1. What are the easy-to-remember ingredients of your loop? (this could be movements/positions/actions/images)
- Staggered seat
- Back
- stomach
2. Describe your process. How did you choose the parts? How was your experience leading up to filming this? What did you need to do to get in the right state of body/mind/spirit to Flow?
- I chose these 3 positions as they are simple. I taught the loop to my mom & brother who are completely new to this kind of movement so wanted to keep it really simple & easy to help them find a bit more fluidity.
- I also find myself using the staggered seat most commonly, it’s kind of my default. I am working to be more creative on how I start a loop.
- Before filming this I was honestly quite tired, it was the end of the day, I almost didn’t record & was going to do it again in the morning. Instead, I decided to record myself tired.I was thinking maybe my sleepiness would help get me out of my head & trying to ‘do it right’.
3. What felt good ( or provided a healthy challenge) in this loop video experience?
- What felt good to me was the entering & exiting of the floor. It feels really yummy to my body to do the sandwich that you taught us, it makes it feel so easy, fluid to go from sitting to lying on the ground & the reverse.
- The healthy challenge is my loop was just to one side. My challenge is making the movement a seamless wave as I change directions.
4. If there is ONE thing that you would do differently, what is it?
- I would have given myself more time.
- In the future, I would play with inviting in more spinal movement. After going through the loop a few times, I would play with having my spine lead the movement.
5. What did you learn from this experience that you will apply to your own training or teaching?
- When teaching the loop to my mom & brother, I learned I have a lot of work to do with cueing. I think spending more time before teaching on having a more clear idea/ theme would be supportive to help me give more concise, simple cues to help someone find the movement in their body.
- I mentioned earlier that I was really tired when I started filming. After the very short loop, I was pleasantly surprised to find I was more present & awake, not necessarily alert, but more capable of doing tasks that required cognitive function. That was curious to me. Moving in this way feels really accessible, it doesn’t require much effort, & could be a nice thing to play with adding into transitions of my work day. I’ve also been playing with starting my training &/or ending my training with a loop (either as my warm up or cool down).