Alignment - Feel
None
- 00:00
- Now the obvious question is, okay, so posture, I get it.
- 00:03
- We should want to have great posture.
- 00:05
- But how, and the first thing I think is it's really helpful
- 00:09
- to have an internal kinesthetic sense
- 00:11
- for if you're well aligned and it's helpful to go
- 00:14
- to the end, to the boundaries.
- 00:15
- Um, and that and imagery,
- 00:17
- which is helpful is imagine you were holding a very heavy
- 00:20
- weight and it was stacked right on top of you.
- 00:22
- Or you see these, uh, images
- 00:23
- of like women in Africa carrying big jugs of,
- 00:26
- of water on their head.
- 00:27
- And if you were to carry something and someone's,
- 00:29
- or someone was pushing down on you very hard on your
- 00:31
- shoulders and you were standing like this, you could imagine
- 00:34
- that that pressure would create pain in your low back.
- 00:37
- And you'd say, oh, well how do I have to align myself so
- 00:41
- that when someone pushes down, straight down,
- 00:43
- it goes straight through my body?
- 00:45
- You can even get a weight and put it on your shoulders.
- 00:47
- You could ask someone to push down on
- 00:49
- you, and that would be helpful.
- 00:51
- Um, so for example, if I stand here, I feel in my own body
- 00:55
- that there's a little bit of pressure here in my low back.
- 01:01
- And, and that's
- 01:04
- because my pelvis is tucked wrong and my back is slung back.
- 01:08
- And as I change the orientation of my pelvis in my back,
- 01:14
- now I don't feel that pressure in my low back
- 01:16
- anymore or for example.
- 01:19
- And so that was pressure into here.
- 01:22
- And then as I get straight through here,
- 01:24
- that pressure goes away.
- 01:25
- Same thing if you look at, uh,
- 01:28
- my neck right here.
- 01:33
- You can see it's pretty acute
- 01:35
- that I'm gonna exaggerate even more,
- 01:37
- that my upper back is back and my head is forward.
- 01:41
- And if I were to straighten the upper back,
- 01:43
- you'd see my head is actually fo
- 01:45
- leaning forward quite a lot.
- 01:48
- And so right now my head, even though my eyes are level,
- 01:51
- it's going into my neck right here.
- 01:53
- And that's because my head is in front of my torso.
- 02:02
- And so then when you, uh, sort of align the neck better,
- 02:09
- then I feel that the, this pressure in the middle
- 02:12
- of my neck becomes much lighter.
- 02:15
- So kinesthetically, I'll ask the question as I pull,
- 02:17
- gently pull my head up and release it.
- 02:21
- I'll say, can I feel the weight go down through my, uh,
- 02:25
- my upper back, my hips
- 02:27
- and my feet without feeling a need to, to uh,
- 02:30
- particular amount of pressure in my low back
- 02:32
- or in my neck as an example?
