CT 9/4 Stefan Lenz

st-lenz@online.de
0049 1525 488 28 65

31.09.2022

1. Introduction:
Plato thought of man as four-legged and four-armed, later cut in half, thats why
we search for our « better half » all day long.
Meet with partner back to back. Rub horizontally to warm up back and feel
every single vertebra from between shoulder-blades to pelvis. Up and down
several times.

2. Zipper:
Open, still in contact, from pelvis to shoulder.
Close and feel every vertebra of partner.
Keep contact, even if you leave partner and feel spine prolonged
to zenith and nadir.

3. From straight to round:

Stand in saddle-position, melt from top of head to pelvis, then with two hands
from kidneys to back of knee, coming from straight to round.
Rise again from top of head. Feel « M » inwardly to increase melting.
Embryotic state is part of every initiation process.
See « Rites and Symbols of Initiation » Mircea Eliade.

4. Suzuki-training:
Imagine the power we need to pass the birth-Channel. Lower pelvis 6-8cm.
Stomp on forefoot: flatten, stamp, cut, pile coins.
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFQSBOiyP9o&t=4s

5. Born into bathtub: Flow in space.

6. Towel: Vibrate, different parts of body.

7. Sound and vision: you are attracted, pulled by space.

8. Stop movement - but continue inwardly with full power.

9. Collapse

10. Partner-work:
All five movements as a puppet-master applied to your partner, free play.

11. Master-magician:
All 5 movements applied to whole group.
 short break

12. Working with movement-impulse into space and from space:

Hands cover invisible ball, go from round to straight (parallel hands).
Now let body follow movement - a soft feeling of breathing through the
movement occurs.
Imagine big hands around me who carry my movement - I move passively.
Image even bigger hands moving the whole group.

13. Change view: Create light in space around you from midnight (round hands) to
noon (straight) and so on.

14. Light from earth to heaven through myself (by Edith Peter)
Fingers on solarplexus.
Light streams through soles, legs, torso, divides from brest-bone to collar
bones and shoulders into space.
The inner movement is 20cm ahead of physical movement!
After some seconds go back.

15. Now with words from Novalis:

«  When a spirit dies, it becomes man.
When man dies, he becomes spirit.
Free death of spirit,
free death of human. »
« Wenn ein Geist stirbt, wird er Mensch.
Wenn der Mensch stirbt, wird er Geist.
Freier Tod des Geistes, freier Tod des Menschen.

long break

16. We need more games!

Hat game ( by Keith Johnston): steal hat and allow others to steal yours.
Face: dead pan. Hat smells - away with it.
Now in four qualities: feel going from
point to point, line, surface, whole space.

17. You go out into space, point into space.

You are pointed at by the space.

18. You draw a line on an imaginary surface.

You are the surface and space draws on you.

19. Together with a partner: repeat both exercises.

20. Group-Impro: Same thing with groups of four and whole group.
Impulse from inside - impulse from outside. Quick changes.
21. Archetyps of zodiac as approach to Tschechow´s « Psychological Gesture »
Feel how space points in us, draws on us in each gesture in the 12 signs.

22. Now we add a motive to deepen the feeling for the gesture.
Vita activa, vita contemplative two directions.

23. Now work with text and gesture. Always form gesture, internalise, then let
words surf on feeling which occurs. No « acting »! Speak mellow.

24. Closing
You are a hollow form.
Embrace everything you have created in space and time and bring it to every
cell of your body.
Embrace your artistic genius.

Its a pure pleasure working with you and I am looking forward to continue soon!
Don´t hesitate to practice the signs!
Love and light!
Stefan

Flann O´Brien
Sorry

- Waiter, what was in that glass?

- Arsenic, sir.

- Arsenic. I asked you to bring me absinthe.

- I thought you said arsenic. I beg your pardon, sir.

- Do you realize what you´ve done, you clumsy fool?

I´m dying.

- I am extremely sorry, sir.

- I DISTINCTLY SAID ABSINTHE

- I realize that I owe you an apology, sir. I am extremely sorry.

I. 12 attitudes / walks.

1. ^ fire head ram ARIES

2. _ earth neck&throat plow TAURUS
3. ` air shoulders torn right&left GEMINI
4. a water ribcage sensitive for surr. CANCER
5. b fire heart fills whole space LEO
6. c earth digestic sy. protect live within VIRGO
7. d air pelvis tightrope walk LIBRA
8. e water reprod. organ minimum effort, max.effect SCORPIO
9. f fire tighs soccer forward SAGGITARIUS
10. g earth knees, joints from stone to stone CAPRICORN
11. h air lower arms, legs invite, knowing the need AQUARIUS
12. i water feet and hands infinite space above&below, connected
PISCIS

II. 12 archetypes / motives.

THOUGHT / INTERNAL PROCESS

1. b LEO BLASING ENTHUSIASM

2. c VIRGO REASONABLE RETREAT
3. d LIBRA WEIGH REQUIREMENTS OF THE THOUGHT
4. e SCORPIO THE THOUGHT
5. f SAGGITARIUS THE DECISION
6. g CAPRICORN CONFRONTATION OF THOUGHT WITH WORLD
7. h AQUARIUS MAN IN BALANCE OF THINKING, FEELING AND WILL

DEED / EXTERNAL PROCESS

1. b LEO BLASING ENTHUSIASM

2. a CANCER IMPULSION FOR DEED
3. ` GEMINI ABILITY FOR DEED
4. _ TAURUS THE DEED
5. ^ ARIES INTERNALISE AND LOOK BACK
6. i PISCIS MY DEED HAS BECOME FATE