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Notes by Emilia Swadowska & Defne Erdur
Workshop for Beginners with Defne Erdur – 30.11.2014
We are laying down on the floor and practicing letting go and following our breathing as we scan our body. We are breathing in to feel the boundaries of our skin. Imagining, that we are expanding like balloons.
As the weight sinks in the floor we roll to our side (like water bottle rolling on the floor) and without effort we come to sitting and slowly stand up. Arms are relaxed. We move up and down to lay down, sit, on fours, stand again and again keeping the balloon image – 360 degrees filling our bodies with breath.
As we are moving we are being aware of the balloons around us and we arrange ourselves in the empty spaces. We fill up the space, being aware of the holes in it.
After a while, as we are moving we try to feel the answers of Defne’s questions in our bodies: