Physical Intelligence - Day 43
The corresponding comment from last year was a good reminder about an area which I have not focused on which my flexibility. I am not flexible at all, and this is more than just engaging stretches for warm up, this is creating a more supple body if it is possible. I possess very poor flexibility and while I engaged in practices like yoga and movement video's - that all stopped after the prior 90 days. Thin does not equal flexible and when I saw the "Fat Femme" video and splits video I realized flexibility is independent of how the body looks :
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CityVP Manjit
8 years ago#4
Thanks Deb regarding insight about Esther Gokhale. I love the moniker given to her as the "The Posture Guru of Silicon Valley". Together with Sara's introduction to Moshe Feldenkrais, this opens two entirely new vistas for me and in so doing has added missing definition from what I personally think of physical intelligence. What both of you have highlighted including Ali Anani's mention of consciousness flexibility is the movement from imagination to action. If I think about it, what motivated me more in the past weeks has been associating meaning with physicality. Discovering these new vistas has physically infused me, but physical infusion can quickly be negated by inertia of getting sidetracked by the day-to-day. That is the kind of thing I want to become more physically intelligent about - so thank you to you and Sara Jacobovici today !
CityVP Manjit
8 years ago#3
Yes, I don't think there is any irony in seeing that people rigid in their attitude are also physically rigid, instead of viewing this as ironic as many people maybe inclined to do, you have a more nuanced approach here, which is that this is entirely a practical manner. In terms of fixing ourselves, that is a rather masculine mindset born of memes created in the industrial age. Once we begin to understand our connection with a machine-centered past, we can begin the journey to a human-centred future. In that regard this is something that is a central highway of connection for our collective appreciation of each other here.
CityVP Manjit
8 years ago#2
Thanks Sara, I have not heard of the Feldenkrais Method and I will look at this in Day 44. What I can see is that it fits fully with physical intelligence - where the emphasis is on the word "intelligence". I am going through these video's right now and will document this in #44. Thank you also for the Olena Nitefor link, I like her background drawing on anatomy, kinesiology, movement studies and dance. Just the awareness of these methods is an interesting learning.
CityVP Manjit
8 years ago#1
The key for me is that physical flexibility is associated with the word grounded. It is surprising how much of our lives is not grounded and exists in thought. Once we are grounded we can deal with presence and from there is the compass to all the other ingredients that make up life in terms of living. At that point the spiritual and cognitive begins to inform the physical rather than the physical empower us towards the spiritual and cognitive - you can look at this as the journey from fuel to feel.