Perhaps this is what is true: However many postures and movements and ways of thinking about them and experiencing them you learn, the space of possibilities will remain unexhausted. For all practical purposes, the possibilities are unlimited: no-one will have cause to lament that there is nothing left to discover.
There seems to be additionally meaning in speaking about new discovery.
If you count various joint like the one of each toe you get a high dimensional space of possible positions and therefore a lot of different positions.
On the other hand you have somatic paradigms where movement exploration also leads people to discover new dimensions to distinguish different movement and body positions in a way they couldn’t previously.
The claim about counting joints is a rather trivial one while the somatic claim is a nontrivial one which people who haven’t engaged in somatic exploration might not find convincing.
Being to vague to distinguish the two claims seems problematic to me.
Yes, the degrees of freedom of nerve and muscle activation greatly exceed the degrees of freedom of the joints. In yoga, martial arts, ballet, and similar activites, it is not enough to merely achieve the right geometry of the posture and movement The inner work that produces the outer form is where the real activity happens.
Perhaps this is what is true: However many postures and movements and ways of thinking about them and experiencing them you learn, the space of possibilities will remain unexhausted. For all practical purposes, the possibilities are unlimited: no-one will have cause to lament that there is nothing left to discover.
There seems to be additionally meaning in speaking about new discovery.
If you count various joint like the one of each toe you get a high dimensional space of possible positions and therefore a lot of different positions.
On the other hand you have somatic paradigms where movement exploration also leads people to discover new dimensions to distinguish different movement and body positions in a way they couldn’t previously.
The claim about counting joints is a rather trivial one while the somatic claim is a nontrivial one which people who haven’t engaged in somatic exploration might not find convincing.
Being to vague to distinguish the two claims seems problematic to me.
Yes, the degrees of freedom of nerve and muscle activation greatly exceed the degrees of freedom of the joints. In yoga, martial arts, ballet, and similar activites, it is not enough to merely achieve the right geometry of the posture and movement The inner work that produces the outer form is where the real activity happens.
I like that phrase.
I don’t understand this one!
Ah, multiple negatives. Cancelling them out: there will always be more to discover or create in the arts of posture and movement.
That’s certainly how I feel at the moment. An unending flow of movement and potential (rather than discrete positions).
(A spontaneous comment)