It has the ability to store life experience, hold it in, and pull the tendons and muscles in toward it. What allows us to create and express ourselves out in the world is the tendons and muscles moving outward from the bone. The more trauma is held in the bones, the more the rest of the body is pulled into the bone. When bone is stimulated by touch, palpation, being leaned into or rolled on, it begins to awaken and change form. From being brittle, contracted, very dull when touched, like a cement wall, it can become fuller, more porous, and more alive.
Bone begins to pulse and vibrate and actually expand under the influence of touch.
When bone is palpated or the ball is sinking into it, there might be no response at first. After one to five minutes, a pulsing sensation begins and the bone actually starts to melt and change form. As the bone awakens, it expands outward, setting off an outward-moving release. The tendons, instead of gripping tightly to the bone, begin to unwind outward, freeing the muscle. Trauma that has been stored in the bone is freed from its deep holding pattern to the bone.