This stage directs observation toward the body, its structures and its involuntary functions.
The instructor's verbal guidance directs this self-observation as participants enter into an individual "resting rhythm." There, the impulse to act gives over to a state of heightened listening. In this particularly vigilant state of consciousness spoken information given by the practitioner—touching all of the senses—is perceived within the body in the form of ever more distinct rhythms.
Sounds, colours, tastes, scents, tactile and spatial sensations—and the memories and reveries they provoke—take a distinct rhythmic form according to the personal history of each participant.
An intimate space unique to each person unfolds in which sensorial, imaginary, intellectual and emotional experience converge.