Awareness Through Movement #528

Advancing on all fours - TIMING, RHYTHM

Moshe drops a few gold nuggets in this lesson:

“A bird stands on a high electric wire and is not afraid
because he can always fly.”

“Whoever does not know what easy movements are
could struggle with large movements”

and this:

“It is not a disgrace to learn”

As humans age we seem to forget what it takes to learn, the embarrassment, facing the possibility of being laughed at by peers as we (at first) struggle to hold chopsticks for the first time and work out out to lay them in our hands so that our fingers have some sort of control over the movements!

As we age we tend to learn in private, as if in preparation for when we can come out in to the world and show others the end result… rather than let them see all the struggles in between.

… as if the process is disgraceful.

I suppose that’s some of the advantage of doing these lessons in the privacy of home, where others can not see what is behind the new graceful movements our bodies start to adapt to from contorting our selves into all the different shapes and movements these novel lessons ask for.

Novel, like this one.

You will be on all fours, or sixes if you count the feet AND the knees, make sure you have something for under the knees if they are a little achey.