All of life pulses. It is our biological inheritance. How we participate in this gift of movement provides the foundation for how we create our personal lives.
The Dialogue of Involuntary and Voluntary
The focus of this weekend is to deepen experiences and bring focus to the fundamental ongoing dialogue between the body’s involuntary impulses and the dynamic shaping process that organizes our inherited action patterns into distinct acts. The repertoire of behaviors and structures and the accompanying energetic waves in this dialogue are the basis of human experience; participating in this dialogue is authoring a personal life.
An organism and its environment are variations of one another, an evolutionary co-bodying, distinct and as well as interactive via the dynamic action of membranes.
The human body is a complex array of layering membranes enveloping and comprising micro- environments in a dance, a relational dialogue of movement. Pulsing, torqueing and twisting generate gathering, extending and holding, in and between layers, as the fundamental dynamic of life, and the source of our experience of aliveness. Waving structures receiving and transmitting waves in multiple patterns of excitatory peaks and troughs, shimmer throughout our nervous system just as wind-blown ripples shimmer across a lake.
The cortex influencing the intensity and duration of membrane wave patterns generates a layering of cortical-muscular networks — shaping excitatory waves into discrete acts of fine-motor control, that can be refined and repeated in a process……………. . The depth of this on-going cycle of mutual call and response between body and cortex in forming repeatable behaviors is the unique dance of human evolution, and is fundamental to emotion, thought and memory — to generating an identity from inherited impulse. To slow and give measure to an activity is to renew attention to the body-cortex dialogue, creating an opportunity for participating in the balance of involuntary and voluntary movement, re-engaging behavior as recognizing ourselves, and re-entering the dance of human evolution. — Peter Wright