As Light as a Finger: Games of Weightlessness (Patrons)
Back-lying, framed by brief standing experiments. Create a lighter sense of your body and mind in the field of gravity by using a playful neurological analogy. Explore how your hips, feet, and head can become as light as a finger when you learn to lift them with evenly distributed muscle tone throughout your body. Begins with a 3-minute talk about work, effort, "weightless" movement, and proportional tone.
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This is a really interesting practice. At the beginning I believed I was moving with as little effort as possible and then realised I was tensing my back while trying to lift (or pretend to lift) the foot and then became aware of many other things tensing as well. After a while I still felt activation in other parts of the body but my breath wasn’t restricted and my lower back wasn’t tensing or straining. In fact I didn’t feel any isolation of movement or support through my lower back. Will practice this again
A perfect rainy Sunday morning experiential! I now feel so light and spacey. A new insight into how light getting up from the floor can be.
I am finding this lesson so profound. I have been doing it almost every day for the past week and each time I find something else new to me. It seems to link strongly into my frame of mind and so if I’m a little scared or upset, then the ‘lightness’ is much harder to access. It is incredible the difference between both sides of my body from day to day even. Sometimes the right side is the easier one and sometimes the left.
Another thing that is really opening up to me is a more even distribution of tone which really helps me to feel the total wholeness of my body and the inter-relationality of all the parts working together.
More please!!!
I find this to be profound learning too – the first time I explored this lesson it knocked my socks off, and I share the sense that it seems to be different every time I revisit it. I very much agree that it points particularly clearly at our wholeness and integration. I am working on multiple follow-up lessons already, though none are quite like this. It is a great one to repeat often!