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🎥 Calm - VIDEO PLAYLIST 🎥
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3nUnbdrhRjyaTXBQhzgA7qI1AdQXJxai
What does “calm” mean to you?
This playlist highlights some ways to reconnect to your innate ease and vitality.
Calm doesn’t have to mean lying on the floor. It can simply mean noticing your current pace and choosing to pause in awareness.
This simple act of pausing and noticing shifts can shift your mood/sensation/intention, without you having to DO or FIX something.
Relaxation is a common misinterpretation of the sense of ease and efficiency.
Relaxation and collapse have their usefulness! One of my Alexander Technique teachers once said, “sometimes you need to take a good ol’ SLUMP!” And I do. Choicefully and mindfully.
What I teach is a clarification of the SENSATION of relaxation when a student moves or sings in a way that feels easy and efficient, especially if what they’re used to is the sensation of EFFORT (heavy, tight, strained). Links to Babette Lightner’s Wholeness in Motion work HERE.
🎥 VIDEO 🎥
The sitting bones are the two curved bones that make up the bottom of your pelvis. The fancy name is the ischial tuberosity (ya, that’s why we say “sitting bones.”)
We often experience discomfort after sitting for a long time if we’ve been balancing on the coccyx (tail bone) instead of these two majestic rockers. As a way to bring freedom back into the torso, we can explore the movement of the pelvis rolling around the head of the femur (thigh bone) by rocking forward and back on the sitting bones.
There are many ways into freeing your lower back from pain - this is just one exploration using some basic body mapping and gentle movement.
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🪑 Here are some helpful landmarks that can offer more freedom and ease in sitting.
While seated on a firm surface (ie: not a couch - unless you have a wooden couch?), explore some movement in order to feel your sitting bones making contact with the chair. As you rock side to side, forward and back, can you sense these two bony landmarks?
While sitting, these rounded bones at the bottom of the pelvis are the base of support for your torso.
So you can let go in your tail bone, release any holding in your hips and lower back, and unclench your thighs.
You can allow your heels to drop into the floor and release your calf muscles.
Can you hinge forward and back while allowing the hips, knees, and ankle joints to be free and easy?
Can you do “vaudeville legs” while you hinge forward and back? (In-joke from the video!)
Notice that your spine grows upward out of your pelvis.
When you hinge forward and back from the hip joints, your WHOLE TORSO PLUS HEAD comes out n the journey.
Add some 🎶 - what do you notice?
