Imaginal musicality #8
Imaginal musicality is a practice that pairs a particular song with a particular kind of movement image, allowing you to find a particular way of being in your body.
Here’s how this works:
Read the invocation below
Take a moment to get the sense that you “got it”
Then don’t go back to reading the text
Set up your chair, and click here to start
Sitting at the edge of a chair with your feet firmly planted on the ground, keep time.
Tap your foot or your hand against your knee.
Close your eyes.
Anchor deep into the ground.
Let your upper body lean in any direction, like a pendulum, as you keep keeping time.
Feel how your weight shifts over the seat of the chair as you do so.
Sometimes the guitar will strike a chord in you.
Your eyes might close tighter. You might make a different face.
Feel how the change in your expression changes the tilt of your head and talks to your neck.
Let it happen again and again, each time the guitar touches a new place inside you.
All the while, easily keeping time, swaying here and there.
Rest in the solid beat.
Meanwhile, let the unexpected colors take you unexpected places.
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