Awareness Through Movement #312

“… if you place a heavy hand of one hundred kilos behind the ear,
it is impossible to get up at all.
When it comes forward, it helps.
If you place a hand of one kilo in front, it brings you up even before you want to.
Because the arm weighs three or four kilos, it makes a huge difference.”

The way Moshe thinks of the human body gets exposed in these few sentences, yes we work with angles, fronts, backs, ups, downs, sides and moving from different planes, and YES, we also work with the physical weight of our limbs, our torso, head… as well.

This lesson continues with the theme for what I’m calling WEIGHTLESSNESS. Once we familiarise our Selves with the weight we are carrying, then perhaps we can align ourselves to such a degree that the weight disappears through a line that balances and counter acts the heaviness?

Maybe, I don’t know, I made that up… in response to how I experience these lessons.

As a side note, on the subject of spacy-ness… I read (this guy in the youtube clip) Chris Hadfield’s book ‘An Astronaut’s Guide to Life On Earth’, and learned that, as an astronaut he took his guitar on the spacecraft so that he could sing this song for his son - as a bit of a joke. He checked in 24 hours after filming the clip and saw it had accumulated millions of views within 24hours of posting (it’s now at 54,940,012).

Other amusing pieces of information I got from his guide/book (there were many):
“In any new situation,
whether it involves an elevator or a rocket ship,
you will almost certainly be viewed in one of three ways.
As a minus one: actively harmful, someone who creates problems.
Or as a zero: your impact is neutral and doesn't tip the balance one way or the other.
Or you'll be seen as a plus one: someone who actively adds value.
Everyone wants to be a plus one, of course.
But proclaiming your plus-oneness at the outset
almost guarantees you'll be perceived as a minus one,
regardless of the skills you bring to the table or how you actually perform.”

and this hit ‘home’:

“I wasn't lonely.
Loneliness, I think, has very little to do with location.
It's a state of mind.
In the centre of every city are some of the loneliest people in the world.
If anything, because our whole planet was just outside the window,
I felt even more aware of and connected
to the seven billion other people who call it home.”