Exploring Archetypal Gestures (Day 2)

Returning to AG's today was a FANTASTIC experience. To better focus my attention on the tools I incorporated the use of a timer set to 7 minutes for each AG--I like the number 7 and something just felt right about the amount of time.

After a quick review of yesterday's reading from the NMCA handbook, I jumped into exploring Push, Pull, Lift, Smash, and Gather, with a brief veiled exploration of Throw.

The important foundation of BBEEP kept me on track, but I felt the greatest revelations came from Preparation: the visualization of the energy body performing the Grand Gesture.

Before physicalizing any of the gestures I explored today, I stood in a neutral stance, drew my awareness to the energy body filling my surrounding space and visualized it performing the Grand Gesture. I did this visualization 3-5 times for each AG, focusing my intent upon Breath, Body (Energy Body), Extreme Polarity, Effort (100% use of Energy Body), and PASS. After each visualization I did a brief Flyback to identify areas I could double stuff and then enjoyed the visualization once again.

I feel that this Preparation greatly informed my experience in physicalizing each AG and made it easier for me to Flyback and make adjustments to better BBEEP.

I thoroughly enjoyed incorporating the Synonyms and Actionable Phrases in the Appendix section of the handbook.

It was great experimenting with the form of each AG, and I found that varying the way in which I performed the AG identified physical forms that had greater impact for me personally. For instance, in my previous practices I performed Pull much like a person participating in a tug-of-war with a rope, however, this never felt right. In one variation I pulled as if I were grasping energy much like a straight bar and found that my will centers were much more engaged and that it was easier to give over to the AG, allowing it to act upon me.

I intend to work through the other AG's tomorrow in much the same way as I did today, however, after reviewing all of them in the broad manner, I believe spending more time on each individual AG will be of greater benefit. Some of the veiled movements I was exploring with AG's like Pull and Gather were greatly expansive to my physical vocabulary, and I believe more time spent can only mean more discovery.