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Joel Zimba wrote:
I have yet again been reminded that even the most simplistic terms can be misleading.
A couple of weeks ago, I was working with someone hands-on, and she said:
"Have you noticed that you keep your lower abdomin kind of tight and maintain a constant posterior tilt to your pelvis?"
To which I replied, "duhhh" because I couldn't tell. it felt perfectly reasonable to me.
So, after a few manipulations, I felt what it's like to really move the lowest part of my abdomin downward while inhalin and simultaneously slightly engagin my extensors. Suddenly my center of gravity moved forward and down ... The kinesthetic sensation was that my hips were down around my knees
Without unnecessary tension pulling my spine back and downward, I could feel the upward push of the bone chain from the balls of each toe going up my spine and to my skull. Quite an odd thing to fel taller and lower at the same time.
Now I have to re-think all of these issues, like where is my dantien, and what am I turning when ... and could I have been using wrong alignment for aikido-taiji, etc all of these years?
I'm pretty sure I can feel L5 turning in the pelvic cradle when I turn my waist now. very creepy sensation.
who'd'of thunk it.
Joel
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very nice, good description too! Were you physically corrected to help remove the tension or did you just work it out yourself?