Reclaim Your Power
Correct posture can not be possible without the pelvis being able to move freely in all its articulations. Meaning that the hip joints and the small of the back can sway and move in all the areas they are designed to move in. If the one of the motions of the pelvis is restrained, the fluency of action is broken. One’s ability to move freely in any chosen direction from any position was defined by Moshe Feldenkrais as acture.
Currently due to our contemporary fashion in regards to our bodies we have this idea that a “good figure” is to suck the belly in. Rejecting the fat rounded natural belly shape. The requires most adults to suck the belly in around the hara area and often means tucking the sacred tailbone in as well. Instead of allowing us to move the belly and pelvic in all planes of action it's designed to move in.
The prejudiced against any belly whatsoever. Places the body in a tucked in, sucked up position which means the body imprisons the large muscles which are necessary for potent movement: the core abdominal, the gluteal muscles, the hip and back flexors and the deep muscle of the pelvic floor. Impacted in addition to this fashion statement we making with our sucked in flat belly, is the various life experiences: of our education and parental influences, including any trauma and socialization while growing up. These all impact on the habits we ingrain into our movement patterns.
Not only do we find the largest muscles inhibited but the sphincters tighten, buttocks gripping and the groin muscles restricted. All this tension as a result of unexpressed fears, performance anxiety and habits held onto since childhood. This tension impacting not only the muscles of the pelvic area but causing as into an awkward stance and movement, which can lead to tension in the jaw, neck, shoulders and even back pain.
Whats curious is this current fashion standard dis-empowers the individual by placing them in compulsion, nervousness, impotence (both sexual and in action), and insecurity. These “anxiety patterns” as Feldenkrais terms them reflects a movement pattern that holds back the individual to reach their true potential.
When you unleash the power of the pelvis it can initially be accompanied by the emotions the first entrapped it. By reclaiming your pelvic power so to you can reclaim your potency and influence over your own life.
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