Maud Paulissen-Kaspar & Barbara Roitner Myoreflextraining muscular functions of feelings „We are in our body. We are our body which originates actions, movements and feelings. In our bodies and with our bodies we express ourselves and get in touch with the outside world. Our muscles are carriers and expressive systems. With specific muscle and movement melodies we make ourselves small, we duck, we freeze or we align ourselves to conquer the world. Our experiences and our biography imprint, create and form our posture, gesture and mimicry. We are our physical memory, where we are preserved and where we carry things about with us. Through our bodies we listen to ourselves.“ We will consciously sense, read and recognise tensions, emotions and wrong postures in our muscular system. Painfully shortened muscles and tense muscular chains as well as opposing muscle systems may be felt via pressure points and special exercises. Thus they may be trained and lossened with widened perception. We may sense emotions and experiences which we do not know consciously but which create limitations in everyday life. Our dynamic self-expression will be given the physical spiritual space for an open step forwards. Through specific movements and kinaesthetic experiences using our hands, we will effortlessly change our perspective by learning to mirror ourselves. Moments of self-discovery, alignment and new patterns of action that come from the deep within, lie in that act of recognition. The experience of body, spirit and movement being unified in us is one of the most important aspects of this work. We act out our emotions and feelings through our bodies. We research them, „lifting the veil“ of limitations in our history and enjoy the opening, the qualities of permission and ability. Physical success leaves traces in the brain and designs our movement apparatus like an architect. In a circular way we thus create the experiential situation of our psyche. What we experienced and lived in this process may be playfully re-created in everyday life.
