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What could he be thinking? How did anyone ever come up with the idea that you could lie on your side, top knee in front on the floor, turn your face and shoulders towards the ceiling, and tap your shoulder blades on the ground? It feels impossible - in an entirely unique way for each shoulder!

We can address the eyes in many ways in our explorations: in this lesson their calm, and the quality of our vision of the dark, is a marker of the overall state of the nervous system. See Bourdon's image Eyes and nervous system to feed your sensing and thinking.

My niece is at that stage of figuring out how to balance that big heavy head at the top of a small neck--tiny little vertebrae without a lot of big muscles around them--as she heads off running down the street. It's fun to watch.

This lesson may broaden the resources available to you in keeping a good head on your shoulders!

Where does flexibility come from? Why is it that we can only move so far, and then we stop? Tight muscles? Bad joints?--Or habits?

Start with this lesson, and learn something you can use to transform any lesson that you do.

This is the first of two lessons from the Agile Awareness workshop in September 2009. The second lesson is Simpler.

Now that we have the idea of the primary image from the first lesson of the Agile Awareness workshop, let's start to refine it and fill it in. There are places in the back, between the shoulders blades and at the base of the neck, that are often a blank place in our self-awareness. This lesson finds and integrates them.