Creative Movement for Mel

1. Range in movement is how far your body can move within your own limits.  Fear, personal image, and ignorance does cause limited range in movement.  Some ways of moving would be how tall you stand, how you walk, and even what part of your body ends up leading.

2. Movement in others looks as if they can be stiff, loose, or just there.  This is seen when observing certain individuals who allow themselves to move rather than be tight all the time.  A lot of the movement I noticed is restricted to the shoulders and the torso.  The arms are a little more free and so are the legs most of the time.  The exercises that freed up the physical systems are the ones where we just walked normally and then gradually started to walk in a neutral position.  This one is also used for inhibiting the movements because of when we get into a different persons type of walk or something, it keeps us restricted.

3. I can move more neutrally so that I may show others how to walk and hopefully they will catch on so that they can have a better type of walk that works for them. If you move your shoulders inward, that cuts off communication for anyone else whereas if you held upright and were open, that would be more of an invitation for conversation.