Invoking Imagery – 2

IMAGE DEFINED

1. the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively

2. pictorial images, as in works of art.

3. mental images especially those produced by the action of imagination.

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Imagery can invoke a feeling, inspire writing, movement, and choice of colors/shapes.

Let’s talk about the power of imagery…

Invoke thought
Invoke behavior
Invoke an impulse
Invoke creativity
Invoke emotion

Shape a community
Shape an agenda
Shape design (architecture, landscape)
Shape an empire
Shape motions

Motivate change
Motivate exploration
Motivate lifestyle

Imagery Master Young Uses in Teaching

Posture

As if being hung by a string from above
A bubble going up the torso to top of head out toward the universe
Wearing the Moon on the Head
Top part of the body is light and open, the bottom is full and weighted
Inner smile
The chest cavity is liked to a bell
Sitting on your legs
Threading the nine holes in the pearl LINK
Like an egg standing on-end
Like a 5 pointed star
Inside is open the muscle relax down
Let your tea leaves sink

In Motion

Waist is like an axle
Like the rising waves of a calm sea
Sawing wood / two person saw
Knot between the pearls
Movements stem from the feet, travel through the legs, controlled by the waist and emerge into the posture
Winding and unwinding