Phrasing your movement metaphors using your breath score.

 

 

I. Breath Connectivity


Breath Connectivity

Athletes breathing versus diaphragmatic breathing.




Walk around the room (Use directions, levels and focus)

Now connect with your breath ass you walk.

Now move on the inhale and pause on the exhale.

Then, move on the exhale and pause on the exhale.

Combine the inhales and exhales as you move.

Question 1

Write a reflection on your experience with breath and movement.

Comments

  1. Caroline M.September 25, 2021 at 6:01 PM

    Breathing and movement time

    I usually never think about my breathing when I’m moving my bodie, even when I sing, if I’m doing any movement I always stop when I have to breath, today I realized that when you move your body in tune with your breathing you can remove unnecessary tensions to the movement that unintentionally many times we do. I also realized that when I do any movement at the beginning I have a kind of tension, it’s like not letting my body enjoy what it’s doing, there was a moment on the class when we had to move up and down, and at the beginning I felt tense because I wanted to control all my movements and breathings and also because my knee was hurting me but when I started to move my Hans and just let my body go, I began to feel how my body was really beginning to be in tune with my breathing and it allowed me to reach a level of freedom not only in the body, but also in the mind, a feeling of total relax, without tension or stress, I could even forget about the pain I felt in my knee. At the end of the lesson I went out feeling my body and mind relaxed.

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