These photos are from a performance art piece I helped Keli with a while back and I found them recently and really felt like they encapsulated how I felt during this MIL. We'd talked about bringing in a sound-scape that deliberately went back and forth from a more nuetral and environmental space to a more perscriptive song. The songs chosen did not have lyrics however. That may be something we could play with.
We started with seated meditation and moved into a personal practice and then rather quickly transitioned into the open score.
Tricky. Not quite it for me. We'd really pushed Story as hard as we could for one of the songs. It was a little bit like just stating our obvious frustration with the viewpoint. Bordering on mockery even. A member picked up a book we found in the space and was reading from pages. It was this very prescriptive book on how you should perform without expectations or opinions and all these kind of very impersonal rules. The more neutral sound-scape chosen was crickets... By the end there two of us were laying on our sides and violining our legs while making an O shape with our heads slightly above the head. It got to a point there where I felt the more I let go of Story, the more it clearly presented itself. A lesson there.
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