Awareness Through Movement #281

Hopping Basics P1 - BALANCE

Now we switch gear into something a little more… fun.

How can we make this movement just as fluent and beautiful. If you’re anything like me there was very little grace in my first hops during this lesson, it definitely wasn’t fun… until it was!

Some Moshe gems from this lesson:

“This demands a great deal of quiet attention
because the habit of life
is not so easily seen”.

“This demands a great deal of quiet attention
because the habit of life
is not so easily seen”.

“The great majority of people hold the chest like it’s a piece of stone”.
(well, yeah, considering we call it a chest.. this is really no surprise)

“Those who fall hold the breath without knowing it. Those who fall strain the chest like they always did their entire life and didn’t know it. So as to learn it — we do it. Those who continue to fall, instead of doing it slowly and quietly, do not learn anything except straining the muscles and tiring the heart. That is all. Their brain strains also without any need”.

I’m saying it again, because if you’re anything like me, it took at least 500 times before these words really sank in:

“take it slow”,
“breathe”,
“pay attention”, or,
“bring your awareness to”…

the lesson below: