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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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Awareness'
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 [...]
Awareness and Attention
January 27th, 2008 · No Comments · Awareness, Choice, Feldenkrais, Perception, Perceptual process
The Perceptual Process model describes the information flows we use in the composing experience. I want to shift focus now to look at some of the ways we manage that information. Two major processes through which we do that are awareness and attention. As a simplistic first approximation, we might say that awareness makes information [...]
Choice and Experience
September 13th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Action, Choice, Feldenkrais, Perception, Perceptual process
Choice and life are intimately intertwined. Life presents us with choices, and the way we make those choices determines how we experience life. Some high-level choices seem big and in the foreground, like choosing a career, or a mate, or where to live, or what U.S. foreign policy should be. We give those choices a [...]
