FKA Twigs

The muscles are still so tensed, still working so hard.

But it's maybe, you know, when you're at a different stage in your life, emotionally, physically, like in your age.

I think...

I've just had to learn to work with my body a bit.

Because like I said, my body will kind of do anything.

So I've just had to work with it and honor it.

and make sure that i do things that calm it down from like a nervous system point of view i'm not talking like a warm down or give it a stretch because really that's still trauma even like stretching at the end of a session is still like tearing muscles so i'm more aware of what do i need to do to sometimes calm my vessel down in a way that's not

useful in any way to moving or performance or artistic expression um so yeah I can at the beginning of you sex you are I developed a 11 step movement method called the 11 and um it's movements that I've learned like that I've not like made it up from scratch I've just sort of collated a group of

movements that can go together for different aspects of one's life and then those things also work with the polyvagal nerve and the nervous system to like calm you down um especially i think for people that find it hard to meditate it's really useful useful as well because it's like a physical meditation and also it's a self-contracting system so okay so say for example um this is the one i always use it's called croning so if that you have like a

like screen addiction like technology addiction okay so if I was sitting here with you now having this nice conversation slash therapy and then I was like I really actually just want to go on my phone this is lovely but I really just want to check my phone

then like there's this cue that I could do, which is just like rubbing my hand like this.

And it just reminds me that actually I don't want to look at my phone.

I just want to sit here and talk to you because it's nice.

And then while I'm doing this, you have to think of three things that are in the room.

So you've got really nice candle burning.

And also your sofa's really smushy on my back.

Like it's almost like a memory foam.

So I feel really held on my back.

and then the air is really still.

So I'm thinking of these three things and it's like a little cue to myself and all of a sudden I'm back in my body and I'm not craving the external stimulation of scrolling or whatever.