The 'Shoulder-stand'
Floor-entrance (FEN) & floor-exit (FEX) patterns
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3m 57s
THE WHAT:
The ‘shoulder-stand’ establishes an essentially diagonal axis of balance, from the base shoulder through the opposite side hip and leg. It is initially supported by the free hand planted on the floor, although can later be incrementally removed as alignment and balance calibration develop, whilst the other arm, pressing into the ground, facilitates a wider base atop which the form can be supported.
Whilst awareness of structural alignment is both required and develops through practice of the form, the intention here, far from simply the attainment an isolated, aesthetic “trick”, is to develop the shoulder-stand form as an available ‘zero-point’ which to add to the repertoire of already-developed and developing movement “nodes”. As elsewhere noted, a ‘zero-point’ is essentially a static form affording high transitional potential, notably between movements and levels in space. As a “node”, they serve as “hubs” of high optionality through which movement/s can be passed through and connected.
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