There are 206 bones in our human body, in which have its own unique form and size. Calcium and exercise are important, particularly for the bones of the elderly or women who are highly active, such as dancers.
Articulating the bones We have so many bones in our body! During our everyday lives, we don’t take notice of it nor do we give much attention to the different bones in our body. Therefore, this exercise was actually somewhat of a challenge.
I began the exercise with the articulation of my toes. Believe it or not… it required much concentration! Due to the fact that I don’t usually articulate my phalanges (bones of the toes), one phalange-at-a-time, I was not familiar with its movement and articulation. As I moved up the leg, to the ankles and knees, it became less challenging. Rotating my ankles is something I do often, for simple stretching and stress releasing and therefore, didn’t require too much effort. My hips however, were not stretched enough to rotate and maneuver to its full potential. However, as I included my pelvis along with my hips, everything was so much FUN. The body chose to move in all directions, qualities, speed, and levels. The pelvis also helped stimulate the spine and caused its undulation. This process was similar to a roller coaster ride; causing a domino effect on the rest of the body.
This entire process, starting with the skull and jaw, resulted in the same domino effect (from the top down). With this, I experienced the connections in the different parts of my body and how one affects the other.
(I can now understand the difficulty of ISOLATING different areas of your body. Especially, when there’s such an intense connection with one other.)
Moving from bone Moving body parts with the bone, requires a lot of my attention! As a dancer and someone who loves physical activities and working out, I pay much attention to muscular movements, activities, growth, and strength; forgetting about its bony aspect. This exercise was not something hard to isolate and focus on, but rather took a lot of effort. Because we typically work on the development of muscles, we forget about our bones. This exercise brought me back to the realization and appreciation of our bone and its structures.
Articulating the Bones It's crazy articulating movement from the toes and working your way up the foot. I had a hard time starting a movement with my toes and trying to spread my toes so that in hopes to separate the movements of each toes. My middle toes all want to move together!!! When we started movements with our ankles, it brought me back to pointe class when we did ankle warm-ups and strengthening exercises. We would lay on our back just like this exercise, but do the alphabet in the air with our ankles on each foot to get a full range of motion and warm them up. As the hips moved, i felt the movement of the spine side to side, or curved and extended. The floor was massaging the back of my spine during these movements. Then, i began to initiate with my ribcage and found that the ribs and hips usually like to move together along with the spine movements as well.
My shoulder movements allowed me to feel the different ways my scapulas moved on the ground. When i shrugged my shoulder, my scapula moved with it. When I hunched forward, my scapulas moved away from one another. Having contact with the floor helped me feel these oppositions and compliments of my boney landmarks with the area of the body I was moving. My favorite body part to initiate movements with were my arms. This is because the movements with arms while lying on the floor can still be intricate including the hands and wrists in the movements as well. Also because the arm muscles connect to the lower back, movements initiated from the arms flow into the torso and back and create beautiful upper body movements.
Moving From Bones Similar to our bone dances in class, I brought awareness to my bones as I was in constructive rest. We thought about the layers within the bones and how they are constructed. Then I stood up and moved through my apartment focusing on the hard, cancellous bone. This movement felt like the bone dance. My body felt like I was only made of bones and a movement of one bone may swing into the movement of another bone. The quality of this dance seemed somewhat jerky. After, I moved into the marrow dance. Bone marrow is the "life-giving" center where all the calcium is stored in bones. If you have weak marrow, then bones become brittle. That is why my dance was full and wholesome as strong marrow resinated in my mind. Because strong marrow gives bones life, my movements seemed more grounded and controlled in comparison. When I danced combining the two dances, I found different rhythmic changes and dynamic changes to appear because of the different sensations of the bones I was feeling.
The last movement was from the connective tissue covering the bones or the periosteum. This connective tissue interweaves with other muscles and fascia throughout the body. I felt like I was softer in my movements, but more controlled than by bone and marrow dances. I had both light and grounded movements and my thoughts incorporated both how bones move and how muscles and fascia move together. Finally I danced and put all the bone layers together. I found that my dance was more intricate than any other improv dance I had ever done because of my focus on the three layers of bones and how you would describe them through dance.
