Semester Two - Week Three

This lesson really pushed me to the edge of comfort zone and I struggled with the strange abstractness of this workshop. 

We started by lying on our backs with our feet on the wall and our legs at a right angle, and had to yield and push ourselves off the wall with force. This I really struggled with, I could never get enough force to push myself that far away from the wall. Tom and Scott, who were next to me, managed to push themselves very far, i'm not entirely sure what they were doing differently to push themselves further or if it was just that they have more strength in their legs.

We then experimented with pulling and twisting people on the floor, this was quite fun although involved trust as you had to trust that the other person had your weight and that they weren't going to let you come to harm. I struggled with this at the beginning as I am very weary of injury after my previous injury. This means that it takes me a little longer to fully commit to giving my weight and trusting my safety with someone else. 

This next part of the workshop was the most odd which involved the yielding and pushing motion we used earlier. We had to yield and push off the floor and let our partner support us either from our ribs, hips or sit bones. This part was extremely odd and embarrassing to participate in. The relevance of the exercise to the performance degree is still something i'm questioning, although has allowed me to trust the peers in my class more.