Breath by DTO

Coaching Notes:

Pre-Teach: No
Focus: Internal and External
Purpose: To warm up or cool down and unite and sense the group in one flow.

First move: Lift Arms 4, Melt 4, Up 4, Walk-4. Wherever you are, just relax and soften. Soften your knees. Soften your belly. Hands on your heart. Just observe the natural flow of your breath. Close your eyes if you wish. Just be here, now, present. Now open your eyes. Listen to the music. We’re going to add a delicious pattern. The rest of this song is one simple flow, Gently lift your arms up slowly (4 counts), Lower and melt down (4 counts), Gently float arms up, Now travel and walk somewhere new. Beautiful! Let’s do it again, Float and dance your arms up, gently melt them down, lift and rise back up, now travel somewhere new.
Now see if you can create different shapes and dance it your way, lifting, melting, float and dance up again, now travel somewhere new.
Fluid, gentle, relaxed, and soft. One movement flows seamlessly into the next.
Infuse your movement with your breath. Make it feel so good for your body.
Can you do it a little differently each time? Explore your range of motion, using your whole body.
Challenge your creativity and explore different ways of rising and melting. See what your range of motion might allow, you don’t know if you don’t try. Maybe you even want to try reaching with the person next to you. Keep moving softly and gently, creating more space in your body. Reach. Beautiful. Trying to do it differently every time.
Infusing with your breath. Dance it your way, add your essence and style. Give yourself permission to make it beautiful, soft, and delicate.
You can use 1 arm or both, doing it a little different each time.
I invite you to start to connect and rise with the people around you, sense that we are all flowing together.
**This is a great opportunity to remind them how it feels to be united and connected all together. Sensing the people around you as we do this move together.
By the end of the song, you can have all the participants closer to the center, feeling and sensing the movement as one.
Let’s do this all together, we rise together, melt together, rise together and go somewhere new. Be aware of the open space to float and melt into. Beautiful, gentle and soft.
At the end of the song, pause OTS. Put your hands back on your heart. Relax and sense your body in this moment.

Transitions:

0:00 Breathe
1:00 Lift Arms 4, Melt 4, Up 4, Walk-4
4:15 Hold on the spot