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From Posture to Performance with Pete Kadushin
From Posture to Performance with Pete Kadushin
Interview on Brett Kane's Podcast
Join Brett and Mary for a rich conversation about embodiment, perception, fascia and biotensegrity!
Twenty-first Century Vitalism Podcast
A podcast exploring what it takes to be fully alive during these strange and potent times.
Interoceptive Midline
In 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.
Touching into Presence Podcast
Wide-ranging conversation about tensegrity, Rolf Movement®, and the principles of Rolfing Structural Integration.
Yoga, Alignment and Movement
Diminished spatial perception creates compression in the body. That diminution of interior body space is a major cause of poor postural organization and limited range of motion. Changing how you stand or move is not the answer. Changing how you perceive and interact with the world is.
Spatial Orientation as a Source of Support
This exploration is one I share with nearly every one of my private clients. Awareness of the space around our bodies is uplifting. It emancipates joints, making movement freer, as I hope you’ll be able to feel for yourself..
Perceptual Tensegrity
Tensegral body attitude, by expanding the space within the torso, grants more living room to your organs, beneficially affecting all visceral functions, including circulation, respiration, and digestion. And, because expansive visceral space contributes to high vagal tone, it can positively affect both health and social connectedness.
Mastectomy, Spatial Perception and Movement
After explaining these phenomena to my client, I suggested she notice any sense of diminished movement on the affected side. To become more aware of the space around her body she could imagine a sphere—something like a snow globe—and standing within it, notice differences her sense of the qualities of the space on each side.
Posture and Politics #1
I’ve decided to try a different tactic: I’m going to choose to watch him (and his henchmen) while at the same time drawing on every resource in my body awareness arsenal to sustain my space and energy.
Morning Posture; Morning Attitude
I also know that moving stiffly--ambulating with the bare minimum of joints engaged--becomes a habit that can’t entirely be blamed on my bodily tissues. Habits take place in the brain. The more often I move stiffly, the more familiar and less optional that way of moving becomes. I can choose how I move.
Spatial Perception in Daily Life
When we resist doing a task, part of the body is holding back. Instead of all your muscle units working together to finish the chore, a high percentage of them rebel and pull the opposite way. It’s like driving the car with the brakes on. The chore feels heavy, pressured and hurried.
Living in the Sagittal Plane
Not merely aware of the space around them, our ancestors were integrated into their surroundings. We can imagine that they viewed themselves—if they viewed themselves at all--as aspects of the tensional integrity of all life.
Posture & Perception: Naked Skin Moments
Contemporary living undervalues body awareness and overrides it most of the time. But could it be that listening to our interior body signals has an evolutionary advantage? If so, we undervalue this capacity to our detriment. We need to practice activating it.