Chasing you into the Light

My left arm

Lately...... no, historically...  I've had a problem with my left arm...

It keeps lifting to punch me in the eye as I do my circles... 

My Alexander teacher discovered this quite on her own and showed me how I fail to ALLOW my arm (humerus) to hang and be supported in it's scoopy resting place on the radius ulna....

Sometimes you need a coach to help develop an awareness of how you use ( or misuse) your body...

Center is a state of being that is not confined to a certain posture or a constantly held image. We can relate to center from any number of positions or actions. 
We can be centered while sitting, carrying, sweeping, or driving.. Being centered is an attitude we carry, it is a quality of being present and comfortably balanced within our body and our environment,

It embodies intent, focus, patience, direction and an intuition for timing, 

It's a dance

                                                                  

It's fairly easy to know What you're working for..

eventually you learn Why..

                                   
                                                                  A Training Pyramid

Re-membering....that's what we're supposed to be doing, per nature, but now she's just making stuff up.

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