Awareness Through Movement #161

Separating the spaces in between the toes - DIFFERENTIATION

Ever since I saw a yoga teacher lift her toes individually at will I’ve always wanted to be able to do that. At first I thought it was impossible, however now, with lessons like these I sense how to take the ‘im’ out of that word and make it possible. Practice, it takes practice.. at least now I can at least sense each individual toe - we gotta start somewhere right!

Vita, Asanga, this lesson is for you and I think you might like it.

26 bones, 33 joints, many muscles ligaments and tendons

Can you see how far the toes go into the foot? And how far the bone of the heel sits inside the ‘palm’ as well?

It’s an ingenius design… I often think… those sticks that come out of tables and chairs, we call them ‘legs’ and sometimes they have feet too, at the foot of the table. English can be so weird. I feel like I was programmed to believe those words so that I thought of my legs and feet as sticks too. That was until Moshe, (and Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen) really had me investigate and feel their REAL design. I remember thinking I was dumb for not knowing, until I realised what I’d freshly learned was NOT known by many, it’s what prompts me to share these images.

Is it any surprise people walk around with aches and pains.. if the image of the physical self is so distorted that we think of ourselves with legs like tables and chairs???

I recommend treating tonight’s lesson like a scientific experiment - we are all both the scientists AND the matter being studied in the petri dish. Bring your curiosity and be prepared for some surprises in your discoveries.

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