PROCESS OVERVIEW - LOOP -
What are the easy-to-remember ingredients of your loop? (this could be movements/actions/images)
The easy-to-remember ingredients of my loop are:
Face-down dog position
Half straddle seated
Roll over belly to back
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 began to relax my body by rocking from side to side, shifting my weight. Slowly I leaned forward and continued rocking until I placed my hands on the ground and got into the face-down dog position.
To the face-down dog position, I lifted one bent leg and let my weight go on the other side until the foot of the bent leg reached the floor. I found myself sitting on the floor in a half-straddle and continued to follow the dynamics of body rotation that brought me lying with my belly on the floor. Keeping on the rotation I came with my back on the floor and relaxed into this position, then closed to one side and returned to the face-down dog position pointing my feet and hands on the floor.
Then I started over again, lifting the opposite leg and doing the whole process on the other side. I so alternated sides throughout the loop.
I tried to change the rhythm in the first movements and lengthen the breaths in the lying position.
I chose the parts of the loop simply by experimenting with the movements, without a specific path. I started from the floor and then found myself in the face-down dog position, experimented with levers from the floor that could make me change positions or rotation, and it naturally developed.
Before recording the loop, I spent some time on breathing and relaxing my body in order to achieve smooth and light movements.
3. What felt good ( or provided a healthy challenge) in this loop video experience?
As I repeated the loop my back and legs became more and more flexible, my breathing helped my movements, making them more fluid and less stiff.
4. If there is ONE thing that you would do differently, what is it?
I would try to intensify the movements, giving more rhythm. I would try to change speed more strongly between movements.
I would spend a little more time on ground positions and flow state.
5. What did you learn from this experience that you will apply to your own training or teaching?
I definitely learned to use movement and breath more, making them dependent on each other. I learned to create from the movement a "choreography" by letting my body guide me independently of my mind.