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Movement w/ Rita Geirola IN ENGLISH2020.03.28

色々な人に読んでもらいたいと思い英語版も載せます。ところどころヘタッピですが皆さんのイマジネーションでどうか伝わりますように！
I'm posting the English version of the blog in hopes that many people will read it. I know I'm a bit of a mess, but I hope your imagination can get the idea across!

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2020.03.17
It's been a few days since my four-day movement class ended, but I'll leave this with my thoughts.

On the first day, the first thing I did was paint a portrait. Some of them are like characters, some have delicate touches, some have no feet, some have ground, some have big faces, and so on.

In the classes that followed, we always got to the training room about 10 minutes before class and everyone had time to do what they needed to do right now. Some do yoga, some meditate, some stretch, some look out the window at the distant mountains, some walk... Time to listen to your body for what you need in the moment, not habitual movements. Then, with a quiet space, we moved into the class.
And it was so refreshing to see everyone in the class asking all sorts of questions and then the class for us seemed to progress from there.

Particularly impressive was the breathing work. Touching my partner's body on the table, use your hands to draw out the breath of your partner. It's not about pushing or pulling, it's about "just feeling my partner's body" as a sensation, and my partner's body will start to respond from the part I’m touching, and you'll be able to take a big breath. What a wonderful job Rolfing is, to see people breathing with such a sense of comfort.

Come to think of it, I don't think there are many active classes in Japan where you can speak up and ask questions. Basically, do you have a question? I feel that when I am asked, "What's wrong with you?
Here, we have simple questions, sometimes we talk a lot, and discussions go on for an hour and a half instead of a prepared class. Even if there is a lot of common sense and discomfort, the things we have been putting in and various values are changing.

By the way, in Japan, Benz is a luxury car, but here, Toyota is a luxury car. Things are different, but they change where the value of the same thing is. There were so many things like that that made me laugh at how much I used to care about the little things.

Like the class I'm in now, the story goes against the grain.
However, I feel that it is very important for people to proceed independently with their own ideas in this way.

What we can learn from the movement. It's not about right or wrong, it's about "How do you feel about it? That feeling is the answer. Some people had 37 spines, while others had 18. And it's different for everyone, and that's fine. From there, you start asking yourself, "So, how many spines do you actually have? So I counted the spines of the human model beside me and found out that there were 24 spines. If you do that, I'm sure you'll never forget how many spines you have.
If you only want the right answer, you can go to a bookstore or Google it. I came here because I wanted to meet an experience that went beyond that. It is nothing more than that.

Somehow, I ended up talking about the many things I felt during that period of time rather than the content of the class.
But I think what I came here to do is not to learn the right answer, but to experience it.