The Art of Sitting & Standing

It’s an alchemy of sorts the transformation of sitting to standing. Going from one state to another. It’s a common enough gesture for most of us that we needn’t give it any more heed than the thought of initiation. Think it and we’re there. Stop to unpack that thought and a world of complexity opens up.

Sitting for instance is safe, stable and low down. Whereas standing is perilous, unstable and high up. Moreover these two states are wildly different compositions of the body, one being closed joints and angular, the other utilising open joints and length.

So how do we do it? And what goes on in the doing?

This 90 minute foray will introduce several Awareness Through Movement explorations which will elucidate the thought of standing into an act of under-standing.

 We will look at: 

• How to organise the 5 kg bowling ball that sits on our necks
• How to sense and harness our Centre of Gravity as it shifts over our Base of Support
• How the pelvis can rotate from two different places in the hip joints and why this is useful to know
• The experience of being the unmovable object and A reed in the wind and
• How substituting a stable for unstable equilibrium is perhaps our greatest act of liberation and indeed nothing short of an act of alchemy.

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