Movement begins in the brain.
Our exquisitely sensitive nervous system makes the most efficient choices from the options it has available.
Any change to how we move, manifests first through our brain’s plasticity.
To expand the bank of new options it can choice from
First get your brain and nervous system interested.
Use your mindfulness
Your attention
Your awareness
As you move
To see where you can do less.
Where you can reduce effort.
Reducing effort divides force evenly through our form.
We discover how to move with simplicity, lightness and ease.
To lose effort
How would it be to go slow?
S l o w I n g as you move gives time to notice.
To sense and feel difference.
The sensing of difference
Is the language of the nervous system.
It loves difference.
It loves variation.
To get the nervous system interested,
to initiate change, go small.
Going small without pushing or forcing
dissolves resistance.
It’s not how much I move or how far I move.
It’s how I move.
Let an ease-ful quality get banked.
Go small to get big
….with ease.
True learning is often the result of playful accidents
A delightful discovery
Something surprising, fresh, unexpected.
The un-thought of.
The result of new neural pathways.
That make function easier and more comfortable.
To experience this in action join me for a short, easy movement exploration.
Be prepared to be surprised!
This 6 minute exploration is best done sitting on a chair or a stool with a firm flat seat. (Not an armchair).
Sit away from the back of the chair with your feet flat on the floor.
You can check out this short video to see more about the set up for the exploration.
THIS IS NOT ESSENTIAL.
Some useful guidelines to keep in mind as you move:
1. Make yourself comfortable. Don’t try to sit well.
2. Move gently. Do not struggle against yourself. Your nervous system learns best if you are kind to it.
3. Attend to yourself in a gentle, almost meditative way.
4. Only do what feels comfortable and easy. Repeat: Only do what feels comfortable and easy.
5. Stop before anything is uncomfortable. If something is uncomfortable, do less, imagine it, or rest.
6. Keep it playful and enjoy it!
Follow the movement exploration here:
Let me know how you got on.
Ruth x
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