Awareness Through Movement #335

Pushing the hip backward - NOVELTY

WOW, we are almost one year into this project!

We started 02.02.2024 and considering… as we all know, that today is the first day of twenty twenty FIVE.. this novel project begins this second year with a novel lesson that can have a wondrous effect on the whole system - depending on the level of participation applied.

Particularly the self image, be prepared to have it discombobulated..

Maybe read what Moshe has to say (below) and return to this image to get a sense of what we’re in for tonight :)

“And, with many, when they do the movement in the body and spread the lips
— by the end of the movement all of the face and eyes make efforts
as if showing the teeth demands it.
It usually is true that when you show the teeth it is to devour or threaten someone.
Laughing comes from this.
It is the same muscles.
We already heard this more than once.
Darwin worked years on this to prove that laughing is common to all tribes,
and to populations very distant from one another.
They did not learn it. It is something basic.
Actually showing the teeth for devouring becomes laughing if you see that there is not any danger and lower your tension.
It is a smile.
In a zoo, if you approach an animal that recently arrived at the zoo,
any animal who does not know anything
— a monkey, an elephant, a tiger —
if you smile, you might see that the animal gets up and begins to protect himself... begins to bark or growl.
The children step back, not understanding
that the animal does not know what laughing is.
|When you show the teeth, it is for a threat, and the animal immediately mobilises itself for a protective action.
Therefore, if you laugh, the monkeys become annoyed
and run to the other side of the cage.
It is the same thing with the tigers.
slowly so the movement is closer to a smile than to showing the teeth for killing.
Do not deal with the breathing.
Breath by way of the nose.
Pay attention to when air comes in and when it goes out.
Do not push it.
Do not make the breathing long or short.
Pay attention to which direction you begin to show the teeth
— when you go backward or forward?
You might see that most people show the teeth when they go backward,

and not at the moment they go forward.

If after reading this you’re thinking this lesson is a little unusual, you’re right. Moshe was very strong in the realm of novelty, causing people to shift out of tight I-already-know-the-answer boxes and explore the unknown.

The feeling afterwards can be very unusual, it’s a lesson well worth doing...

and… Dale will be delivering the material tonight.