Exercise
8

Boundaries & Edges

Discover new bodily vocabulary via an exploration of boundaries.  

Informed by the constraints placed upon society due to the ongoing pandemic, this exercise invites us to explore bound and restraint situations. How might we circumvent or navigate these constraints and circumstances? How do we continue to take risks while being mindful of the wellbeing of others and ourselves? 

Place yourself in a recalled or imagined difficult situation. What does it look like and feel like in the body? 

Try to trace this embodied experience. How do you move through these challenges?

Use these words and phrases as creative prompts

Taking something to the edge

Play with the edges of ourselves

Restraint 

Bound situations

Circumventing

Navigating

Tentative square
Tentative feet
Stepping out into the Unknown (circles)
Skip-hop (circle)
A-void-dance
A punctuation of ending
Standing Cradle
Walking Cradle
Heart Reach (longing heart)
Abhaya Mudra
Resting on the horizon (30 sec)
Circling hands
Brushstrokes
Sisyphus (moving forward, moving back)
Exhaustive Shields
A-void-dance
Struggle-release
Punctuation of an ending
Starfish (Stationary instead of open vulnerability/close safety)
Foetus Position (Comfort/Womb)
Reclining (breastfeeding)
Submission (prostration)
Traveller’s stop
Hello/goodbye (beginning and endings of relationship)
Backwalk