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Dancing...

8/26/2019

Dancing in attunement
dancing a breath
a lineage
a life
a thankfulness
a gift.

dancing presence/presents
to the body
dancing presence to the mind
for the mind
for the body.

Dancing from a need to feel every moment
every space
every nook
every emanation
every possibility
every time
every instant.

Dancing to celebrate life
dancing to express spirit
psyche
abundance and lack
need.

Dancing to connect
dancing to float
and be carried
by air.

Dancing to accept
to give...

Why I love Walking (and what happens when I take the first step)

8/17/2019

Raised body mass on two feet
Potential kinetic energy
I slightly disengage a number of muscles and my torso tips forward, the web of tissues that make up my body responds,
Moving the center of gravity out in front of me
Bringing my leg forward in anticipation of a fall
I resist and give in to gravity, at the same time
The smallest impulse sets a series of events in motion,
Each action is a result as well as a cause
Stepping one foot in front of the other
I fall through space
I control direction, speed, rhythm,
Undulations traveling through the entire body
Toes spreading out
Massaging against the ground
Tarsals sliding, gliding against each other
Muscular contractions pumping blood back to the heart, moving lymph
Movement nourishing cartilaginous surfaces
Undulations, micro movements encouraging fluid to nourish the inter vertebral discs
Collaboration
Delegation
Love
Fluidity, a sense of floating across the ground
The pelvic girdle undulating in a figure eight type fashion, together and individually, each half, mobile subtle movement, anterverting and retroverting, tipping forward and back,
A subtle, detail oriented dance of the components of the entire body
Pushing off with my back foot to lift that half of the pelvis up and over so that it's leg can swing through
Allowing gravity to assist me and guide my leg in front of me to fall in line with my other foot
Psoas, like a slingshot assisting it's propulsion
Slinky
Undulating through space
Head bobbing on atlas like a cork on water
Contralateral action, arms swinging in rhythm against the feet, supporting inhale and exhale, helping ensure my forward trajectory
A wave traveling up my spine: from the tailbone tipping under ever so slightly, the fascial and ligamentous pull moves the sacroiliac joint, pulling the left ilium into a tiny retroversion, the tailbone swinging back while the resulting undulation travels upward, lifts the chest up towards the sky, lifting my heart, bringing my chin down, and back up as the tailbone yet again translates and tips forward,
The stepping motion of the legs translates to a stepping motion of the two halves of the pelvis
With each step the forward leg is externally rotated at the hip, while the back leg is internally rotated, the rotation at the spine, in combination with the rotation at the hip allows my feet to remain facing forward
With each step, each tip, each tilt, each rotation sends an undulation through the body that follows it's unique direction of activity, down and up, forward and backward, around to the left and the right
The spine leaning forward and up and over the future support, the front foot, spiraling up and over it, stretching and recoiling each time
My body is dancing
Polyrythms sprouting up everywhere
my arm, raised mass in front of me helping me up and over the hill, potential kinetic energy stored, in my arms and legs, ready to play, I can't wait to let go again and hitch another one of a million rides on the perfect wave
Twisting, spiraling, counterrotation massaging my intestines, my lungs, my heart, which thumps beautifully along, sending little waves through my elastic tissues, creating millions of interference patterns through the water of my body
60% water
Two thirds of water is intracellular
One forth plasma
Four fifths interstitial
The rest gastrointestinal, cerebrospinal, ocular fluid

I am
Swimming along

Landing on the foot
Lateral bias
The receptive foot, the outside, ready to absorb the shock that I negotiated carefully to be distributed so it, my center of gravity, can float in the air somewhere in between my feet, reaching forward and remaining in the past, being in the moment, testing for ground, finding future, sensing the surface, touching down, plantar fascia expanding, toes expanding, arches springy, pulsing, tickling the nerves, sending piezo electric signals to my brain, bones bending, requesting osteoblasts to build more bone, density, strengthening with every step
Body responding to demand
Like a fish through water, the forces travel through the foot
Feeling the air caress my skin
Feeling the speed of falling through space and reinventing each step, like a fractal, not a copy, not redundant, but anew
Negotiating falling, muscles assisting, they are not movers, but observers and my response team to subtle changes in speed, surface texture, incline...
Managing the body masses on their way down towards the earth and up away from it
(Pause) stillness. Close your eyes.
Lateral compensation
My spine leaning, swaying like seaweed in water to one side and then the other, front and back, up and down, and everywhere in between.
Fibonacci spirals, helixes, a complex web of tensile strength.
And I fall again.
fascia holding it all together, enveloping the spinal cord, the nerves, the blood vessels, organs, the skin, the lymph ducts, the muscles, muscle groups, fibers, fibrils, the bone,, the cells, the water,
Tensegrity
The whole body is a floating structure of Tensegrity
Semi rigid components floating in an elastic, web of enormous strength
Sesamoid bones
Space in joints, synovial fluid
No columns here
There is not a single straight line in the body

Timing
Breath
Thoughts running along side me, playing around, not needing to walk, they can fly
Air being sucked into my lungs
Mobility in all joints
Every articulation responding to the slightest pull of structures happily moving around
Roots to stop and massage the bottom of my feet, the curb, a rock, searching for the most interesting path
Thoughts connecting to a more ethereal existence that is connected by the particles of the air
Which is like water, but thinner
Exhaling
Inhaling
Exhaling
Inhaling