Awareness Through Movement #454

Preparations for hands inside - out – CO ORDINATION

I asked Grok HOW this particular lesson is beneficial for people with osteopenia or osteoporosis, it came back with:

This lesson creates a mild resistance and weight-bearing forces through the lower limbs and pelvis, which can stimulate bone re-modeling in the hips and femurs.

The repeated lengthening of arms against the floor generates gentle tension through the upper body, engaging the shoulder girdle and upper spine. These actions provide low-level mechanical stress, which is necessary for maintaining bone health.

Through these movements you will be activating muscles around key bone structures… hips, spine, and shoulders… through coordinated movements. Muscle contractions pull on bones, creating mechanical signals that stimulate osteoblasts bone-building cells. Rolling the pelvis and lengthening the arms engages the muscles of the back, hips, and shoulders, indirectly supporting bone density in these areas.

It was first brought to my attention that Feldenkrais is great for bones, when a practitioner of many years explained how the bones release calcium in to the body when they are met with ground “forces”. When you are prompted to press in to the floor, you might like to think of the movement happening within your skeletal system, a lot more is happening that we are aware. Many people associate the bones with death, whereas in reality, bones are a living system:

Movements don’t HAVE to be painful or arduous to provide a benefit!