Tensegrity Imagery X

[Fairbanks]

This imagery exercise was adopted from Eric Franklins book, Dynamic Alignment through Imagery. I liked it's associative benefit to internalize tensegrity, and is great way to explore the resilence of our spines.

First off get focused, by trying to think of nothing and relaxing your mind(add Intu-Flow here), or otherwise follow along.

"Ruber Band Tensegrity
Seat yourself in an upright position without leaning against the back of your chair. Think of your spine as a tensegrity mast. Imagine the connections between the individual vertebra (spacers) to be numerous small rubber bands. These rubber bands maintain the upright integrity of the spine by keeping the vertebrate aligned on top of each other. Allow your spine to bend in any direction stretching some of the rubber bands. As they contract, the rubber bands restore the spine to its original alignment. The spine is not rigid, but bobs back and forth for a while until coming back to its full upright resting position. Repeat the exercise in another direction, maintaining awareness of the reboundlike quality of the return to center. "

Enjoy,
Jesse Fairbanks, CST IOTA

[KD Jones]

Nice. I had a spontaneous experience of something like my results from this several months ago, though I didn't associate it with tensegrity at the time. I was experimenting with variations on Intu-Flow motions, and suddenly had this strange, broad, peaceful sense of the limitless possibilities for motion from the spine working in balance with the rest of the body. I remember feeling as though my spine were full of light, or like sunshine and flowers had been poured down my spine. Sounds spacey as all get out, but it was one of the most powerful and peaceful - simultaneously - sensations I can remember ever having.

[Fairbanks]

I am fond of those moments. I've been returning to the material in that book to aid in my CST practice. Cautiously mapping those moments. Its those moments of imagery and say epiphanies like the ones described that is like the carrot at the end of the stick. Anyways, I recently had a great moment with intu-flow practice in the sensory depervation of a lava tube in Bend OR.

Cheers