Viewing gravity as a nutritive force, we begin to see the concept of the nurturing earth as rigorously scientific, not just sentimental. The answer leads to a stunning discovery. Since energy flows through us predominantly in the vertical, the extent to which we depart from the gracefully vertical we cut ourselves off from energy flow. Hunched over or locked into an overly fixed posture, we literally unplug ourselves from the main energy circuit available to us. The corollary of course is terrifically exciting.
Touch emanating from enhanced verticality is experienced as having a higher voltage.
Experiment with your clients and ask the difference between their experience of touch with a hunched-over posture versus touch arising from a graceful verticality. They can tell, for example, even lying prone with eyes closed, whether the therapist is grounded or not. Hyperextended knees will diminish the energy flow by locking it up instead of being a freed conduit for it. Similarly there's a sense of heaviness, a lack of heavenly connection, when the therapist hunches over and works with a flexed spine and medially rotated shoulders. The mammal feeling comes from a body that's excessively earthbound.