February Summary

In this months moving journey there has been several interests and points that have come up for me. 

The first was learning about the homologous, homolateral and contralateral patterns. Doing these within movement patterns gave me an of awareness of my bodies length. These patterns also felt more realistic even though the homolateral pattern in walking feels strange.  Maybe because it involves more of my movement vocabulary today. 

The 3 different levels of witnessing is one of the other interests that i have been working with.

1: Witnessing a person while not moving.

2: Witnessing one or a group while moving myself 

3: Witnessing yourself moving. 

Number the 3 final one is reflective and keeping embodied and aware throughout is an interesting but challenging task. I find this brings questions such as… What am i doing? …. Is what i am seeing the same and what i am doing? …. How do i see myself? (birds eye view) ….. Do i only see me or others?….

These questions are all questions i find my self asking when i am moving. The one i know is always the same is... How do i see myself?.... for this question i always get the same answer and it is usually when i am writing in my journal that i realise it is the same. I always see myself from a birds eye view i find it hard to see myself from closer or within. 

During some of the classes I used free writing in my reflecting to use as stimuli for moving, this is something that i find works for me as i often reflect and free write questions and using questions as a stimuli for moving opens up more. 

The final point to reflect upon on is during a BMC class we moved through all the movement patterns so far. During this there were several patterns that were hard to get into in the time limit we had, however i found the mouthing digestive pattern and the use of the spine easy to find and i enjoyed this the most. My experience of doing these patterns provide images that i can relate to, also the practical aid of chewing the sweet in a previous class stayed with me and i was able to use that to inform my moving.