podcast – kinesophics

After a slow season, lessons are beginning again. Here's something quiet, introspective--just a little lifting of a shoulder here, a hip there, a head from time to time. And the basic "directions" that structure the image of the action, while we're at it.

A fall re-acquaintance with the floor. The smoother your roll, the greater the lengthening of your left side--the more cleverly you're organizing yourself for a "reversible" movement.

A fall re-acquaintance with the floor. The smoother your roll, the greater the lengthening of your left side--the more cleverly you're organizing yourself for a "reversible" movement.

I'd better get this posted while it's still summer, what with all the summer commentary about how to be your own teacher. Legs crossed, arms in a triangle--how far can you go and still keep your balance? Or maybe that question stops making sense, and you can go wherever you want to go.

I'd better get this posted while it's still summer, what with all the summer commentary about how to be your own teacher. Legs crossed, arms in a triangle--how far can you go and still keep your balance? Or maybe that question stops making sense, and you can go wherever you want to go.

Something about phase changes between solids and liquids...that and some good old-fashioned Newtonian laws of motion. The third.

Something about phase changes between solids and liquids...that and some good old-fashioned Newtonian laws of motion. The third.

Remember spinning and spinning and spinning in circles when you were a kid? Back when getting dizzy was a fun, mind- and world-altering experience and not an unpleasant crisis?

Remember spinning and spinning and spinning in circles when you were a kid? Back when getting dizzy was a fun, mind- and world-altering experience and not an unpleasant crisis?

A little long this one....but early reports describe the lesson as "invigorating" or "a wake-up"! Face down, and figuring out what your feet are doing back there behind you where you can't see them (and how your back is helping).

A little long this one....but early reports describe the lesson as "invigorating" or "a wake-up"! Face down, and figuring out what your feet are doing back there behind you where you can't see them (and how your back is helping).

In this lesson, you'll explore the elements of your own personal bridge (the series of "arches" rising from the floor and the parts of you that rest on the floor, providing support for the arches), and start to play with your arches....raise the bridge, lower it, raise some part and lower others....developing a more supple spine and clearer perception of transmission of forces in gravity, with special bonus organization of the hips and shoulders!

Kicking off a new series aimed at twisting things around, growing taller, and getting that spine of yours more supple. With a special shout-out to cousins who find it interesting to grow taller. This is a variation on a familiar kind of lesson, but it is a new variation, I promise.

Kicking off a new series aimed at twisting things around, growing taller, and getting that spine of yours more supple. With a special shout-out to cousins who find it interesting to grow taller. This is a variation on a familiar kind of lesson, but it is a new variation, I promise.

This fascinating lesson (but which lesson isn't fascinating?) is (literally?) an eye-opener. Picking up some ideas from [[Violin arms]] but moving closer in to the core, it will show you some connections and some distinctions you probably have never felt before in your shoulders.