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The framework of the warm-ups is designed to include a variety of exercises awakening, sensitizing and developing three areas – body movement and awareness, breath and voice. For professionals in the performing arts, actors, singers, clowns, etc., such exercises constitute an essential and recurring element of both their entire training and their daily routines. In the context of a workshop for teachers, all of these areas can also be viewed as potentially relevant. Particularly for non-professionals, the warm-ups serve the equally vital function of helping participants to relax and open up, creating the physical, emotional and mental basis essential to overcoming internal barriers and enabling them to connect to those parts of themselves which will be called on in artistic and imaginative work of this kind.