Awareness Through Movement #400

Side-sitting and the movements of the legs - PRECISION

A lovely lengthening lesson that brings awareness to the large muscles and bones driving the legs… so that the smaller bones can do the intricate work that they’re designed to do. Vita, Asanga I think you’ll like it!

fascia, it’s wrapped around every part of our body, cells, muscles, organs. These lessons lengthen this organism, to keep it supple, flexible and use-full. Click this link to read the article associated with this image

Grok says this lesson provides:

• Heightens body awareness and cultivates proprioception (awareness of body position) and interoception (internal sensing), which can assist with grounding you in the present moment.

• The slow, intentional pace and frequent rests activate the parasympathetic nervous system, promoting relaxation and reducing cortisol levels, this can assist humans reduce stress levels.

• Organizing your body into a single, unified movement and noticing subtle differences requires sustained attention, training the mind to stay engaged and present which improves focus and concentration.

• Exploring asymmetry and discomfort while returning to rest can mirror life’s challenges, fostering patience and adaptability, developing emotional resilience.

  Speaking of staying present, the discussion with Nancy after Thursday’s lesson had me wake in the morning with this insight:

  I woke with an unusual train of thought after last night's Feldenkrais lesson - training the eyes, vestibular system to be centred WHILST moving up and down stabilises the 'self' provides a stronger stance for the self - a wholistic sense of the whole BEing. What if.. what humans 'see' is an extension of self... ie, to be able to see the ceiling in this example fixes an anchor in space that then gives the human body a point of focus to move from.

  The eyes influence the internals, nervous, lymphatic, skeletal systems ++

  The further the eyes are 'fixed' away from ones body, the greater that distance is from the feet, from where we ground our selves… and every fraction of a millimetre matters.

  Then, of course, the closer the fixation of the eyes to ones body, the lesser the range of movement is available because the distance is smaller.

  Where this thought process got really interesting is when time entered the space.

  IF movements are connected with time
  (and I think that is the case - with injuries, there is a where, when, what happened associated with each fall, 'accident', ailment, disassociation with ease...)
  then, the memory of events impacts the present moment.
  These memories act as an anchor, how far people can "see" events in time pulls us into a position.
  How to illustrate such a thought process?
  The work I did in Virtual Reality expanded these thought processes,
  illustrating thoughts in the third dimension makes what’s been seen difficult to "unsee" those possibilities.
  hhhmmm... it's got me thinking... I created Cheeky Mouse for the last few lessons because of the reactions from Feldenkrais participants.. IMAGINING a mouse running up the wall proved too challenging for some people - merely *the thought* of a furry little critter being in their vicinity stops some people from participating.

  Which is quite possibly a large part of what prompted this morning's insights.

May your stream of consciousness flow with delight after doing this lesson :)