M.O.L.E. onboarding meditations
Dramaturgy:
1. Explanation of the exercises which will take place in the next hour or so:
During the next hour and half we will be exploring the possibilities of
reconnecting to our own sensorial consciousness. We will be getting in touch with personal stories and pasts as well as getting closer to our personal curiosities concerning the environment through meditation and play.
You can see various objects laying in front of you, those are elements which we will be using in game called “That which waters the curiosity”. What is this game? It is a series of small mind exercises. These exercises are built from narrated meditation, collective “sounding” – meditative playing on wine glasses filled with water from the aquarium, individual writing exercise and collective conversation.
Now, I would like to explain you the rules, or rather a set of hints, of this
particular game. Try to approach the time of play as something that is there for you to learn from, time when you can experiment and explore the way you are with yourself and others. Have an open mind, do not judge yourself nor others. YOU SHOULD STAY TRUE TO YOURSELF; ANYTHING GOES AS FAR AS YOU ARE HONEST WITH YOURSELF and as far as it serves to your exploration.
At this moment I would like to share with you a little bit about the objects you see in front of yourself, so we could get familiar with them. The wine glasses and aquarium are here for us to use during the narrated meditation and “sounding” exercise. During these you should focus on your personal stories with a specific environment. We will each go to our own memories and search for them, afterwards we will write about them and share them in a group conversation. This, what you see, is a board which represents imaginative landscape. We will be placing our environments, which will be represented by the stone figures into this landscape. From this we will further stay with the
conversation and search for a suitable LARP researcher archetype for each of you.
If you have any questions, please, feel free to ask them now.
2. Practicing the exercise: “THAT WHICH WATERS THE CURIOSITY”: playing on glasses filled with water – each of the participants should have an empty wine glass which they can fill with water from an aquarium. They can decide by themselves which sound they want to meditate with (the sound is decided by how much they fill their glass with water).
At first we will try to “wake up” together into these exercises. Dr. S.Walker will keep the time. You have precisely 2 rotations of the sand watch to “wake up” – to comemfrom laying down on your back to standing up position. You should not be quicker nor slower then the set time (5 minutes all together). Please, do not stress or panic, it should be an enjoyable curious experience to find out how much in sync we are with our bodies. It is an challenging exercise, however very playful. I personally never managed to master it in given time, but I always find out something new about the relationship with my body. It should be fun and informative. Does anyone have any questions? Good, now let’s begin and after the time is up and we are in a certain position with our bodies, wait for other instructions.
Now, please lets each take a glass. Come to an aquarium and fill it to an extend that feels nicely natural to you. Have in mind that the amount of water you pour in effects the sound with which you will explore (more water equals lower tone). Find a comfortable seat and feel free to start harmonizing by putting your glass on the ground – holding it with one hand and rotating one of your fingers of the other hand
on the edge of the glass. We will stay with this sensation for a while.
Now feel free to slowly find silence again and wait for the next instructions.
Please close your eyes. Let yourself be in this moment. Do not pay attention to your daily struggles, needs, to do lists and so on. Try to let go of what the capitalist system asks from you. What somebody else expects or require. Focus on yourself and your breath. Deep inhalation. Deep exhalation. Try to sense the rhythm of your breaths. What is the tempo that takes place? Is your breath in sync with others? Are
you present? Are you aware of the current moment? Inhale the air into your lungs slowly. Exhale the air out of your lungs slowly. Repeat this sensation.
Pay attention to the rhythm of your heartbeat. Feel how there is a white light coming from your chest reaching upwards. Through your throat, to your mind. The light stays there, somewhere on top and above. Feel this calm white shining void. It feels neutral but suiting. Be there and find a comfortable position for your imagining. Stay in silence for a bit. What environment is close to your hearth? What resonated and
stayed with you? What is specific about this place? Where is it? Why is it this one and not another? What stands out in it there for you? Are you there alone? What other actors/kins/beings are there with you? Be with your place-environment.
Now lets re-focus on your hearth beat. Slowly. Count the beats.
Now lets re-focus on your breaths. Inhales and exhales.
Now feel free to land and when you feel like it open your eyes and wait for further instructions.
Grab a pen/pencil and a paper. Write down what stood out – on what you were focusing the most while imagining. We have two flips of the sand watch for this, please Dr. S. Walker, start our writing period.
Please, put down your pen/pencil/other. We can start our sharing. If you feel like starting, grab your stone figure, place it on the board of imaginative land. Tell us about your environment and the relations you share. Think about where you place your stone figure and what meaning it has for you. It also can be purely intuitive, do
not be afraid to play and explore your instincts. Be true to them and try to embrace what reveals. Take your time and lets enjoy in codependent intrarelational appreciation.