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Jan 11
2011
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In preparing my workshop “Moving from Your Core”, using concepts from The Feldenkrais® Method, it was interesting for me to read a colleague's description of his movements skating.
“I went skating the other day and thought about my arms as we had been discussing. But something else happened altogether. I spent the entire time sensing my core, realizing how much I was in the habit of skating non-skeletally, that is, letting my muscles deal with the intense effort of a quick acceleration or a high speed [and to] corner in a way that didn't maintain optimal skeletal alignment. [This time] I mostly focused on my pelvis and lower back. When that straightened itself out - metaphorically that is - everything else at least had a chance to stay relatively in place, and I began to experience a real sense of potency that had a distinctly different quality from that of muscular exertion. I was indeed exerting myself, but it was now supported by an aligned core which made everything work much better. [ I explored] how much to lean into a corner so my spine maintained its 'naturality' -- what a cool experience! By comparison, what I had been doing before was 'twisted' in the mental as well as physical sense. ??I really did try to pay attention to my arms but they remained peripheral, I just let them hang out and swing where they would while I enjoyed this new sense of proximal power… " Alan Frasier ….. CFP
