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Personal Space

What do you need: Safe and quiet space with enough room to stretch out your arms and legs.
What can it help for: Promotes self-awareness, imagination, playfulness, recuperation and increases energy level.
How much time do you need: Up to 15 minutes.
How to do it?
When you are ready, stand in the centre of the free space with your feet shoulder-width apart.
Take a deep breath in and out.
Imagine a space around you extends, as far as you can reach out. 
This space forms a shape of bubble around you.  Its surface can be transparent, flexible, constantly changing or instead a solid and safe cocoon that hides you from the world.
Whatever suits your current needs.
Stretch out your hands and start moving them along the imaginary surfaces of this space, feeling its width, length, and depth. You can include your legs…your spine and core…your
head.
Try out how high you can reach…how wide it can be…how far you can reach in front of you…and behind you…
Stretch the space as big as you can without leaving the starting position.
Now reduce the space to an elbow distance from your body and move in that slightly smaller space…
What is different?
If you want, you can further reduce the space by using the space close to your body. What is now different?
Experiment with the spaces in different sizes, play with stretching and reducing the bubble with your whole body.  
Find, what size is the best for you today and start moving in that space. 
Now imagine that your fingers and, if you wish, your toes are covered with the colour(s) you like.
As you move along the surface of your bubble, paint it with the colour(s) you like.
How would you like to paint it – slowly…with energy…with small or big movements…sharply or smoothly… You can repaint the bubble several times. You can create patterns. 
Take as much time as you like for that.
When you feel ready, stand in the middle of your bubble and breathe in this wonderful environment and feel your personal space around you.
This bubble comes with you in your everyday life, supporting and protecting you when necessary.

Would you like to try some variations? 

● If you wish, you can move in the space where you are, still keeping focussing on your personal space bubble around you. 
● You can shorten the experience by using only one part of the movement experience: just sensing the surface or just painting the surface.
● You can imagine that the inside of your bubble is covered with sounds. When you touch them, the sounds are released and fill the bubble with wonderful music. 
Move and create your own sound environment.


 

Now you can reflect:
● What is different now? You can think about your current physical sensations, feelings, and thoughts.
● What was meaningful for you?
● What did you enjoy the most?
● What about your bubble was important for you? 
● How can this experience support you?
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