Composing Experience

Perceiving and interacting with the world around you — a Feldenkrais perspective

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Living in Gravity DVD

March 28th, 2010 · No Comments · , Effort, Perception, balance, being grounded, contains video, somatic organization

This entry is part 5 of 5 in the series Being Grounded

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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The importance of pelvic flexibility

February 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Awareness, Effort, balance, being grounded

This entry is part 4 of 5 in the series 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 [...]

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