Gary Stockdale
Nick Konow
View this post on Instagram You read one question, but I am asking two. One asks you to take inventory and the other inquires how you look for it. I have always been particularly aware of the tensions I carry (emotional or physical), but early into my career as a movement educator I came to the realization that most people didn’t. When tuning into how you feel, where do you look? And what is it telling you about YOU, right here and right now? A post shared by Gary Stockdale (@gfunctional) on Aug 21, 2020 at 4:47pm PDT
You read one question, but I am asking two. One asks you to take inventory and the other inquires how you look for it. I have always been particularly aware of the tensions I carry (emotional or physical), but early into my career as a movement educator I came to the realization that most people didn’t. When tuning into how you feel, where do you look? And what is it telling you about YOU, right here and right now?
A post shared by Gary Stockdale (@gfunctional) on Aug 21, 2020 at 4:47pm PDT
View this post on Instagram And Gary asked me: HOW do you FEEL? And was quick remind me that there’s two questions there. See? And with a right shoulder that aches all the time over the past few days and then veers to a sharpness of pain that makes the blood boil at the injustice of inaccessibility to quotidian ranges of motion, it’s easy to see one question and provide the cheapest answer that attaches itself to abrupt sensation… I feel shit. And yet we know that moving is ONLY sensation expressing a broader spectrum of living. And living ain’t my shoulder. Living ain’t it’s pain. It is HOW it carries itself ANYWAY, in reluctance, rage, resignation and grace. And that’s the better story. That’s the real answer. And it comes not in words, but in moments paid attention and sensations we would otherwise deny. So how do I feel, Gary? Let this complicated arrangement of limbs carrying my right shoulder through space serve as the answer that my words can never provide. Not any clearer, maybe. But kinder. And that’s nice. 😎 A post shared by N I C K K O N O W (@worldmvmnt) on Aug 21, 2020 at 6:30pm PDT
And Gary asked me: HOW do you FEEL? And was quick remind me that there’s two questions there. See? And with a right shoulder that aches all the time over the past few days and then veers to a sharpness of pain that makes the blood boil at the injustice of inaccessibility to quotidian ranges of motion, it’s easy to see one question and provide the cheapest answer that attaches itself to abrupt sensation… I feel shit. And yet we know that moving is ONLY sensation expressing a broader spectrum of living. And living ain’t my shoulder. Living ain’t it’s pain. It is HOW it carries itself ANYWAY, in reluctance, rage, resignation and grace. And that’s the better story. That’s the real answer. And it comes not in words, but in moments paid attention and sensations we would otherwise deny. So how do I feel, Gary? Let this complicated arrangement of limbs carrying my right shoulder through space serve as the answer that my words can never provide. Not any clearer, maybe. But kinder. And that’s nice. 😎
A post shared by N I C K K O N O W (@worldmvmnt) on Aug 21, 2020 at 6:30pm PDT
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