LOOP- MERCY ARIAS
NAME OF THE LOOP: HAPPY LEGS
OBJECTIVE: INVESTIGATE THE POWER OF THE LEGS TO CHANGE FRONTS AND MOVE THROUGH THE SPACE (without walking ;) )
1. Easy to remember ingredients: a. Using the imagery of threading the needle, it must be soft and precise, if you are in a rush maybe you will have problems to put the thread in the hole; b. Your hands are to support you, so be kind and gentle as long as you move with them, don’t let them behind; c. After you thread the needle, imagine you are doing embroidery, if you do that too fast or too slow maybe your thread will entangle, so take your time and find the perfect pace to create a beautiful embroidery; d. if you go for the variation of speed offered, just remember to finish every movement, the same way you finish every embroidery stitch before the next, just to avoid a mess.
2. First of all, I decided to focus on legs because in normal life we usually only walk and sit with them, so offer an exploration about all their power is a way to discover the potential of floorwork and to offer a different experience for that people that usually don’t go to the floor so often. I chose the five movements of the loop in order to create different sensations with the legs: threading, sweeping, pushing, extension and sitting in a stag, then I explored how to create a loop with fluidity, during the exploration I found the changing of the front orientation and I found it very useful because is an opportunity to not look the camera or the mirror (if you are in a studio) and to work on proprioception. To find the flow state: Breath slow, move and shake my ass before filming and using music that I like.
3. What felt good was to find possibilities to moving the legs and not depending only on one front to the execution, also it was nice to keep contact all the time with the floor, something interesting for people not used to floorwork.
4. Worrying less about how it looks and more how it feels (is a real thing the pressure of the camera)
5. Slowing Down, I think that is one of the major earnings of this training (and the loop), slow and enjoy and later you can add speed and sparkly movements ;)