With the over use  of our devices we have developed unhealthy habits around our spine.

Tips for the year regarding our spine are:

1- there is no hinge in our spine, meaning we all collapse under our ribs trying like “mad” to put a hinge where there is none.

2- good new, we have a hinge it is where our legs meet our torso, pelvic girdle.

3- Still good news: we can pivot there to move through space to reach our computer, to reach  across the table to get the salt, as we stand at the sink and wash our dishes or fill the dishwasher, or pick up the baby.

4-Now we are getting it… more later

ENJOY THOSE LUSH JOINTS TO PIVIOT FROM!!

Some more food for thought:  this teaching, Technique does not give us/you the right answer but it teaches/gives you something different then what you’ve been doing and it also gives you a means for choosing.

What this means is you now have a choice  you can do the old thing, habit or you can make a choice not to.   And in doing that you undo the old and something new/different is available.  More about that later…..

Dare to be wrong.   Take a chance to find out what you do that is causing the discomfort/habit, and allow me to give you an experience that you don’t know nor  feels right.

Students often say “I feel crooked, I feel uneven” at the end of a lesson.  I then ask them to look in the mirror and to their surprise they are upright and straight.  The new experience is now in the body and possible for them to find again.

Working with my student this week I am reminded something Walter Carrington talked about something called ”taking time”.

When we go to do something we often are rushing what if we came back to ourselves (here is jargon) so I am going to explain to you what I mean. We want to stop/pause whatever we are doing in our rushing and notice the tension we are using and do it with less tension undoing our habit. One moment a millisecond, I promise this takes little time to notice. It is the noticing that we then can free ourselves to direct out our heads and go on our merry way doing our task. It will happen with less effort/tension and much more joy.