Taking Flight, with Debbie Rosas.

Touch is our most immediate, pervasive, and intimate sense for accessing the preverbal wisdom of the body. The sense of touch is something we experience throughout our whole body, from the surface of our skin to deep within our gut. All of our other senses that include sight, sound, smell, and taste are experienced through our specialized organs.

As human beings we touch to learn and know how to discover both pain and pleasure.  As we develop, we touch to help our bodies heal, both giving and receiving comfort. When we hurt, our first instinct is to touch. When we want to know what someone is experiencing, we ask, “How do you feel?” When something moves us deeply we say, “We are touched.” 

You have wings! And, just as Leonardo da Vinci once gave a great deal of his creative attention to the flight of birds; we need to give our attention to the essence of flight in our bodies and our lives. 

Healthy upper extremities are developed through the cooperation of the hand, arm, and shoulder girdle comprised of the individual parts of which there are ten fingers, two hands, four forearm bones, two elbow joints, two upper arm bones, two shoulder joints, and two shoulder blades. Using the upper extremities is a strong core and spine, together with agile and mobile shoulder blades that can easily slide and glide over the back of the ribcage.

An exteroceptor is a sensory receptor that allows the body to receive external stimuli, such as that which the body experiences through the soles of the feet.  An interoceptor is a sensory receptor that allows the body to receive internal stimuli from inside the body, specifically from the body’s organs. A proprioceptor is a sensory receptor mostly found within muscles, tendons, joints, and inner ears that allow the body to receive stimuli from within the body about the position and movement of the body.

We need to give attention to what connects us through touch and attention for different ways of sensing life through three sensory receptors of a primal connection we have to ourselves, to each other, and to our world, through sensation science.

Together, these three help create a connection between the upper extremities and the lower body, while silently influencing thought, feeling, and chakra energy.  The upper extremities teach us to use our hands and fingers to direct those energies, which helps us to focus and develop mindful knowledge for our whole being.  In movement, upper extremities help us to learn to optimize and blend The Body’s Way of movement with our own body’s way.

In Nia, through the integration of hand movements with your pelvis, chest, head, and spine movements, as you create direction through the movement of your hands in and out from the center of your body; you will stimulate Dynamic Ease for greater neck and shoulder comfort.  And as you blend Mobility, Stability, Agility, and Strength, and Balance you will support your essential body’s way interactions between bones, joints, and tissues.

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