This movement is an exploration of the experience of the body moving as a harmonious whole. Though, in fact, our body is always one whole, often in life we feel our movement to be segmented, parts moving in isolation, unrelated to the rest. Re-establishing and resting into the felt sense of the inner oneness of the body in motion can be deeply unifying, settling and regulating for the nervous system.  

The Movement:
Take a moment to again sense the alignment of your body, and its fullness, perhaps with a few Sun Breaths. Gently begin to let your body sway naturally from foot to foot. Take time to notice the whole body swaying from side to side as one. Let your arms begin to participate. Follow your impulse to make the movements larger or smaller, shifting your feet to support you as you move in different directions. Let yourself move in whatever way feels interesting, easy, natural, perhaps expressing something you are feeling at the moment.   Allow yourself to experiment with directions, tempo, speed, shapes of motion. What is important here is not the particular movement, but taking the time to feel the body moving as a whole: when the arm moves, can you feel the head moved by it, the weight shift on the feet? You might contrast this wholeness with what it’s like to move your arm by itself, without the rest of the body – or move your head without it shifting your weight. Return to the sense of wholeness, within your own freedom of movement.

When you are ready let the movement wind down and come to center over your feet, sensing the dynamism and harmony that is still there as the body comes to rest