This Somatic Act is a participatory making process of the Balloon-Tight Ring for the pelvis/torso.
(Allow 20 minutes. You will need 16 balloons, 1 long tight and a comfortable place to sit ).
To begin you're going to need two tights that are quite long, slightly thick, with a stretch that has a little bit of ´give´ but that also creates a bit of compression. The tight should not be too loose. The balloons also need to be strong and of a high quality.
Start with taking one balloon and blowing it up to about the size of a small grapefruit. The balloons blown up later should all be similar in size.
Next, take the tights and open one of the legs and gather the tight material together to the end as if getting ready to put your foot into it. Open the tight wide and take your blown up balloon and maneuver it into almost the end of the tight where a foot would usually go. Instead of the balloon touching the end of the tight, leave a couple of inches of space between the end of the tight and the balloon. You will use these few inches later to tie your Balloon-Tight Ring together.
Continue to fill the leg with balloons to total eight balloons on one tight leg and eight balloons on the other tight leg.
When putting in additional balloons into the tight leg, make sure that the balloons are touching each other with a really good and strong contact between them so there's no space between balloon one and balloon two, for example. This is important because it affects how it contacts the body later when you wear it.
Now, we will make the tight legs into two rings. Take the tight waist and tie it to the tight foot. Again, make sure that your ring, when tying it, makes a loop that creates a strong contact between balloons and without space.
And then, you can wear it..