Finding his feet gives him a crucial moment of being 100% present in space and time. That’s the magic of perceptual tensegrity: feet feeling the ground; hands sensing the ball, vectors dancing together for a perfect shot.
Read MoreIn order to make the smallest action, our bodies must have a base of support and a sense of knowing where we are. We must be oriented to both the ground and to our spatial surroundings.
Read MoreA few years ago, yoga instructor David Thornton, asked me whether I’d been thinking about the chakras when I described the posture zones in The New Rules of Posture. Here’s what I wrote to David: I understand the chakras to be energy vortices located along the body’s central energy channel that affect all aspects of the person—body/mind/spirit. The chakras have spiritual or emotional content that impedes the free flow of energy through the core of the being…
Read MoreIf you read between the lines, you probably sense that under the banner of “The New Rules of Posture,” I’m actually sharing a somatic practice–a physical path to self-knowledge. Here’s what I wrote in The New Rules: to improve your posture you need to 1) “create new sense memories for what feels balanced and stable…” and 2) view “your posture as an ongoing perceptual process by which you orient yourself to gravity and to your relationship with the people, objects and events in your world.” Not something you do once and forget about. It’s a practice…
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