In an outdoor place you love – Walk around without a set destination – Allow your senses to absorb what is encountered – Imprint in your flesh, nuances of
textures, colours, sounds, odors, tastes, sense of your body within all
Embody these encounters into mental images
Then close your eyes and reminisce in movement these new sensations – Let them surface one at a time
- How is this precise texture makes your fingers move?
- How is the feeling of the odor makes the skin of your face vibrate?
- How is the strength of the wind pushes up or back on your body (your whole body or a precise part)?
Bring forth in movement the sensations you experienced – Keep your favorite ones and create a short poem in motion of the sensations.
You can keep them minimalistic or move them to the biggest extreme… play with variating the amplitude. Then:
- Write a list of images you just explored
- Write a list of images you experienced in the past (1 week ago, 5 years, when teenager, a kid…)
- Write a list of imaginary images (in quick sand, in a black hole, walking on the moon…)
- Write a list of images found in your favorite novel, poetry, non-fiction book
- If working on a social issue: Write a list of images to connect with the issue (it could be real facts gathered or your own impressions, perceptions of the problem – empathy is putting yourself in the other’s shoes)