Para-gliding, anatomy course and Rosen!
I will admit I have been quite terrified of writing a blog. As such I’m grateful yet again to the Get a Life Fund for nudging me gently into doing one. I returned from holiday with my family in France to a wonderfully colourful weekend of Anatomy Study the 4th and 5th of September, as part of my Rosen Method training. Louisa, physiotherapist of fifteen years and Rosen Method Practitioner for over a year, teaches brilliantly, and we spent two days studying the digestive system and the pelvis area. Although my head was full to overflowing by the end, some tiny crumbs of information had found their way to sink in gently. Amongst them: that purely and simply through gentle (Rosen) touch, a person can be so profoundly affected, and for instance that touching a foot can dramatically affect, through all the connective tissues, somewhere much further up in the body .
On my holiday I had the most amazing chance to para-glide, near Millau, strapped to the front of the ‘pilot’. Part of the feeling of sheer wonder as we floated way, way higher than an eagle, was the vague awareness that, just by manipulation of one or two tiny strings attached to the billowing silks, we were able to choose whether to climb higher and higher on the invisible column of air – or not! The difference that the manipulation of the strings made was between going for the rocks or freely climbing the air. Later on (during a Rosen session I was having myself) it struck me that this was such a perfect analogy: how gentle and almost imperceptible freeing up of a tiny part oneself can affect and free up the rest in such a dramatic way.
I can’t wait for the next Rosen training module in London, when my internship will start ‘officially’. And then in October, there will be the International Rosen Congress near Oxford, for the first time in the UK. If it weren’t for the Fund I would not have been able to do any of the anatomy, the training module or the Congress, and I am just so excited to be able to! The intensive module will be in Belsize Park, just next to Air Lyndhurst Studios, a strange but interesting reminder of my musician life. I’m really happy to say that since the last blog entry, a small but steady trickle of musicians are coming to try a session as a taster, and again I’m so happy that the Fund has enabled me to offer that.
So, here’s to the next Rosen training, 25 September- 2 October (my birthday!!) Look forward to writing all about it!
Posted by Damaris on September 11th, 2010.
October birthdays eh!
Happy birthday Damaris and well done.
You write extreemly well and the enthusiam you feel comes bubbling through.
The next Rosen training, 25 September- 2 October (my birthday!!)
I’m looking forward to reading all about it!
Donald in France