Still standing…
‘Still standing’ is an oxymoron.
Because to stand still denies the very process that has allowed us humans to adopt this most complicated of positions.
Imagine a collection of billiard balls balanced in a vertical stack. The dynamics of this feat are almost impossible to imagine let alone implement.
Yet this is not dis-similar to what we have achieved in coming to upright.
Think about the joints involved: ankles, knees, hips, every vertebra terminating in the 5kg dead weight at the top.
To call it a ‘feat’ is not understatement.
So when we are standing ‘still’ we are actually in an incremental dance of infinitesimal adjustments and recalibrations that our automatic nervous system is carrying out…constantly.
We are actually in a constant oscillation between falling and balancing.
Always.
It is dynamic and awesome.
And far from still.
So we may not ever truely be standing still, but we very much are still standing.
And this is what we are doing on Thursday’s class at Wildlife Wonders.
45 minutes to arrive at an under-standing.
