Uprighting

The first part of the learning process is to start paying close attention to your habitual ways of sitting and standing.

The Habitual Explorations will encourage you to bring an active intelligence to your daily activities, to consciously witness how you are committing your body weight. You will begin to see how committing weight backwards compels the muscular straining and skeletal distortion that keeps you functional and seeing what it is you want to see. You’ve spent decades without witnessing. You can't continue to sit back in chairs and sofas without giving it a second thought. This will keep you mired in habit. But giving it a second thought changes everything, enabling transformation.

You will start noticing that you not only commit your body weight backwards in sitting, but in standing as well ... often out to the side so that you end up standing on one leg. You will start noticing all of the bodily adjustments that happen in reaction to your mis-committing your body weight ... adjustments that have always been happening in the background. The Habitual Explorations will help you bring them into the foreground, make them conscious.

Practicing the Habitual Explorations

The Habitual Explorations are to be practiced both (1) during the course of your normal, daily activities, and (2) in a more laboratory-like setting, with a web camera in place that allows you to see yourself in profile, while listening to the guiding audio instructions.

The Habitual Explorations can be explored in any situation you are in. You have spent all but the first few years of your life not paying any attention to how you commit your weight or how you upright as you sit and stand. To re-learn innate uprighting, you need to become aware of your habitual patterns. In your daily routine, you will have opportunity-after-opportunity to tune in. Without recognizing how you are committing body weight NOW, you won't be able to change. It is a challenge ... but one that pays big dividends.

The Habitual Explorations should also be practiced in a more laboratory-like setting, at least 10 minutes a day. It is essential that you spend time giving your full attention, watching yourself in profile on your computer monitor while at the same time listening to the guiding instructions.

In the lessons, we feature stool or chair sitting since it is the most prevalent form of sitting. It enables us to use the full extension power of the ankle, knee and hip joints, as well as the powerful plantar muscles underneath the longitudinal arch.

REQUIRED MATERIALS (Not Included)

• Laptop Computer
• Webcam
• USB Extension Cord
• Tripod
• Chair & Stool With A Firm Flat Seat