When the kinesthetic sense guides us, movement is motivated from internal feel- ing. Tension, constriction, stiffness, and strain become the cues we respond to so that our style of exercise or movement is a kind of ongoing physical therapy. Pleasure and relief from discomfort are the rewards. Increasingly movement will be initiated from within, from a source of natural wis- dom. One learns to move more smoothly; slowness can be a virtue. Speed and furious exercise will appear, if not funny, then a lit- tle insane. The ethics of hardness and drive are outgrown and softness in body texture and softness in personal style seem more in order. The inevitable good sense in relax- ation and being one’s natural self becomes increasingly apparent, even unavoidable. The whole fabric and style of life becomes an expression of our bodies and the feeling we have of the inside of our bodies. This is certainly a new order of things when the body sense, the kinesthetic sense, becomes our guide.
Allan Saltzman is a writer, yoga practitioner, and inventor of a line of therapeutic yoga tools that are available through his two web sites:
YogaTools.com and
LazyManYoga.com. He is the author of a number of books about yoga including: The Belly and Its Power; The Healing Way; and The Baby Boomers’ Yoga Book. The above essay is from his publica- tion The Hip Series, Kinesthetic Stretches for the Hips and Pelvis available through his websites. See ad on page 27.
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