TAYLOR JAMIE FINAL PROJECT REFLECTIONS
1. Describe your process. How did you choose your project? Why did you choose this method?
My primary goal for doing this FFTT is so that it could enhance and fill in the gaps that I felt my own movement method had. And it did, by far. So it made sense to have the Final Project be a mixing of Flow Movement method and Serpent Power method.
Using the very basic Sequence 1 of SP, which is table top based. I decided to see how much more creativity the session attendees would gain from using more FFTT cues?
2.. What felt good ( or provided a healthy challenge) in creating this project?
What felt was that it went well (phew!). That the attendees loved it so much and want to do it again asap. I felt I had much more of a responsibility watching these movements unfold. It was quite intimate, which surprised me. Usually in SP I do the movements at the same time as them, providing and leading the energy of the group by example. So this was very different.
I felt if I had started moving, due to how movement is taught in UK pole studios, then there was a risk that they might just copy me? So, I didn't move with them.
3. What do you think your project offers the viewer/participate? (Tools for accessing a Flow state, more awareness of the floor, etc. )
This was one of the gaps that I think FFTT filled in SP. That now I have a tool to help attendees get the most out of their creativity. They really can make SP there own now. Each movement was uniquely theirs.
4. If there is ONE thing that you would do differently, what is it?
I discovered it was difficult to gage timings: did they want to move on to another cue yet? Or are they bored with this cue? Do they want more time with this movement? They said the timing was great, but it was just guesswork from me.
5. What did you learn from this experience that you will apply to your own training or teaching?
Well, I think FFTT will radically change how I teach level 1 of SP, for the better. I knew there was something missing with SP but didn't know what. A new SP L1 keeps unfolding in my mind, so its not complete yet. I'm happy to experiment with my Serpentines until it is.
It's the freedom of the blueprint of the SP sequences I had no idea how to convey, teach and bring out of people until FFTT.