Chest Segment (page 99)

4:1 Ask the explorer to lie face down.

4:2 Ask them to sigh out audibly.

4:3 Ask them to keep the neck loose.

4:4 Press down with the heels of your hands on the muscles beside the spine as the explorer breathes out. (Do not push on the kidney area or on the spine itself.) Encourage the explorer to make an open sound as you do this, and to prolong the out-breath.

4:5 Encourage the explorer to kick for a while, banging the front of the legs down alternately, moving them from the hip-joint, keeping the knees straight. (If they panic, bring them into eye contact.)

4:6 Ask the explorer to turn over and lie with the knees up, to keep the chest moving with the breathing, and to put the emphasis on breathing out all the way. Keep encouraging the explorer to let the chest down; to breathe out more than usual, and to pause at the end of each out-breath.

4:7 After one or two minutes, ask the explorer to keep breathing while they wriggle the shoulders up and down, then wriggle the pelvis up and down, then roll the head back and up again, and finally wriggle all over in a random way.

4:8 Stop all movement and ask the explorer to concentrate again on letting the chest down all the way with the out-breath; and to give in to anything that happens. (Warn them not to make anything happen and not to stop anything from happening.) Encourage them to keep breathing out and to "follow through." You may help the chest movement downward by pressing with the heels of your hands on the upper chest with each out-breath.

For Inflated Chest (page 102)

If the chest is stuck in an inflated position, try having the explorer gag; do anger explorations;

4:9 Straddle the explorer and lift the upper body toward you by the hands each time they breathe out, asking them to let the head hang back. Have them breathe out fully.

4:10 Alternatively, ask them to reach up high toward the ceiling, with hands, mouth and eyes on each out-breath, retracting them on the inbreath.

For Deflated Chest (page 104)

4:11 Ask the explorer to stand up and swing the arms; and to keep breathing.

4:12 With the explorer lying on the back, have them breathe into the upper chest, moving the shoulders back on the in-breath, forward on the out-breath. Discontinue if the explorer starts to hyperventilate. If they show signs of anger, encourage the anger exploration.

Diaphragmatic Segment (page 105)

Mobilize the diaphragm through work on gagging.

5:1 Ask the explorer to lie face down; look for "belt" of raised muscle on back. Put pressure on raised muscle belt with knuckles while explorer breathes out.

5:2 With explorer lying on back, massage gently along the line of the lower ribs (if this hurts, stop). Press down gently on upper abdomen with each out-breath.

Abdominal Segment (page 108)

6:1 Press down gently with fingertips along base of diaphragm, just above navel or just inside the hip bones. Span the abdomen at a level just below the navel with your thumb and fingers and press down gently each time the explorer breathes out.

6:2 Try tickling the flanks and along the base of the ribs, while the explorer keeps breathing. (Prearrange a stop signal: "Enough!")

6:3 Make sure the explorer is breathing down into the abdomen before stopping.

Pelvic Segment (page 112)

7:1 Ask the explorer to pull the pelvis back when breathing in, and let it come up and forward while breathing out. (The lower back, behind the waist, should stay down; there is no need to push on the feet).

7:2 Ask the explorer to do the same movements, but with the pelvis hanging several inches above the mat.

7:3 With the pelvis still above the mat, ask the explorer to breathe fully down into the abdomen, and without deliberate pushing, let the breathing move the pelvis if possible. Make sure they fill the abdomen first. They can breathe in from the bottom up, breathe out from the top down.

7:4 Ask the explorer to thump the pelvis up and down on the mat, to bang the buttocks down hard then thrust the pelvis up as high as possible, to keep breathing with the feet firmly planted on the mat and the mouth wide open, letting out a continuous sound.

7:5 Now ask the explorer to roll over onto their stomach. The guide should then press down with the heels of both hands on the upper buttocks, holding hip joints down on the mat while the explorer kicks vigorously up and down, slamming the front of the legs and knees into the mat, keeping the legs straight.

As they kick, remind them to make a loud sound and keep breathing. Ask them to shout out anything that comes to mind.

7:6 (Take a brief break.) Ask the explorer to roll over onto the back, knees up, and breathe easily into the abdomen.

7:7 Ask the explorer to open the knees wide and join the soles of the feet; heels lightly pressing together, balls of the feet together. Encourage a light, constant pressure between the feet. Keep upper body relaxed, back let down into mat (not arched), head falling easily back, neck loose, breathing low in the abdomen, easily, without forcing.

7:8 Have the explorer breathe along in this way for about three to five minutes. Make sure breathing is steady, but not intensified.

7:9 Ask the explorer to raise the knees slowly, and to let the feet roll flat onto the mat but still touching at the sides, knees held at about a 20° angle.

7:10 Encourage the explorer not to stop any trembling or vibration of the legs. (If they become frightened, tell them to stretch their legs straight and push away with their heels.) Encourage them to accept involuntary movements.

7:11 Take a break.

For the Inflated Pelvis (page 119)

8:1 Put one hand under the explorer's back and ask them to push down hard on your hand as they breathe out, then to release the back upward and away from your hand as they breathe in.

8:2 Ask the explorer to bang the pelvis hard on the mat, pushing it upward vigorously in between bangs, making angry sounds.

8:3 Have the explorer turn over on the stomach and pound the genital area against a pillow.

8:4 Reverse this and have them thrust the pelvis upward, hard, toward the ceiling, on each out-breath, making harsh sounds.

For the Deflated Pelvis (page 120)

9:1 As in 8:1, have the explorer breathe against your hand under their back, but emphasize the pulling back of the pelvis as the abdomen fills on the in-breath.

9:2 Pelvic banging, as in 8:2, emphasis on the movement backward in the pelvis.

Pelvic Floor (page 121)

10:1 Ask explorer to concentrate attention on pelvic floor without moving and to describe what they feel.

10:2 Ask them to tighten and hold pelvic floor. Observe abdomen and pelvis for surrounding tension. Communicate what you see. Encourage the explorer to tighten and to let go of pelvic floor without visibly tightening abdomen or buttocks.

10:3 Ask the explorer to breathe out fully and, just before the end of the out-breath, tighten pelvic floor. Hold this a few seconds until the end of the breath, then release it, breathing in.

Continue for several minutes.

For Displacement Problem (page 124)

11:1 Let this happen at first, whether it is into upward or sideways expression, then try to guide movement down into pelvis.

For Problem of Cutting Contact (page 124)

11:2 Have explorer look at you as they breathe out fully, or have them track your finger while moving their knees slowly in and out for three to five minutes.

For Problem of Sexual Advances (page 125)

11:3 Discourage sexual advances during session; rather, let excitation build and become involuntary movement.