SWIVEL

After Seiki –May 2009


(Practice like Shiatsu but more based on the breath andf on acceptance and going with the responsiveness of the reciever as it alters and turns in real-time- taught and promoted by Akinobu Kishi.)
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Alignment and tilt from the hips. A rotational swivel with infinite adjustments into momentary set positions. That informs a tendency that runs through and outwards like the threading of a needle –leanings out and towards- associations, relational tendencies that bolt together.


Assemblages in order to create conduits- circuits for sending out and sending in. Breathing is such an exchange. Located in the gravitational leanings of the hips. A capacity to contain, bunch together. Stress and release so that neither exists permanently separated.

In this heaviness of bone and flesh, this ability to feed by going into weight and its continual redistribution, in that pump at the core, all the senses emanate.

Taking in through containment- a grasping down and a release in cascades of outward flow. A squeeze pump-machine that by tilting allows the liquid to take on the sustenance of a placeable weight.

Then, only in that clear stillness- clear waters- descended as far as they can go, there is disturbance. A swaying. An inclination. Pure disposition towards this or that and its plaintive re-attention somewhere else.

The binding shifts so that there is a spiralling into exegesis- into the filaments that spread as they touch further and further outwards, molecule after molecule, displaced by and attracted to one another, now no longer as one but as singular unities- multitudes.

In that dispersal it reaches as far as it can go. Then reverses, pulled back down and in; into the vault of the spinable hips. Between back and front, sacrum and Hara, the eye and the ear and the smell and the soundings reside in these small tilts between opposites- back and front, left and right.

Through duration other states of dimensionality- between movement and stillness, unfold. This is the turning, the swivel, the spin caught and maintained in the stillness at the centre.