Responsive Balance
To find balance, your body has three main sensing systems constantly negotiating how to keep you upright and happy. Your feet track weight and surface changes, your inner ear monitors head position and movement, and your eyes scan the horizon. When these systems get at cross-purposes, balance becomes effortful and unstable and the brain and eyes work overtime. This four-class series explores how these systems can collaborate more effectively, using aware, gentle movement explorations that reveal the fascial connections underlying coordination. Each class combines a short Awareness Through Movement® lesson with time for discussion and integration. We'll investigate balance from different starting points—feet, pelvis, recovery patterns—while discovering how a responsive rather than rigid pelvis supports dynamic stability in all situations. Perfect for anyone dealing with balance challenges, dizziness, or who is simply curious about how their body organizes itself in space.
Tuesdays at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time
September 2nd / 23rd
October 7th / 14th
Lesson One, September 2nd
Here is one of my favorite videos of a ‘Functional Integration’ (the hands-on version of how I teach). I’m posting it for you because it is a partial answer to Aimé’s possibility of using her ‘good’ leg to teach her ‘hurting’ leg. At minute 3.54 Mia starts a brilliant exploration where she goes to the student’s ‘good’ side and has the student recreate the tension that normally occurs on the ‘bad’ side and then let it go. Then she helps the student transfer that letting-go wisdom to the ‘bad’ side. You could do that! I would suggest doing something to warm you up—like the tape from Balance Class 1—and then try this.
Do you want more about the concept of skeletalness? Here’s Fred Astaire .
If you are interested in breathwork, here’s Val’s info. I just had a class with her this morning and at the end I looked radiant! Not as important as how I felt inside—lovely—, but sure is a good indicator.