.
Small group - 3 people + me is 4 total. Sky Spallone, Christina Germaine, Lea DiMarchi. First night in Houghton Hall.
Started with space relations. moving stretch. presence actions.
Then personal warm-up space. Then polarity (mine / not mine)
Then introduce jogging. Then did we do a large group ritual of mine / not mine?
Then did passes - with upper/middle/lower and frontal/lateral/vertical - specifically doing cliche movements and new movements emphasis.
Then we did mix of mine/not mine - then enter the realm or space of the divine. facing north.
There was a full moon coming up in Taurus opposite scorpio ? brought up a polarity of mine vs yours and also form and transformation I guess. I read an article. ha.
What did I experience?
In the realm of the divine - red wood trees (california for me, childhood visits and exposure to those trees) then grass in central park... rolling in the grass, lots of contact with the dirt and earth itself.
In the mine/not mine - I was darth vader. message: star wars is not mine. on the mine side, I saw jelly beavers of the film idea.
on the mine section group polarity - japannesse samurai swordsman as deeply mine actually - not from this body but from past lives. Christian praise hands, raising praise hands - not mine. monster/beast crawling on the floor or near it - Beast as mine. GMB and movement culture movements as 'halfway between mine and not mine'.
5/8/23
sequence:
space relations: using moving stretch, presence the back, breath union maybe?
personal warm-up:
personal polarities: judgement/compassion
group foundation source: origin of compassion
jog end then worked with river of impulses and rises
passes west to east: body systems - twice across - skeletal, cardiovascular, respiratory. second time across was body as unit.
then somatic questions w/gradations (this may have come a little earlier) why am I here? where do I come from? where am I going?
final ritual: my soul - transitioning - character soul
notes:
my soul was reaching up for elders for spirits that were ahead of me and above me - but they were dead or passing on. they were beyond. So i started to have to turn and see the people below me that I was supposed to be reaching out to.
the first transition was very much full of "oh no" energy as I went backwards... I didn't know what was coming. I wasn't sure what was on the other side... what character... it was something to do with character of the director or a character from a film idea I'd had. these damn Jelly Beavers... they were these large entities toning white light of compassion on the Ojai valley for some reason... when I returned to transition that toning became like a horn, like an old Viking handheld horn that I held in my hand, and finally I put the horn like a knife into my own heart... that the film was somehow a way to express my own heart or tone a white blanket of compassion on the world the way the Jelly Beaver had.
the "why am I here" question was strongly vocal... touching voice box, and the sound I made was like a vivid scream at the other end of the gradation.
source of compassion was that I put my arm through a column of white light in the middle of the room. I slowly rolled away and gave voice to the energy in some small way... the white light in the column filled my whole body so my body was all white light. then I was toning gently and rolling softly on the floor.
sequence:
space relations: using moving stretch, presence the back, breath union maybe?
personal warm-up:
personal polarities: judgement/compassion
group foundation source: origin of compassion
jog end then worked with river of impulses and rises
passes west to east: body systems - twice across - skeletal, cardiovascular, respiratory. second time across was body as unit.
then somatic questions w/gradations (this may have come a little earlier) why am I here? where do I come from? where am I going?
final ritual: my soul - transitioning - character soul
notes:
my soul was reaching up for elders for spirits that were ahead of me and above me - but they were dead or passing on. they were beyond. So i started to have to turn and see the people below me that I was supposed to be reaching out to.
the first transition was very much full of "oh no" energy as I went backwards... I didn't know what was coming. I wasn't sure what was on the other side... what character... it was something to do with character of the director or a character from a film idea I'd had. these damn Jelly Beavers... they were these large entities toning white light of compassion on the Ojai valley for some reason... when I returned to transition that toning became like a horn, like an old Viking handheld horn that I held in my hand, and finally I put the horn like a knife into my own heart... that the film was somehow a way to express my own heart or tone a white blanket of compassion on the world the way the Jelly Beaver had.
the "why am I here" question was strongly vocal... touching voice box, and the sound I made was like a vivid scream at the other end of the gradation.
source of compassion was that I put my arm through a column of white light in the middle of the room. I slowly rolled away and gave voice to the energy in some small way... the white light in the column filled my whole body so my body was all white light. then I was toning gently and rolling softly on the floor.