Articulating the bones
ReplyDeleteWe have so many bones in our body! During our everyday lives, we don’t take notice of it nor do we give much attention to the different bones in our body. Therefore, this exercise was actually somewhat of a challenge.
I began the exercise with the articulation of my toes. Believe it or not… it required much concentration! Due to the fact that I don’t usually articulate my phalanges (bones of the toes), one phalange-at-a-time, I was not familiar with its movement and articulation. As I moved up the leg, to the ankles and knees, it became less challenging. Rotating my ankles is something I do often, for simple stretching and stress releasing and therefore, didn’t require too much effort. My hips however, were not stretched enough to rotate and maneuver to its full potential. However, as I included my pelvis along with my hips, everything was so much FUN. The body chose to move in all directions, qualities, speed, and levels. The pelvis also helped stimulate the spine and caused its undulation. This process was similar to a roller coaster ride; causing a domino effect on the rest of the body.
This entire process, starting with the skull and jaw, resulted in the same domino effect (from the top down). With this, I experienced the connections in the different parts of my body and how one affects the other.
(I can now understand the difficulty of ISOLATING different areas of your body. Especially, when there’s such an intense connection with one other.)
Moving from bone
Moving body parts with the bone, requires a lot of my attention! As a dancer and someone who loves physical activities and working out, I pay much attention to muscular movements, activities, growth, and strength; forgetting about its bony aspect. This exercise was not something hard to isolate and focus on, but rather took a lot of effort. Because we typically work on the development of muscles, we forget about our bones. This exercise brought me back to the realization and appreciation of our bone and its structures.
THAO
Articulating the Bones
ReplyDeleteIt's crazy articulating movement from the toes and working your way up the foot. I had a hard time starting a movement with my toes and trying to spread my toes so that in hopes to separate the movements of each toes. My middle toes all want to move together!!! When we started movements with our ankles, it brought me back to pointe class when we did ankle warm-ups and strengthening exercises. We would lay on our back just like this exercise, but do the alphabet in the air with our ankles on each foot to get a full range of motion and warm them up. As the hips moved, i felt the movement of the spine side to side, or curved and extended. The floor was massaging the back of my spine during these movements. Then, i began to initiate with my ribcage and found that the ribs and hips usually like to move together along with the spine movements as well.
My shoulder movements allowed me to feel the different ways my scapulas moved on the ground. When i shrugged my shoulder, my scapula moved with it. When I hunched forward, my scapulas moved away from one another. Having contact with the floor helped me feel these oppositions and compliments of my boney landmarks with the area of the body I was moving. My favorite body part to initiate movements with were my arms. This is because the movements with arms while lying on the floor can still be intricate including the hands and wrists in the movements as well. Also because the arm muscles connect to the lower back, movements initiated from the arms flow into the torso and back and create beautiful upper body movements.
Moving From Bones
Similar to our bone dances in class, I brought awareness to my bones as I was in constructive rest. We thought about the layers within the bones and how they are constructed. Then I stood up and moved through my apartment focusing on the hard, cancellous bone. This movement felt like the bone dance. My body felt like I was only made of bones and a movement of one bone may swing into the movement of another bone. The quality of this dance seemed somewhat jerky. After, I moved into the marrow dance. Bone marrow is the "life-giving" center where all the calcium is stored in bones. If you have weak marrow, then bones become brittle. That is why my dance was full and wholesome as strong marrow resinated in my mind. Because strong marrow gives bones life, my movements seemed more grounded and controlled in comparison. When I danced combining the two dances, I found different rhythmic changes and dynamic changes to appear because of the different sensations of the bones I was feeling.
The last movement was from the connective tissue covering the bones or the periosteum. This connective tissue interweaves with other muscles and fascia throughout the body. I felt like I was softer in my movements, but more controlled than by bone and marrow dances. I had both light and grounded movements and my thoughts incorporated both how bones move and how muscles and fascia move together. Finally I danced and put all the bone layers together. I found that my dance was more intricate than any other improv dance I had ever done because of my focus on the three layers of bones and how you would describe them through dance.
KATIE