Week Nine: Meeting the World
In Your Body, In the World These first two practice videos help bridge the practices from Week Eight with the practices you will explore in this week. Integration Practice: Pulling Integration Practice: Pushing How does your inner awareness inform you about your interactions with the world? Every interaction you have in life…
Read MoreWeek Eight: Taking Space
What does your body tell you about the space you inhabit? Integrative Practice: Hips Thomas Hanna’s Cat Stretch series contributes a very effective way of connecting the psoas, lower back and walking movements. Here are a couple of examples of working with the ‘Superman’, without and with a ball. Your earliest sense of…
Read MoreWeek Seven: The Edges of Breathing
Where Does Your Breathing Begin? Sensing Practice: Noticing Yourself…with a Beanbag Exploring the Edges of Breath The limitations to your breath come in two forms: Structural limitations such as tension in the muscles of the rib cage and the diaphragm, which was last week’s focus. Interruptions to the flow of your…
Read MoreWeek Six: Breath and Awareness
How Do You Know You Are Breathing? From your first breath to your last, breathing expresses your relationship to the unfolding moment. How much you breathe moderates the charge in your body, feeding the fires of passion or banking your energetic engagement down to the lowest embers. As an expression of our interaction with life,…
Read MoreWeek One: Notice Yourself
Getting Started “I’m just doing this to save my miserable ass.” – Ram Dass Since you’re here, let’s get right to it. Start a journal of your journey Notice Yourself Each moment is an opportunity to take a snapshot of your sensory landscape Taking Stock Noticing your sensory landscape gives you a…
Read MoreWeek Two: Surfaces
When You Touch…how much are you touched? Notice Yourself As you explore your inner landscape, bring your attention to the places where you meet up with the world – the floor beneath your feet, the chair you are sitting on. How do you know they are there? Surfaces as a Mirror to Identity…
Read MoreWeek Three: Sensations of Movement
How Do I Know That I am Moving? How Much am I Moved by My Moving? Introduction to Sensations and Movement How Sensation Organizes Movement Movement is the expression of your interaction with your environment. In 1917, a movement instructor in Berlin was watching her students move through the ‘natural’ movements…
Read MoreWeek Four: Meeting at the Edge
photo by Sylvia Chard How does movement begin? Five Rhythms Movement Warmup Sensing Inner Landscapes: The Pelvis When you move, sensations we feel come most commonly from two sources – pleasant and unpleasant. But there is a third category, quietly available to inform your movement, feeding important information to the brain that often…
Read MoreWeek Five: The Unfolding Moment
How do sensations guide our interaction with the world? Practice: Spinal Walk Walk for a few minutes, noticing the quality of movement through your spine. Put a weight on your head – it could be a book or a beanbag. Notice how this weight affects your awareness of your spine and the quality of your…
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