Muscles and meridians
The manipulation of shape
Contractile field model - Movement
Archetypal postures - Rest or repose
Dolphins
Forward and back
🐠 fish
Side to side
🐵 monkey
Sidebending
Human 😊
Rotation which allows us to contralaterally twist
Sitting cross legged
How we move leads to a change in shape
Decoding the meridian map
animals and movement
Contractile field explores the innate patterning found in the neuromm system
the cf model is seen as being a sense organ, which is similarly applied in the meridian map
Kneeling Japanese style
Lying supine
Lying prone
Sitting cross legged
Squatting
These postures go back millions of years to when we were apes
Second to postures is rising from the floor. Erectorcise exercises are ways to rise from the floor
Third is walking on two feet. Comes at a consequence as we have moved from four to two feet
Go barefeet where possible
Emergent lines of shape control p5
Occurs in response to pain, a natural reflex to being burnt, stung or pricked, a noxious stimulus