michael young's blog

I noticed today that when I stand I release my back and shoulders and my hips and shoulders almost feel like the same thing. Also, I feel the organs have a support that they produce for the body. when I let everything go to the degree that I'm able the spaces or hollows form and the outside of the body can relax more and the inner spaces support the body still having space to breathe.  On another note, I realized today that my awarness of my body was that my torso was basically two dimensional. It was as if I my body had only front and a back. No awareness of the inside.

As I train, I am becoming more aware of the sacrum. It feels like a wedge. When I make the back stop and feel the "L" stretch it produces a line all the way up the back of the legs to the sacrum. It's as if the wedge of the sacrum and the feet are directly communicating. When I roll the hip to point the tail bone down and the wedge appears it lifts the arches of my feet and produces the back stop. What I do with the sacrum affects the whole body. It's as if I'm standing with the sacrum. It's like a keystone. I can relax so much more of my muscle witht this awarness.

A mechanism that I have observed is that when I move in this way the body is already coordinated. In the bending exercise, if I maintain the sensations prescribed, when I move one cavity the others respond with their apporpriate movement for what I am trying to do. I can pick any reference point such as the spine, the knees, or the feet and simly maintain the feeling from the feet up to the sacrum and from the sacrum up to the neck and if I move the reference the other bits move in concert. There is no sequence to it. They all go at the same time.