Ouch ouch ouch

I have to be honest about today.
I woke up quite sore and aching.
I sometimes find that the pain is one thing, but what is does to my energy and mood and thinking is a whole other game.
When I am in this state, I fall into a state of just wanting relief.

I started today at school with a lesson with David.
I certainly did feel better as usual after and during this lesson.
David mentioned that with tightness or pain in an area it is important to not let yourself be distracted by the particular area you think the pain is in as most likely the are that needs lengthening is elsewhere.
The best thing to do is the think length in the whole back.

Next we had a group lesson with Jenny.
We continued on from last week and worked on going from a position of all fours to using a chair to get up against the wall. Then doing a whispered ah and also directing our arms outwards along the wall. This really was a monkey against the wall.
I felt this was very good more me.

There was then an opportunity to do something individual due to extra turns.
I took this opportunity to have a turn with Michael.
After a good length of time (approx 20 mins) I felt so much better especially a real sense of calmness and clarity in my mind. There was some deep level massaging going on across my whole body. Very profound.

Lastly we had a performance group session with David.
This was the first time I had a performance session with David.
I must say it was very good indeed.
I was doing some speaking (trying to work on my gasping and rushing and running out of air)
He asked me to lay on my front with a blanket along the middle of my body from my pelvis to my shoulders. This stopped my stomach and chest from moving so much in breathing and almost forced my breath into my back. This was very good as I do tend to hold on especially in my upper back/shoulders area.
I felt some serious releasing in this area.

After school today, I feel totally buggered and quite sore in a deep way.
Although hard to see at the time, I think this week (especially today) has been quite a move forward. Pain like this seems to usually come before some extra release.

I meant to put onto the blog yesterday some simple instruction for the whispered ah that Anne (Anatomy Teacher) gave us. Here they are:
Breath in nose (don't force it in)
Allow jaw to drop open and open mouth
tone the soft pallate (best achieved by thinking of something funny)
While breathing out , think of the whole torso being involved in the activity.
Do this a few times in a row.