September 22, End of the full second week

This week was full of interesting experiences. So, lets get started!

Monday-
Feldenkrais- First frustration. I also learned that this class will be hard to explain, so I'll try my best. It was basically how to roll up from laying down. I know, it sounds weird.

We started with learning how our joints work in our hips, pelvis, knees. What happens if you twist a certain way. So laying down on your back, we brought our knees up, and brought them to standing. Then we rolled the knees to the side, learning how the joints work, and how it turns our body to the side. Then, we learned how to reverse that, and to bring ourselves naturally up to sitting.

I know, its hard to explain.

And, I didn't really get it at first. And by first, I mean for like 45 min. Quite frustrating. But, I think by the last try I finally got it. But that didn't help my frustrated mood.

Acting- Told life stories. Tears were had.

Tuesday-
Yoga- Stretches were done, Tears were had.

Voice- Learning more how the voice works, the "sigh of relief" turned into a sound...again, hard to explain.

Expel your breath, hold it (Don't hold it enough to pass out) and feel that "need" to breathe in. Take it, and when your full of breathe, exhale and repeat. That 'need' to breath is called a "pang".

Now, instead of breathing out normally, think of doing a sigh of relief, and exhale on a "fff". You should think of doing the sigh of relief during the "pang" moment. It shouldn't be a push, just a simple sigh of relief.

Turn then the sigh, into a verbal "haaaaaaaaaaaaah". Then with verbal instruction we turned it into a "huh huh"  (Which, again, im doing a quick runthrough of what we did, there are tons of instructions that I am not saying, because it would take forever to type out)

Improv
...we improved. So much stuff.

Wed- 
Fend-Learned more about our arms/ribs. Hard to explain. Again. Basically, lay down on your back. and grab your elbows, in a square like fashion. Then twist. Feel what moves.

Thur-
Yoga- Stretches were done. Tears were had.
Voice- Added some speech to the sigh of relief.
Improv- Lots of stuff again, love this freaking class

Fri-Busy day
Yoga- I THINK I FIGURED OUT DOWNWARD DOG THANK GOD YES

Voice- One on One session, talked about some personal issues about what I think about with voice and why I try so hard. Very interesting.

Seminar- Talked about the Poetics, and the Republic, and about theatrical criticism.

Aerial Class-
Okay, so the MFAs get to do some wonderful stuff, and one example is a 6 week Aerial class. IT IS AWESOME. We learned some Trapeze basics. It was very very taxing though. I went home and was in bed by 9:30. I will try to get some photos of this though.

And thats my week!