In this class, we continue our exploration of anchoring our belly centre to the centre of the earth and initiating movement from the centre of the earth as a way to enter the experience of what I call shapeshifting – distributing the initiation of movement throughout our inner volume
On the floor, we begin on elbows and knees, exploring a seesaw movement – pulling and pushing along the skin of the earth with the forearms and lower legs to tip ourselves forwards and back.
We play with side-bending on elbows and knees, then come up onto hands and knees to explore rounding and arching, tucking the toes under, and moving towards a squat and up to standing.
Through all of this, the belly centre stays connected to the centre of the earth – the line connecting them becoming our anchor as we change orientation.
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00:00:00 – Arriving in walking
Noticing how we feel – the emotional tone of being here and how we sense ourselves present here, in this place and in this body
Sensing the air we move through and the support of the earth with every step
Bringing attention to the belly centre – sensing its connection to the centre of the earth
Reading our walking as a changing of shape of one whole volume
00:03:20 – Standing Explorations and Walking
Listening to our standing – sensing weight and support flowing through our structure – inviting a sense of mystery about what is inside our skins
Playing with the image of support like water flowing up from the centre of the earth, through us and out through the top of the head – becoming a human fountain
Extending our attention along the line connecting the centre of the earth to an imaginary star above
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Exploring the asymmetry of preparing to take a step – shifting our axis from side to side – arriving at the middle through sensation
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Turning around our centre axis – initiating from the eyes, from the feet, from both together – same amount of turning, same speed, but lighter and lighter – dissolving our body into the space
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Moving the belly centre forwards and back through the interaction of the feet with the skin of the earth – rounding and arching – sensing how the belly centre stays anchored to the centre of the earth
Moving the belly centre side to side from the feet
Circling – channelling support through us and shaping how it exits through the top of the head and the fingertips
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Folding and unfolding without pushing down into the earth – shapeshifting our way up rather than levering ourselves away from the earth
Stepping with one foot in front – shifting the belly centre forwards and back through the soles of the feet – sensing the delicacy of connecting through the skin
00:39:40 – Floor work
Sensing our inner volume and how we balance on the earth behind us – allowing our asymmetries to be there
Playing with the image of the breath like a wave through an internal sea – sensing the skin stretching and relaxing throughout its surface
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Kneeling and playing with moving our belly centres from side to side – then initiating by rolling the lower legs on the floor
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On elbows and knee exploring a seesaw movement of the head towards the floor or the pelvis towards the soles of the feet
Pulling through the forearms brings the forehead towards the floor, pushing back through the forearms tips the pelvis down – sensing how the lower legs push and pull in the opposite direction
The belly centre rising and falling with this movement – two interlocking triangles around the belly centre: the feet connecting to the top of the head, the hands connecting to the tail
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On elbows and knees exploring side-bending – one side gets longer, the other gets shorter – generating the movement also from the interaction of our skin with the skin of the earth
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On hands and knees pulling and pushing along the surface of the earth through the hands – rounding and arching with the belly centre
Ttucking the toes under as we round, unfolding them as we arch – then the opposite coordination
Playing with one elbow on the floor, one arm straight – sensing how the rounding and arching moves through us asymmetrically
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Tucking the toes under and walking the hands back towards a squat – shapeshifting our way up to standing without pushing down into the earth
01:12:00 – Returning to standing and walking
Re-tuning our centre axis to the line of gravity – reinhabiting the image of the human fountain
Letting the arms float up – exploring our kinesphere – everywhere around us we can reach from our belly centre with our touch – watching our hands, then bringing our attention out into the room through pointing beyond the kinesphere
Stepping – connecting the soles of the feet to the skin of the earth – the belly centre always anchored to the centre of the earth
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