1/6/2010 Session

1) Spinal mapping. My partner was JulieAnn and I benefited from being allowed to follow my desires to explore the 3 dimensionality of movement possibilities from the front/back points that JulieAnne touched. Sometimes pushed into the points of contact with her fingers, and sometimes explores radiating undulations from those points. Found a very free, liquidy, serpentine freedom in the jointy column of my torso, and it's connection down through my legs into the earth and up into space.
2) Duos. A creates vacuums---creating spaces by withdrawing the body from them--and partner B gives touch to indicate the vacuums points of origin-->switch
NOTE: In the beginning it can be important to create one vacuum at a time and then stop, reset, and create the next until comfortable with following the rain of one's own intentions.
-->toucher begins filling the space with other parts of her/his body in addition to hands
-->allow weight sharing to enter this process
-->allow spontaneous vacuum/vacuumed switching
3) Round Robin so we could observe how various folks handle this.
A Margaret and Chen-Je
B Asimina and Chen-Je
C Chen-Je and JulieAnn vacumed each other into a ball in which Chen-Je was standing his head in JulieAnn's belly and JulieAnn eas wrapped atop his back with her arms around his buttocks.
D JulieAnn and NiJa had some subtle vacuums with hands. And others resulting in several tender embraces.
E Melissa and Angela
F Melissa and NiJa had an explosion of holding hands while vigorously vacuuming with full bodies that resulted in full velocity revolving swings around the point of contact in the hands.
G Angela and NiJa
H Angela and Margaret

Very little hooking and pulling hapened today. Next week I'd like to take to touch warmup into the full bodied vacuuming more quickly so we can spend some time with all out pulling using various parts as hooks. Then we really play with dynamic shifts and awareness shifts between the gross and the subtle.