Awareness Through Movement #242

Turning on a side axis - STANDING

Yes, another standing lesson has been sprinkled in to the mix with many words of wisdom about this position we call ‘standing’. There are different planes from which to move and I suspect Moshe is preparing us to learn more about them…

… maybe.

Or maybe he has something else in store with the treats:

“In addition to this, what is important is that, when looking from the side, you can see a particular place — the place where the spine and vertebrae support the head.
At that place, the shoulder, the head, and the ankle — all are in one straight line.
If they are not like this, the body is not standing.
The skeleton is not standing.
The muscles need to do something.
Only this position is standing and that is what we would like to acquire.
In movements from this standing posture you might see that the body moves with incredible lightness. In addition to lightness, it has a specific quality.
A quality where neither breathing nor the body are necessary to correct the standing the moment weight shifts over the leg. It simply stands.
This is what is important for us to achieve —

that standing
while walking
will always be over one leg.”

Standing while walking??? Who thinks like that!