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"Corrected-sitting exercise (Tadashi Za)" in the cross legged sitting is another exercise for checking and modifying the vertebrae from the neck to the sitting bones (ischia). Because we are not very much sensible to our back area, and it is not easy to discriminate each part of the back area without being touched, the arm standing exercise should be practiced rst as an easier exercise, followed by "corrected-sitting exercise" after developing your sensibility enough in your back area.
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your arm weight for an encounter with the god of gravity in terms of Noguchi Taiso.
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9. Continue lifting your arms, raising your shoulder blades o the oor. 10. Stretch your arms all the way upward. Keep this position for a while. 11. Release tension from your shoulders and allow your shoulder blades to rest on the oor while your arms are kept straight upward. 12. Feel your shoulder blades on the oor and try to locate the point on which the weight of the arm rested. *Most people nd it dicult to "feel their shoulder blades". I would add the following explanation: Your shoulder blades are like a foundation upon which all of the weight of your arm weighs. It is also advisable that the instructor hold the lying person s arm and give a slight pressure toward his/her shoulder blade so as to perceive the point more clearly.
13. Try to suspend your arms up in the air with as little muscle tension as possible. Keep your arms in this position for a while. (Fig.2) 14. When you feel tired, release tension from your shoulders and lower your elbows to the oor gradually. Feel how heavy your arms are while
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lowering your arms. 15. Rest your elbows on the oor. Then, release tension from your elbows, allowing your forearms to lower gradually. 16. Rest your arms on the oor. Feel that your body is more relaxed and tranquil. 17. Repeat the exercise a few times. Try to keep your arms up with as little muscle tension as possible.
If you have any interesting ndings or discoveries about the relationship between the weight of a body part and its movement patterns, you can proceed to at least one of the three courses: i. Keep enhancing your sensibility deeper and deeper by using much smaller movements. (toward the direction of Sensory Awareness, Alexander Technique, Feldenkrais Method,etc.) ii. Allow your arm(s) to dance by dropping or leaning/ twisting by using the arm weight. (toward the movements based on Noguchi Gymnastics' ideas) iii. Taste sentiments or emotions within a body part. (My elbows feel sad when extended...because of the accident and the operation... Toward psycho-somatically embedded emotions.) When I do Butoh dance, I feel that I am or my body is tossed about by those embodied emotions and/or unfamiliar feelings or impulses. Most of them are not so distinctly articulated, and I would shake or
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twitch my body impulsively as if pushing them out to my body surface, or they would endanger whole my existence. An authentic Butoh time...
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