Technique: Phrase

Walking rolls, lunges and roll downs

Practicing walking round the room and rolling into lunges, and roll downs, travelling in different ways has progressed since the start of term. At the start, I never had the confidence and felt self conscious to just roll on the floor and roll down infront of people, which sounds silly but I felt intimidated by others potential.
Over the past few weeks in doing this exercise I have opened up loads being able to link lunges, roll downs and rolls into the floor. A sense of it is just not caring about what others think and just focusing on yourself.

Roll downs

I've learnt that there's loads to consider in roll downs, more than you'd actually think. I think, at the start, I was just letting my body do the action instead of really letting go, for example, letting go of my head has been a task for me. In andrea's technique Ive worked on this and I feel that I really let the head go now, but ive also learnt that imagining how your spine moves, vertebrae by vertebrae, helps your body to roll down without tension. Feedback in the past has been that I have to watch my shoulders when I roll back up as I tend to 'miss them out' in a sense that I miss out bringing them into alignment and tend to bring my head straight up, which I've never noticed I did before.

Combing/ Brushing down of the body

To give:

My experience of brushing down initially is it's very relaxing. I've noticed my body doesn't struggle to give weight (although my right is slightly more disobedient). It greatly loosened up my shoulders and opened out my chest area. Alot of clicking was happening, I was really stiff and have been for a while in my back and shoulder area.

To receive:

To give the experience was restricted as Emma had a weak shoulder so I had to leave alot of exercises out, but I did notice she went in and out of giving weight, more on her left for obvious reasons.

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