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FOREST-BODY-CHAIR is a project of RAY (the collaborative team of Gina Siepel and Sara Smith), using wooden chairs as an occasion to explore entwined ecological, embodied, and social questions connected to their construction and use. A three-week workshop version of FOREST-BODY-CHAIR at Mildred’s Lane in July 2021 brought together participant-fellows and guest artists for conversation and experimentation across somatic, greenwood construction, and fieldwork practices. Meditation Ocean was introduced into the session, allowing for additional associations to be made between forests and oceans, as well as contemplation of breath as an environmental process and metaphor. Participants were invited to develop meditation scripts collaboratively or on their own.
Being. Being with no objective other than innate purpose ~Not subscribed from any outside source.
Allow the body to be soft like a sea sponge deep on the ocean floor trust that you are right where you need to be
Soften the chatter of thoughts
Inhale through the nose
exhale through the nose
jump in deeper
Just as the moon pulls the ocean tides
so do the lungs with the breath
I am inhaling
I am exhaling
Notice the Molecules of emotion mixing and brewing at the surface
[...]
You are a multiverse
an ocean of experience
emotion
remembrance
possibility
layers of organic material, dancing within the waves in co-creation
Release the tension within the central nervous system by softening your gaze
I am inhaling through the nose
I am exhaling through the nose
[...]
Allow the breath to echo the sound of the ocean
flowing in the infinite: the here and now
Inhale as much oxygen as you possibly can (hold)
Exhale release out the mouth (ahhh)
How do we see with our wholeness
How the heart creates rhythm,
how the skin breaths without force
how the Atlas vertebrae connects to the skull
Be here now no where now here
[...]
allow your self to explore what is here create ease in the spine within each vertebrae
float, absorb new data here in the now
Observe what is here in the depth of profound wonder
[...]
I am a multiverse
You are a multiverse
We are inhaling and we are exhaling
We are a multiverse
[...]
I am Monique McCrystal
I am Deja Redman
And we are the yoga carriage at replenish
Monique McCrystal and Deja Redman
Harmony (with the whole)