If you have awakened your breath / spine through the upper body in the first set of nine practices, then you’re ready for deeper work, so here is the next set of nine short videos. Here is No. 1 of the second series. Eight more videos follow, each about one minute.

I hope by now, you begin to feel that no part of the body lives alone. All our movement originates with breath from the spine. As we work consciously from the spine, we will bear weight in the hands, wrists, elbows.

Let’s find the initial position on all fours on the floor. When we align the skeleton then the muscles operate in their primary functions without compensation. Place vertical arms with hands directly beneath the shoulders not too narrow, and not wider than your shoulders. Place the knees vertically down directly beneath the hip.