Ever since I fractured my pelvis just a few years ago, I’ve learned so much from what I feel inside my body and what I see before my eyes today that is in complete opposition to what I also know is true about how I moved before – the habitual patterns I developed over my lifetime to keep me standing to survive but without substance and force and pain with every inch of movement. It’s the morning rituals that include a presspot of coffee, a yoga mat, my Hyperice Mini Sphere, a yoga strap and a yoga block with the random guest appearances include a couple of lacrosse balls, half domes, some therabands and a magic circle. I never plan on anything except a little body recalibration, a few sips of my coffee and noticing then logging what my body feels like at the start of my day. Sometimes it’s pretty fast, maybe 10 minutes, tops. Lately, my brain has been racing then I start trying to catch the rest of me up to it. But I’ve since learned that I owe me a little quieting down before I let the gate to the race open. This is me time for the most purest and joyful movement discoveries and movement evolutions I gift me, daily. I started recording these new movement patterns like journal entries, my evidence of my ever changing body and connection to the ground – my force, my substance, my will.
This kind of discovery in what I’ve decided to call Balance Prep is at the core of me – literally and figuratively. The pelvis happens to be at the center of us. It’s where we “generate force” – dan tian. It’s everything because I had known for a while, didn’t have any – just a whisper of me, I was. It’s everything because the most fortunate and unfortunate thing happened when I broke me into 3 me’s. I got a do over, not a redo. I got the chance to LEARN from the very scratch of me without all the hindrances of muscle coordination habits to slow me down. No muscle tone means nothing is knotted up or stretched or pinched. There was nothing but connective tissue and the shape of me. It’s amazing what 15 weeks of being told, DO NOT MOVE, can do to a person who is a MOVER by makeup.
The hamstring muscles attach onto the pelvis at the sits bones and the inner thigh muscles attach to the pubic bone, both at the proximal points of the pelvis.
The heels of your feet! I’m constantly fascinated by the relationship of the heels of my feet and my sits bones. They really want to be together! This is a concept and a sentence I say every day to every single one of my clients and anybody else who is in ear’s distance of me! I start with my sits bones and heels kissing and like magnets they continue to want to kiss, to be together!
I’m also fascinated by the cantilevers of my body – how our joints connect at least two parts of our skeletal system, and how they enable (or have hindered my movement when I was not moving well). Cantilevers for balance exercises! All the cantilevers are pumping themselves up by the rise of the arms from down by your sides then out in front of you. UP! Everything UP. But then there’s the force that the pumping of the cantilever can make when strong – both concentrically and eccentrically, moving in harmony and not fighting.
These are my superpowers. Everything moving forward and up. Every single move, every pump up of the cantilever, a measure of my vitality – my inner force for all to see, sure…but really for me. I am in awe of my own super powers I never knew I could have.