Movements - Quotes by Mme S

Behind the visible movement there is another movement, one which cannot be seen, which is very strong, on which the outer movement depends. If this inner movement were not so strong, the outer one would not have any action.

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You must constantly divide your attention between something which is higher than yourself and your movement. You always lose yourself in one or the other. As soon as you stop making this effort, you become identified with the movement.

You must consider these Movements as a condition, an exceptional one given to you to work on your attention.

In so dividing your attention, you are filling the place that you can fill. One day you may be capable of more, but today, this is your place.

You do not realize enough that your attention is your only chance. Without it you can do nothing.

Usually you think about your movement, but you do not do it. You maintain your thought on the movement, and then when it is the time to do it you give up, and the movement is done, no matter how, without you.

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The thought must have its own center of gravity; it cannot just be either here or there. We must find this center of gravity. It is the same for the body; if it is not centered, no movement will be possible. It is the same for the feeling.

These Movements are designed to enable us to pass from one center of gravity to another; it is the shift that creates the state. The gesture, the movement, is what is important, not the attitudes.

Bangalore work weekend

The work period in Bangalore was surpirsingly event ful. Except that I tried a combination of the arms stretching exercise with creation of sexual energy and using the ashwini mudra drew up the energy up the spine. Its crazy. I dont know if im doing the right thing. But holding the hands on the side and its pain and the counter act by the pleasure of the excitement seemed a good idea.

Its increasingly as a practice key to keep the I AM sensation as much as possible. By breathing in as I and breathing out in the whole body or solar plexus as AM.

The BIGGEST interesting new mystery for me is finding the impulse of movement. So when I walk, I just have a thought and my legs response. Can I find that impulse inside that makes the transfer from thought to action? Where does it happen? I need to find it. In the body. I need to at any cost.

""In the Movements the important thing is not the positions, but the impulse, the energy from one position to another. And nobody can teach you that. You have to watch yourself"
- Jeanne de Salzmann