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Awareness Through Movement #391

Tying the upper arms - PRECISION

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Dale Dickins
Feb 26, 2025
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The title makes this lesson sound quite weird,
here Grok provides a very different perspective:

“This lesson is a meditation on existence through movement.
Each step asks:
Who are you in this moment?
How do you connect, divide, soften, or extend?

grounding our connection with the earth.

It’s less about doing and more about BEing
—revealing your self as fluid, relational, and ever-emerging.
Resting punctuates the journey,
allowing you to dwell in what’s been revealed: a deeper awareness of your own presence, shaped by ground, breath, and the interplay of parts.
You’re far more than “just a body”—you’re a way of being in the world,
uncovered through gentle,

curious exploration.”

“…. hugging yourself
—a gesture of self-enclosure,
a return to your own center”.

“… your arms reach outward,
tentatively at first,

then further,
seeking a place where they might meet behind you.
This raises a question of boundaries: where does "you" end,
and how far can you extend into the world?
Alternating your arms and quickening the pace,
means you’re not simply moving
—you’re discovering rhythm, breath, and the expanse of your back as a living space.

Completing the lesson standing rises you into fuller presence,
allowing you to feel how your BEing occupies both height and depth,
grounded yet reaching.”

“hugging yourself again, then moving the back and head in opposite directions—right and left… is a pendulum of being
a rhythm of contradiction,
a discovery of how you can be both here and there,
present yet divided.

Finding the timing, speeding up,
you weave these opposites into harmony,
it’s a dance of self-coordination.

Changing hands reshapes the pattern
—what does this new configuration
say about your familiar ways of holding yourself?”

With that ‘in mind’ prepare your self for an experience far beyond the physical,
as we allow some time to explore our Selves during movement.

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