Innate Explorations
Video Demonstrations + Guided Audio Recordings
- Recognizing How Sitting-Back Shapes the Spine.
- Engaging the Strong Part of the Foot.
- Getting Weight into the Feet
- Bouncing
- A Word of Encouragement
- Adding Oomph to Your Bouncing
- A Deep Dive into the Flexing/Extending Cycle
- Establishing a Flexing/Extending Groove
- Extending the Pelvis & Lower Torso to Just Short of Vertical
- Accuracy
- Two Units Up, One Unit Down
- Lifting the Hangover
- Lifting & Dropping - Noticing the Extra Pressure
- Two Units Up, One Unit Down
- Changing Your Downward Trajectory
The ability to upright with ease and efficiency is deep within our DNA.
We all employed innate uprighting as infants and toddlers. We needed no instruction in how to get it working. It happened organically.
But after spending a lifetime of constantly committing our body weight backwards without awareness, innate uprighting needs to be recovered; this is difficult. Our conscious participation in the learning process is required. The first order of business is to recognize the spinal distortion that has been created through years of sitting-back.
In constantly dropping the pelvis and lower torso backwards, our upper spines had to constantly bend forward, so that we could continue to see and relate to the world out in front of us. When we dropped the lower spine back a little bit, the upper spine bent forward a little bit. The more we dropped the lower spine backwards, the more the upper spine had to bend forward. This is what has created our big C-curve slump.
In the Innate Explorations we say goodbye to committing body weight backwards. You will choose to drop the pelvis and lower torso straight down to earth ... while keeping the shape of the spine the same as when you were sitting back against the chair support. You don't want to be straightening your upper spine according to habit. The Innate Explorations will teach you how to do it constructively.
In dropping the pelvis and lower torso straight down, you will discover that your head ends up way out over your knees. This will feel awkward. But it is an essential starting place. It will put a lot of pressure on your feet. Your feet are not used to taking any body weight in sitting. Bringing the feet alive is a key aspect of the Innate Explorations.
Many years ago, we were horizontal creatures, with our front legs way forward of our hind legs. Over a long period of time, we learned to lift our front body weight up and back, toward the vertical, with our hind legs eventually doing all the work.
But in habitual sitting we go way past the vertical. To lift ourselves into verticality from this anchored-back position requires uprighting activity far removed from the innate ... employing ilio psoas muscles and large erector spinae muscles in the back that have not evolved for this purpose. That's why no one can sit up straight for any length of time.
Through the Innate Explorations you will learn to bounce yourself up from the front. Efficiently. In a manner that can be sustained. It's fun. But it is anything but a "quick fix." Continual growth and development require continual application. It is a challenging process ... but it is very doable ... with motivation and persistence.
