Week 1: The Body Speaks

Welcome to The Receptive Mind course WEEK 1: 'The Body speaks'

Lovely to see you here, get ready to start your journey!

This week you will explore your daily practise called pandiculation.

Do you remember getting up this morning? Did you jump up to get started right away or did you yawn and stretch before starting your day? Going forward you will now have the choice each day to connect to your body properly and align yourself with your sense of self. Pandiculation is a fancy word for a stretch that naturally occurs when yawning. Every animal with a vertebra does this several times a day, especially when rising from sleep. There is a huge difference between stretching and pandiculation. Stretching mostly involves single muscle focus addressed rationally and generally doesn't involve the nervous system. You can have a conversation whilst stretching for example. Pandiculation demands full attention and involves muscle groups, it resets the connection between the nervous system and the muscular system. In the video of this week you will be guided to the process of stepping away from controlling your body from the head into following your body naturally without imposing poses on your body enabling you to connect to the intrinsic urge of the body to restore through pandiculation. This present creation of movement initiated by the body involves strong new sensory information for the brain, connecting and resetting muscle memory and motor control deeply in our conscious and sub-conscious being.