Guidelines of Express Yourself (as established by Victoria and the various participants of Express Yourself from workshops through December 2017):

  • Everything suggested, offered or prompted by the facilitator is an invitation and a guidance, not a command or an expectation.
  • No performing!  Be curious and share with yourself and with each other, but if what you are doing begins to feel like performing, stop, sit down, make it smaller, take a breath, decrease the intensity, find gravity.
  • Remember that Breathing IS Movement!
  • Notice the desire to express yourself through verbal communication, resist it, let it go and then allow the desire to express connect into and out of you in a non-verbal way.
  • Notice.  Notice.  Notice:
    • your relationship to your Breath.
    • your places of support.
    • what is happening withIN you
    • what is happening withOUT you withIN your visual awareness
    • your patterns of thought, response and action
    • your curiosity.  your joy.  your reluctance.  your desire.
  • If you experience exhaustion, frustration or demoralizing thoughts, change something.  Change your position.  Move yourself in space.  Find a new body shape.  Adjust the size and/or intensity of your action.  Stop.  Breathe.  Find your support.
  • Be curious.
  • Give yourself permission...move “yes,”  move “no,” move “maybe,” move “not right now.”