“The body scan trains us to observe such sensations with interest and equanimity. But tuning in to these feelings is only a first step. The next step is to name them. Attaching a label to our interoceptive sensations allows us to begin to regulate them; without such attentive self-regulation, we may find our feelings overwhelming, or we may misinterpret their source. Research shows that the simple act of giving a name to what we’re feeling has a profound effect on the nervous system, immediately dialing down the body’s stress response.”

― Annie Murphy Paul, The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain

Below you will find the beginning of creating a kind of curatorial of “naming” certain movement pathways, sensations, and connections I have developed over the years. The modalities were based originally on the awareness and attunement to my body that was caused due to injury. For example: Nerve damage along my left arm, Medial Collateral and Lateral Collateral Ligament damage on my right knee, and an unknown/undiagnosed attack to my nervous system where I was left for a month without feeling from the waist down. This was the origin, but I began to expand upon deconstructing how I move and what were the sensations and impulses that informed my moving, what was the “bodily speaking and thinking” that was happening? When we speak, we may talk about subjects we either interested, know of, or like to engage with or we may provoke or play devils advocate, so I started to ask, what is my body saying when it “speaks” when it moves or dances through either improvisational or structured choreography? What I discovered was specific movement intentions and pathways to introduce a kind of flexible structure to improve performance and the looping of feedback or conversation between our interception(internal dialogue), exteroception( external dialogue) and our propoception(the conversation between the internal and exteneral).