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In the first post in this series on Being Grounded, I defined being grounded as a state of relaxed skeletal balance where the forces generated by the weight of your body pass cleanly through your skeleton into the ground, and supporting forces from the ground are transmitted back up through your skeleton. I’ve recently released [...]
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Living in Gravity DVD
March 28th, 2010 · No Comments · , Effort, Perception, balance, being grounded, contains video, somatic organization
Tags: Awareness·balance·grounding·pelvis·skeletal alignment·walking
The importance of pelvic flexibility
February 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Awareness, Effort, balance, being grounded
The experience of being grounded comes from having a clear proprioceptive sense of the path of support from the ground beneath you through your feet. When your body weight is carried by a balanced, relaxed skeleton the supportive forces pass cleanly from one bone to next along the path, making that path of support relatively [...]
Tags: Awareness·balance·grounding·pelvis·skeletal alignment·walking
The experience of being grounded
November 21st, 2008 · 2 Comments · Awareness, Effort, Perception, balance, being grounded, somatic organization
Much is written about being grounded. A google search turns up more than 700,000 entries for the term. Some are about the kind of being grounded that happens to a child as a form of punishment, but most have to do with connection to the ground and its consequences. Some writers see it in terms [...]
The Somatic Dimension
January 8th, 2008 · No Comments · Action, Choice, Effort, Feldenkrais, Perception, Perceptual process, somatic organization
So far we’ve been looking primarily at the perception of information impinging on you from the outside world. But human experience involves more than that. You are a physical being, with a physical body that moves through space and interacts with the world around you, physically and in other ways. You assess situations, make choices, [...]
Tags: information·perceptual lens
Composing different experiences
November 27th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Action, Choice, Effort, Perception, Perceptual process
When I teach Composing Experience in workshops, I often begin with a direct experience illustrating how strongly your unconscious choices can affect your experience — even in situations that seem clear and straightforward. This is one of those experiences.
The situation is one in which you put one hand on your forehead and hold it there, [...]
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