An example would be to inhale and raise the arm in front of the body, then exhale and lower it. This give the impression of wiping an imaginary screen. According to Coleman, anyone who uses the poetic gesture is using Marceau's style of mime. Coleman believes that mime, like t'ai chi chuan, is meditation in motion. A mime's basic tools are head, hands and chest.
Corporal mime uses mainly the body and head, pantomime primarily the hands and face.
Melodramatic theater, especially in the 1920s, used lots of hand gestures on the seven chakras as well as movements of those chakras without the use of the hands. Superman bunches his fists at his solar plexus, which indicates strength. Hands placed flat on the small of the back suggest fatigue. It doesn't feel right for you to go. I don't feel safe.