| 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 |
