Side 1 (10.8MB)
Side 2 (10.7MB)
River House
7/6/70
Side 1:
12:00 Body is a summation of 'energies'. The algebraic sum of energies.
It is also the summation of the balance that the various individual energies have succeeded in maintaining within the gravitational field.
15:15 Now it is possible to abstract this situation in terms of those blocks. In terms of simpler mechanical systems which you all understand. But what you are really dealing with is something vastly more complicated . Something within which there is vitaitly, within which there is life, within which there is response, within which there is feeling etc. etc.
16:30 Now you keys lie in the fact that the body is a segmented unit. There are many joints in the body which are the outward a visible signs of this segmentation. At each joint there is a situation which either enhances the organization of the body within the gravitational field or it prevents the organization of the body within the gravitational field.
18:30 I will not be satisfied with a just routine approach it such as, "we take a body and we do this first and we do this second and we do that third". Its quite true that you'll a lot of the word recipe flung around here meaning that ther eis a route there is a map by which you approach this. But I will not be happy if that is all you know about what you're doing. To me it is absolutely necessary that you think in terms of these energies within the body and the organization of them and the changing of them.
25:00 Working with the thorax in the first hour works directly with the pelvis via the rectus abdominus and the obliques.
37:15 I don't do examinations, I give a first hour. It is their behavior under the work that constitutes the examinations. It is the only thing that tells you where they are in terms of the energy level.
39:45 You have to free the pelvis to rotated on the femur. Because the femur cannot change its relation to the earth. The only place that you can begin to change the relation of the body to the earth is around the head of the femur.
43:00 The goal of all the hours is to organize the pelvis so that it knows where the horizontal is.
45:25 When the lumbars are brought back then you begin to get lengthening between the individual lumbars and you very often feel how the sacrum will reorganize itself on the fifth lumbar.
46:45 The cerivical curve and the lubmar curve are related. Your cervical curve talks about your lumbar curve and your lumbar curve talks about your cervical curve. Therefore if you aim to change one or the other permanently you have to change the twin, its the two ends of the stick.
50:45 Clients responsiblity in the process. Waistline = first or second lumbar (LDH??) Cient needs to be educated where the top of the head and where the waistline is...
52:15 First law of manipulation as we teach it is to get the materials of the structure into the direction, the muscles, the units whatever unit you are dealing with, toward the place where normally it was designed to work. the problems within bodies arises because the units of that body get our or away from the place where the design calls for their working. ...
54:35 ...and you demand physiological movement.
55:50 You cannot reorganize a body with your hands. You can only help that body to reorganize itself through movement.
58:25 In the first hour we are not dealing with legs as legs, we are only dealing with legs as anchorages of the pelvis. Your interest is only at the head of the femar and what attaches and at the ischial tuberosity and what attaches. You are interested in starting that pelvis on its way.
Side 2:
13:20 Levine riffs on segmental/energetic relations and the mechanism of the first hour.