• Take attendance
• Office location unless I move
• Contact consent check-in
• Shakespeare: PR 2827 – PR 2839

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The idea here is for the students to find their breath

• Have the students lie down on the floor in the effortless rest position
  • Keep eyes open
  • Find something on the ceiling to focus on
  • Book underneath might be helpful
• Have them locate their impulse to breath
  • Put a hand on it
• Have them bring the impulse further down
  • imagery
  • physical cue
  • thinking the breath down
• Give your attention to how your torso is moving
  • Don’t force anything, just observe
• Come to you side, to leaf, to child’s pose, to squat, to hanging down, roll up

Discussion:

• How do you feel now versus how you did before?
• We do this a lot; what’s the point?
• Breath is good for:
  • Being able to do big material
  • Breath is life
  • Breath is the moment
  • Breath is linked to how you feel
• Why is alignment important?
  • alignment is neutral
  • it resets our ability to move just a bit or to the extreme

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• A group/team building exercise.

Elastic Circle

• Join hands to form a ring
  • move apart until only fingers are touching while bodies continue to move as far away as possible
  • after a time, do the opposite and gather together in the middle, trying to occupy as little space as possible
  • this can be combined with a voice exercise
    • when moving apart, vocalize sounds that express desire to touch one another
    • when touching, make sounds expressing a desire to be apart

Knots

• Join hands to form a ring again
• rules:
  • you must not change or loosen grip
  • you must always move slowly, without violence, with a lightness of touch, and in silence
• one person starts to move forward, pulling their neighbours after them, and travels under the hands of the people opposite, as if tying a knot
• then another person does the same
• then another
• then two or three at the same time, over or under
• Once everyone has made all the knots possible and no one can move any more:
  • Everyone must try to get back to their original position

• Variation: everyone must keep their eyes closed
• Variation: talking is allowed
• Variation: each person takes the hand of two different people across from them in order to form the knot

Boal, Augusto. Games for Actors and Non-Actors, New York: Routledge, 1992.  (pp. 67-68)

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1:40 pm
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• A group focus and concentration game.
• Explain that you want people to play games of some sort at the top of class

Go

• The group forms a circle, facing inward
• One person stands in the middle with a ball
• The person in the middle tosses the ball to someone in the circle
• The person in the circle catches the ball and tosses it back to the person in the middle
• This is repeated, with the person in the middle tossing the ball to someone else in the circle.
• Once everyone is comfortable with this action:
  • anyone in the circle may replace the person in the centre by calling “Go.”
  • when “Go.” is called, the person in the centre must immediately switch places with the person who called it
  • whoever in the circle has the ball must still toss it back to the centre of the circle
  • the person who called go must get to the centre and catch the ball before it touches the ground
• work together as a group to establish a rhythm and keep it going
• be alert and ready

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• Give 5 more minutes to prepare work from yesterday
• 10 minutes to present
• 10 minutes to discuss
• 15 minutes to prepare again
• 10 minutes to present second time
• 5 minutes to discuss

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• Hand out Guidelines for Journalling
• Review the content to make sure the students understand
• Leave time for questions

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