A SURPRISED BODY

A focus on external and internal supports

I started the class proposing a series of exercises on the floor that directed the focus on the activity of the external and internal supports: the feet, and the hands, became anchors of the movement, through pulling/pushing from the floor.

We can be very released in the body, isolated in the limbs, organic and functional in the movement, by the combined use of the centre and of an active periphery.

Widening the perception of the body, we aimed to allow the “inactive part” (especially the chest, neck, head areas) to receive and let flow the movement without decision.

In my experience of self-learning processing, I noticed that a constant work on removing tension helps in allowing the body to be fonctional, groovy, disarticulated and effective. 

Very often, we tend to be more active than necessary. By focusing on the part of the body that receives the movement -more than on the one that initiates it, that usually takes all our attention-, we aimed to minimase the tension in the limbs and to let go routines and habitual approaches. Not all the body is active, at the same time, in the same way.

It was interesting to hear some of the participants commenting that, initially, once showed, the proposals seamed organic and simple. Only when experiencing it in the practice, one would notice the inner challenge in activating specific engines for the movement through the lower back area.