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
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Stepping out into the Unknown (circles)
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Skip-hop (circle)

A-void-dance

A punctuation of ending

Standing Cradle

Walking Cradle
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Heart Reach (longing heart)

Abhaya Mudra

Resting on the horizon (30 sec)

Circling hands

Brushstrokes
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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)
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Submission (prostration)

Traveller’s stop

Hello/goodbye (beginning and endings of relationship)

Backwalk