Structural Energetics in Zero Balancing Bodywork by Alan Hext

Author:Alan Hext
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780857013323
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: 2019-10-19T16:00:00+00:00

THE SACRUM

When fulcrums are placed on the sacrum close by the sacroiliac articulation, with the client lying on their back, it can allow the sacrum to ‘float’ in the pelvic bowl. As this is in the centre of the person, there is potential for this awareness to be experienced within their whole structure and energy, all the way up to the head and down to the feet. Here, in the middle of the length of the body and at this midpoint, it is possible for a person to rest and float in their entire body-mind.

The accurate placement of this fulcrum and the quality of touch are vital factors in whether this occurs, to be well placed in relation to the centre of gravity in the pelvis and on the sacrum close to the adjoining iliac bones. The fulcrum may benefit from subtle modulation of the proportions of structure and energy. Following its initial introduction with the Zero Balancer’s hands well anchored on the ZB table, the practitioner holds the bone of the sacrum simultaneously with any pulsation of the energy flowing palpably at their fingers. Maintaining these both together, very slightly, they sink down into the ZB table, allowing a ‘breathing space’ for the client to drop into. The practitioner is providing support and an opportunity to experience the nature of Water in the power of this element within themselves.

When the pelvis is not balanced, we do not have the upward thrust that creates zero balance, the sense of weightlessness that can be experienced in the body. When the pelvis is aberrated, it does not allow this equipoise, this tranquillity in experience that a balanced pelvis shows. The combined forces acting on a balanced pelvis are in a moment of inertia near zero. It is always dynamic in action, but the forces balance out to near zero. (Feitis 1978, p.54)

In the practice of Taiji Quan you may hear the instruction to ‘sink and relax’ as you are standing and moving, vertically upright. The Chinese character being referred to is song (鬆). This has a meaning of dropping down into yourself in alignment, celebrating the power with which water descends without resistance. This activity of non-activity allows knots to naturally untie themselves and release blocks and unnecessarily held tensions we may be completely unaware of. The etymology of song contains the radical for hair, here with the image of the hair unfurled, being able to move in natural freedom. Standing vertically you are not slumping; rather, you are resting into the support of water. Water allows minimal compression. You are sinking in aligned relationship, connecting above and below, heaven and earth, through your living form. This stimulates a piezoelectric response, generating a bio-electrical flow that can benefit bone and bone marrow. You are neither collapsing nor being ‘weighed down’ by gravity; rather, the experience as you continue to move is of floating and a lightness in your body-mind.

You are literally ‘well connected’ and attracting the subtle to dwell within your being.

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