exercise · all tools
Massage Story
Depth · what it can open●●○○2 — reflective
Holding · facilitation1 — host
Trust · group readiness★★some
Disclosure · what is sharednone
In pairs, one person sits behind the other and draws on their back while the leader tells a story — rain drummed with the fingertips, getting harder; a cat's paws picking their way across with bent knuckles; a fir tree whose branches are pushed aside. The story is the score for the touch.
Hold with care
- Hands-on work between participants: ask for consent explicitly rather than reading participation as agreement, and make stopping easy at any point
- Not neutral across bodies, histories or cultures; offer a role that involves no touching and do not ask why it was taken
Practical
- Time
- — min
- Group
- ?–∞ · pairs
- Settings
- in-person
- Mechanisms
- somatic-awareness, creative-expression
- Change scope
- state · repeatable
Instructions
- Where
- teatermila.se/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Massagesaga.pdf — Teater Mila — Övningar, open
- Availability
- In the source document — the instructions live inside the material linked, on its terms
Source link checked 1 Sep 2026 — reachable
This directory describes and points home; the instructions stay with the people who made them.
Origin
Teater Mila, Luleå — Swedish dramapedagogik
In this directory via Teater Mila — Övningar
status: checked · added 2026-08-31