michael young's blog

To be completely honest, feeling the U is not always the easy for me. I can feel four points at the "corners" of it more readily. I can clearly feel the back stop and the toes going out and away from the heel. I can feel relationship between my sacrum and my heel and the unification through the legs. I can feel the shoulders being supported and the sternum lift up. For all of that the U still eludes me and I still find it difficult to release my diaphragm. I guess that those things will come along when my body is ready.

A strange thing that I've noticed is that I feel more clumsy in day to day movement. Am I actually more clumsy because my body is in the process of learning a new way to be or am I just aware of how clumsy I've always been but was too dull to perceive it?

Something I've noticed is that I will itch after a training session, especially with moving training and breath work. Is this normal? The itching is transient and is often only in certain regions of the body like the front of the arms but sometimes it can be fairly strong, but passes quickly. I wanted to ask about this since it seems to be happening regularly. Thanks in advance, sifu!