Sharon Friedman – Vigilance and Tranquility

Weakenss is in the mind. Consider your limitations of range in the tissue and joints. These limitations also give us structural efficiancy and power management. This is easier to explain in test than in words. Stand with feet at shoulder width and let the torso drop so you lean from it down. Now move the hips to one side till you reach the end of the comfortable range, change direction and transfer this wave or whip to the torso so it rises you with no activity from the muscles which usually do this. Another way is to bend the knees a bit and bounce a few times gaining momentoum and springing the torso upright. As it is all connected you can use this hip-knee transfer to rise from a squat position by shifting the mass from side to side and creating a chain transfer. It’s easier to reach this when you are tired and one sure way to become tired is to squat and jump high and fall back to a squat, wait a second to release the created elastic energy and jump again several times.

Another way to sense this is to lie prone and to bring one leg under the other so the whole body manifests this.