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PRI (Postural Restortion): what is PRI technique?
People think of PRI as a gym exercise. It'sactually very different than any other techniques. PRI "excercises" allow you consciously to experience your body in a new way, that engages places in the body of which the autonomic nervous system has forgotten about.
PRI : bring conscious awareness to a movement
In PRI you have to bring conscious awareness to a movement that you're no longer doing or forgotten about because of postural habits. In this way you can experience your muscles in a relaxed state.
PRI: you are actually talking to your brain
If you go to the gym, you're creating tension to try to feel your muscles. In PRI it's different. Let me give an example so people can understand: Just by standing on the left heel and imitating the walk while the weight is on the left Hill. Just by standing for a few seconds like this, you are actually talking to your brain. You are suggesting to the brain a possibility that it forgot, a position that it doesn't recognize anymore. Right. Because the one thing you would have to do in that position is make sure that your left knee is slightly bent and that your left hip is shifted back slightly left, because this is the 50% of the side.
In that position, once you're on your left heel, where 70% of your weight is on the left heel, your left knee is slightly bent. Then put your arms at your side. Yeah. Okay. So right now we just call that a "left stance" and your head would actually be over your left leg and hence you drop your left shoulder a little bit.
Where is the sternum?
Drop the left shoulder. Now you're in left stance. Right now, if you bring your left arm forward and your right arm back, do you sense your sternum rotating? Yes. It twists. Yes. So your pelvis is to the left and your upper goes to the right. Right, like you squeeze the spine in the middle from the middle of the thoracic vertebrates. Yeah. Everything has to rotate in opposite directions.
PRI It is not about the technique
It means is that it is not the technique itself. It is the conveying message to the autonomous nervous system. If you change sides you'll see that it is much more comfortable.
Sensing this is the essence of pri. We are very good at doing that right. We are not very good at doing it the opposite, especially bending the left knee. The locking of the left knee was very automatic. Some of the left legs muscles are weak becuase It's a habit. And once you're in that habit for too long, you become unstable. And once you become unstable, you have to lock out your knee and tip your pelvis forward and arch your left back and use your neck to help stabilize the left side of your body. once you repeat the patterns that the brain forgot- you balance the whole body.
Does it last? Does it sustain?
With PRI it does. So you shouldn't have to think about these things in your daily life or not too much, because PRI is just walking and breathing. Yeah. Every single PRI technique is simulating a stage of the gate cycle of the walking cycle because every single technique turns your pelvis to the left. Whether you realize it or not, your torso is rotating to the moment you breathe out on your left side. Then to the left, your torso has to rotate to the right. That's just how it goes. So every technique in PR, I one way or another is putting you into that position. In a way it is correlating with the message of IDA Rolf: she was talking about the middle line in our body, and once you are more or less in the middle, the muscles can let go.
We are not symmetrical: what is a perfect asymmetry?
you're never going to be symmetrical. But in PRI we want a perfect asymmetry. We've all developed imperfect asymmetry. PRI will put us back into our normal asymmetry. We're never going to be symmetric. It's never going to happen, which is fine. If we were symmetric, we would probably walk like a Penguin. Asymmetry allows us to rotate like humans. And it's rotation that makes us unique in our way.
The domes of the diaphragm run the show of the whole body
by exhaling in the left side and raising the Dome of the diaphragm in the left side while exhaling. this is something very essential. that's the ZOA. this create most symmetry in the body.
