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Recieved: 2002/12/16 10:26
Subject: [K-list] internal awareness / Body Mind Centering
From: Nina <murrkisATnospamyahoo.com>
On 2002/12/16 10:26, Nina <murrkisATnospamyahoo.com> posted thus to the K-list:
As part of my yoga teacher training, this weekend I had the pleasure
of taking a workshop with Lisa Clark that explored Body Mind
Centering techniques as applied to asana. For an overview of the
founder and school for these techniques, click the following link:
http://www.bodymindcentering.com
Typically, asana is taught from the ATnospambones and muscles' level of
awareness. "Make this form with your bones and then apply this action
with your muscles." The work this weekend assumed
this ATnospamknowledge/awareness base', and took awareness deeper, in our
case, specifically to the ATnospamsoft spine' (mouth to anus) and ATnospamlung
pillars' (the sets of right and left lobes). "Now, find the organic
life of the asana." It was fascinating to explore asana from this
perspective; it lends a fluidity of movement, of rhythmic contraction
and expansion, within the postures. Indeed, it may be felt that the
organs support a body as much as the bones are assumed to support the
body… though the manner of engagement of the support of the organs
differs naturally and dramatically from the method of engaging the
support of bones. Additionally, each fluid system of the body, each
organ has its own personality as regards manner and timing of
engagement.
This ATnospamtiming' is what is truly fascinating to me, and where the link
to Kundalini, or the ATnospamlife force', seems to lie.
Try this:
Standing, allow the breath to be receptive, gentle, unforced. Allow
it to enter the lungs as water into an expandable vessel.
Breathe into the lower front / back lobes of the lungs, fully, deeply.
Then breathe into the midfront / side lobes of the lungs, fully,
deeply.
Then breathe into the upper lobes of the lungs, fully, deeply.
Exhale to the natural stopping point and begin again.
What might be noticed is that this pattern of breathing naturally
draws the upper torso into a wave-like motion. Expanding the back and
relatively contracting the chest. Then expanding the chest forward.
Then expanding the chest upward. Exhaling to neutral and beginning
again.
What might also be noticed is that this wave-like motion is very
similar to the movement of inchworms. Expansion, contraction;
yielding to the ground, pushing from the ground, reaching from the
ground, pulling to the ground. Each in time, a cycling, a circling; a
fluid, rhythmic motion. It is a primal pumping action… something so
natural and inherent… that the reminder of it (if it has been lost,
forgotten, or blocked) carries the potential of ATnospamreunion'… re-
ignition.
While working with this rhythm of the breath, my body began to pick
up on another rhythm, a spinal rhythm, working from tail to crown…
two spines, a soft spine and a bony spine, working in unison. A third
spine, the spinal cord, engaged as well. Gradually, fascia and fluid
engaged. A powerful practice leading only to what is already present.
Transformation is inherent in such practices. The beginning student
of yoga might notice that even with the first class the intrinsic
muscles have been asked to reform to new information, thus the
declarations that ATnospam<they> are sore in muscles <they> didn't even know
<they> had'. Typically unused parts are called forward to re-engage.
It is in their sudden (painful or sensational) presence that they are
noticed. This process of expanding awareness is similar to what
happens when one is faced with dis-ease or illness in a certain organ
or body system. With attention to these parts, the parts become
clearer, take form in the mind. "The pain in my liver is here, my
liver is here, this is the shape of the pain, this is the shape of
the liver." This process is applicable to function as well as form.
Dis-ease, illness, sensation are tools to become aware of the
presence and interconnectivity of our innards.
One of the remarkable aspects of the explorations of Clark's workshop
was that many of us were being asked to ATnospamget a handle on' our innards
without the tool of illness or disease. (Though, believe me,
after ATnospamreforming' the ribs and rib/spinal joints and intercostals
around ATnospamsupporting lungs', the sensations were creeping in!) One of
my classmates expressed wonder at the fact that she had never really
attempted to ATnospamfind her liver'… a sentiment that is no doubt shared by
many.
Even more remarkable was that, given permission to resume the
inherent bodily rhythms, the body will reveal its parts. For me, some
of this ATnospamrevelation' manifested through various spasms, soreness, and
emotional waves that I have little doubt corresponded to the
reformation, the return towards ATnospamnormal' (read: the removal of
blockages), of various internal organs and systems. One needs
only ATnospamhang out' on the tide of this reformative process, observing
from a place free of fear and judgment, soaking in what knowledge /
awareness is made available.
That's all for now…
Best to you all,
Nina
http://www.kundalini-gateway.org
http://www.domin8rex.com/serpent/spirit/kindex.htm
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