Do/Don't Do - Taking It Slow 1 - Knees, Jaws, Eyes
Do/Don't Do - Taking It Slow 1 - Knees, Jaws, Eyes
Allowing Movement, Not Resisting Movement
Based on “Knees, Jaws, Eyes” as taught by Al Wadleigh, GCFP®
Going deep to get ready to spring into blossom. This brief series is a chance to go slowly, go deeply to allow easy movement.
“Knees, Jaw, Eyes” is a quieting lesson. People who experience migraines say doing these movements can provide relief. A component of that relief is releasing unnecessary muscle tension that ‘helps’ but just gets in the way.
“Learning must be slow and varied in effort until the parasitic efforts are weeded out: then we have little difficulty in acting fast, and powerfully.”
By going very slowly, and moving with great gentleness towards ourselves, hidden ‘parasitic’ movements may reveal themselves. And by going slowly and moving with great gentleness towards ourselves, we can begin to release these unnecessary tensions, possibly unraveling whole patterns of deep tension.
This is a supine (on back) lesson that is easily adapted to sitting on a firm chair. The movements are simple, allowing for concentration and sensitivity.
Tracking the knee movement with the jaw and eyes provides subtle information about the spine’s, shoulders’ and neck’s spinal alignment, and hidden habits of tension that have arisen to keep yourself upright.
“Find your true weakness and surrender to it. Therein lies the path to genius. Most people spend their lives using their strengths to overcome or cover up their weaknesses. Those few who use their strengths to incorporate their weaknesses, who don’t divide themselves, those people are very rare. In any generation there are a few and they lead their generation.
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Set Up:
Lying supine on a mat with bent knees
OR seated on a flat-bottom chair, knees level with hips
How You Might Feel After This Lesson: Deeply Relaxed; Sensitive to Connections between eyes, jaw, neck, shoulders, pelvis and knees; Able to allow movement to flow unimpeded through the whole body; Enjoy NOT doing to do.
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