Posts Tagged ‘x-ray anatomy’
a dance of opening and closing
Good morning! Today our focus is going to be on sensing the opening and closing of our joints! A dance of opening and closing is what keeps our muscles strong, balanced in strength and flexibility, and able to open and close the joints through full ranges of motion!
Opening is about reaching out… pushing out away from you… and expanding out away from a center.
Sense it! Give yourself a giant yawn, stretching your hands as far as they will comfortably go! Sense the opening of your chest, shoulders, elbows, and wrists! Now, sense opening in your legs… Let one foot reach out for a giant leap-like stretch and sense the opening of the knee joint! Next, reach as high as you can, like you are changing a light bulb. You may even go up on the tips of your toes. Sense the opening of your ankle joint, the front of your hip joint, along the spine, the side of your ribcage, your shoulder & armpit, and perhaps even your neck! Openings can be sensed in any joint of the body… Big joints like your knee (opening your knee to kick outward)… small joints like your knuckles (spreading your fingers wide to show “5″)… Sense. Reach. Yawn. Stretch. Expand. Yearn. Open…
happy dancing bones!
Hello! Today our focus will be on dancing our bones! “How will we do this,” you ask? Great question!
Step 1: See Your Bones
Put on your imaginary X-Ray Goggles (yep, it helps to act it out), and v-i-s-u-a-l-i-z-e your bones. SEE the bones of your feet… your shinbones… knee caps… thighbones… pelvis… ribcage… skull… vertebrae of the spine… collarbones… shoulder blades… upper arm bones… forearm bones… and even the bones of your hands and fingers! You can use a mirror or not… You can actually look at your body (for example, look down at your hand right now), or not… The real key is to use your imagination… Simply “X-Ray” yourself and seeeeee the shapes and sizes of your bones.
