Awareness Through Movement #290

Standing on one leg with a hop - BALANCE

“All of the weight shifts on to the skeleton,
rather than the muscles helping the standing,
they serve to correct the standing,
they are used for action rather than holding the body in standing.
Standing is done on a skeleton that is balanced
such that all of the efforts pass through the bones”.

Remember I said these lessons were over? That could have been a fib… as we move through the manuals it seems there are a few straggly lessons that were not grouped with the hopping lessons..

Side note, while I was typing that paragraph I picked a cherry off the floor with my toes… which has me feel very accomplished right now.

Or perhaps, it could be that over time, as Moshe observed people in his lessons he noticed what was missing, the presence of which would make a difference.. and so he sprinkled these hopping lessons throughout his teachings.

Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash

Moshe seems to be getting quite specific lately with the directions as though he could see some light in the lessons and he wanted to fine tune some of the movements.

Gold is also sprinkled through this lesson, with nuggets like this:

“The essence of essences is to let the head and neck
be so soft that the entire spine is able to bend to the side
in a graduated way, a bit in each vertebra,
and not all at once in a number of vertebrae.
If a number of vertebrae go as one piece,
these ribs do not breathe,
instead they are held.
This, at a particular moment,
interferes with the head feeling what the legs are doing
and the head lags behind making a correction for standing and you fall.
For it not to be necessary to use the other leg,
have the head floating really finely on the upper vertebrae
so that the smallest movement can be felt in the head if you are about to fall.
Then, if there aren’t any efforts in the elbows,
in the body,
or any other disruptions in the breathing,
there isn’t any problem to balance on one leg before it is too late.”

Here is the lesson, have fun exploring more of your Self and how you move through space :)