Awareness Through Movement #270

Holding the knee – Continuation CONNECTING THE DOTS

OH BOO, I can’t find the file for tonight’s recording… if it doesn’t show up tomorrow I’ll have to record it again. DAMMIT!!!

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… and so we continue with learning more about the hip joints - if you have not yet read yesterday’s post from Marianne, I recommend reading it… and, if you have already read it, maybe reading it again in preparation for tonight is also a good idea.

There are so many hip replacement operations nowadays, people simply get new parts to continue on their way doing the same movements that caused an operation to have bone removed and a metal replacement inserted.

If you’ve not yet seen how exactly this replacement is done, then perhaps watching it might be enough to get you to a lesson to learn more about ways to nurture these joints.

Back when Moshe was teaching there was hardly a mention of such a procedure, and yet now - who does not know somebody who has had one done??? When he taught this lesson (to me) it sounds like he was concerned about the damage people were causing to these really important joints. If he were alive today it would probably come as no surprise to him that hip replacements are becoming so common all these years later.

In this lesson he says:

“With most people, there is a complete delusion regarding the hip joint. All the joints usually bend in the place where there is a fold in the clothes or a fold in the skin, in the groin. So, there is a sensation that the joint bends in the crook of the knee, the ankles, the wrist, everything. However, the hip joint is located about fifteen centimetres away from the groin. There isn’t any connection with the fold that is seen in the body or in the pants. The joint is located on the side, behind the pelvis. If this is not sensed, you do all the movements such — you contract the muscles as if the leg bends in the groin just like the other joints. In this way you ruin the entire back, the entire joint, and the pelvis. Most people cannot sit in an Indian-sitting cross-legged, these joints are rusted because they do not use them as they should. Until you feel where they are and how, you cannot do differently.”

For me, those statistics showing the number of people opting for these operations are more the shock than watching this video.