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Relay Massage

Depth · what it can open●●○○2 — reflective
Holding · facilitation2 — facilitator
Trust · group readiness★★some
Disclosure · what is sharednone

Half the group stands scattered with eyes closed; the others move among them massaging, relay fashion. Nobody standing may be left alone — whoever is spare goes to someone who is working and takes over from them, and that person moves on to relieve somebody else. After a while the two halves swap.

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
  • The person receiving has their eyes closed and does not know who is working on them or when that changes; that anonymity is the design and needs saying in advance
  • The no-one-left-alone rule is the sheet's own and is what makes the arrangement bearable — it needs someone tracking it, which is why this sits at holding 2

Practical

Time
min
Group
? · large-group
Settings
in-person
Mechanisms
somatic-awareness
Change scope
state · repeatable

Instructions

Where
teatermila.se/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Stafettmassage.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