Wendy LeBlanc-Arbuckle | How Does Your “Embodied” SWAN in the Pilates Matwork Build… Baby and Big SWAN on the PUSH THRU BAR | 512-467-8009 | [ Ссылка ]
How are you “Setting Yourself Up” before you exercise? Is your “SET UP” one of tension or ease? By asking these questions, you can see if you are allowing “Gravity” to support you, which creates “effort with ease”….or, if you harden your abdominals, tighten your gluts or pull your shoulders down, you are “setting yourself up” by beginning your movement with “tension”.
I am joined today by Jae Hoon, a professional dancer and Pilates Practitioner at our studio. Jae Hoon is discovering how to release long held “tension” habits which have been the source of injury in his dance career.
Jae Hoon: “I am noticing the huge difference between SWAN coming from muscular force, which creates stress in my low back and cuts off spatial and energetic connections in my Central Core.”
Our 3Core Connections Perspective is a powerful way of getting in touch with how the Lower Body’s GROUNDING (Lower Core) works with the Upper Body’s LIFT, SUSPENSION and REACH (Upper Core)…through the support of the Central Core’s BREATH!
Let’s take a look at SWAN on the MAT and how it can build to SWAN DIVE:
By looking along the floor and up the wall, Jae Hoon is moving from his natural spinal extension looking from SOFT EYES which widens his chest, spine and hips. His “Down the Back” release of his shoulder blades, sitting bones/tailbone to the tripod of his feet, allows a natural uplift to occur from his “Up the Front” support of inner ankle, inner thighs, front of his pelvic floor along the front of his spine to his inner ear.
Jae Hoon: “ I have a feeling of VASTNESS – so spatial”
As I give Jae Hoon a little support along the front of his spine around his belly suspenders, he gains a deeper awareness of his “Shoulder Blades waterfalling down to meet his Internal Belly Suspenders lifting up the front”….which is a deeper understanding of an updated “NEW POWERHOUSE BREATH” support.
From this place of deep support, Jae Hoon can reach one arm forward and up into SWAN DIVE and you can see the BIOTENSEGRITY of his hand and head to foot connection!
From there we look at BABY and BIG SWAN on the Cadillac Push Thru Bar:
For BABY SWAN, as Jae Hoon bends his elbows, he widens his chest and the bar meets his head lifting…he inhales there, and then exhales to release down…rooting his arms to his breathing spine! Be sure to do this to both sides.
To lift higher into BIG SWAN, after bending his elbows and feeling a widening spatial awareness, his shoulder blades rotate naturally allowing his arms to fully extend up into BIG SWAN. His Belly Suspenders lengthen and widen to allow CORE COORDINATION throughout his whole body from hand and head to feet. WHAT A LUSCIOUS FEELING and GREAT WAY TO WORKOUT!!
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