Meditation: I was at the studio yesterday. Moving.

I was at the studio yesterday. Moving. The music I was listening to was Hungry Ghosts. And it brought out a particular contemplative and connected type of movement in me. I enjoyed it. It inspired very lovely movements that oriented from the center of my skeleton and went out. Arms and legs moving out opposite each other, in synchrony. A lot of movement like that. And then I started exploring my bones and internal motivations starting with my hands and then moving through my whole body and with the sense of exploring this with other people and finding the movement qualities that come from moving from the hands back to the shoulders, versus from the shoulders to the hands. Very different. Moving from the elbows, the collar bones, the shoulder blades, the base of the occiput, down the spine, the ribcage, the sensations that arise from moving with/from the ribcage are so very different than the abdomen. The ribcage, depending on where I focused could be very blocky and container-y. But if I switched to the spine movements became sinewy and snakey. So interesting. And the abdomen, well, by that time I was becoming distracted and maybe a bit bored, but I think there in the abdomen it was more a gushy squishy sensation that really shot down to the base of the spine and sacrum and went snakey. While at the hips, SOOO much to explore at the hips. The bowl movement of the ishium and ilium, moving from the ASIS was such a neat experience. Then exploring the femur as it connects there, testing the movement using the psoas as originator, then the glutes. Different experiences of power and strength and emotions rising up. The knee as just this kind of locked walking place as well as the calf but the ankle and heel revealing so much curiosity. So curious. This way, that way, up, over, in between. Really in the base of the heel I felt like all the bones there were part of an investigation, a question, a curiosity. It was beautiful and fun. While moving like this, I would have to stop and write down experiences and directives. Such a satisfying combination of music and motion and attention.