Part 1b loop

1) Easy to remember ingredients: stand, kneel, roll over, kneel, stand…repeat

2) Process: I knew I wanted to involve standing at some point in my loop because normally I find myself not actually standing on my feet during floor flow; I’m either rolling around or kneeling/sitting/or hands and feet contact rather than just feet. Then I knew I wanted to incorporate some rolling into the loop, and the in-between standing and rolling ended up being kneeling. I also wanted to progress the kneel to stand transition by adding a cartwheel and/or handstand (but ran out of song and ended up with one handstand at the very end). My experience leading up to filming this was a bit energetic, I just finished teaching a private lesson and decided that filming and doing my loop would have helped me release some extra energy. To help me in get into the flow I really focused on finding a song that at that moment was making me want to move. (I skimmed through about 10 or 11 songs to find the right song).

3) What felt good/health challenge: while standing it felt good to reach and wave my arms around. A healthy challenge was to try to play with different speeds (it was fun to use my momentum to roll)

4) ONE thing to do differently: I wish at the very beginning of my loop I spent more time laying on my back and played (wiggled/moved) more rather than rolling right over to my kneel on the other side. This could have been used to demonstrate that it’s ok to hang out in a position to explore the possibilities.

5) Learn from this experience: I learned that in order to be able to progress the movements it is important to know your contact points and to move slowly to feel each contact. It’s also super important to be able to break down the fundamental/primary loop (learn the vocabulary) before creating the loop (sentence).