Though we are designed to walk upright, our fears, beliefs, injuries, and social conditioning all create patterns of unnecessary muscular tension which pull us out of alignment with gravity, keeping us in a constant state of stress. Improving our standing balance improves confidence, strength, and well-being. This lesson works extensively with feet, ankles, legs, and hip joints, changing alignment of feet and legs, connecting spine to earth through feet, and exploring issues of groundedness. Because of the construction of our bodies and nervous systems, our functional images of ourselves tend to be oriented to our extremities, with a much less clear picture of how our hands and feet are functionally connected to our center and to each other. Like all living organisms, we are constantly moving through a cycle of feeling needs, organizing behavior to satisy our needs, taking in nourishment when it becomes available, and taking time to rest and feel satisfied.
Unfulfilled needs create physical and energetic tension until they are relieved or satisfied.
When you know what you need, you can begin to create ways to get it. This lesson works with connecting hands and feet to trunk, spine, and center, and with joints, limbs, and diagonals. Explores themes of reaching out, making contact, self-observation. Stabilizing your center of gravity. The only thing we can control in this world is our action in this moment.