{"id":1527,"date":"2010-09-12T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-12T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/somatics.com\/wordpress\/the-gyroscopic-walk\/"},"modified":"2010-09-12T13:15:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-12T20:15:00","slug":"the-gyroscopic-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somatics.com\/wordpress\/the-gyroscopic-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gyroscopic Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>The Gyroscopic Walk is a form of &#8220;super-walking&#8221; &#8212; a high-efficiency walking pattern that gives you more walking speed at less effort and that integrates your whole-body movements so you feel more free in movement, better balanced and better put together.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>The Gyroscopic Walk is very good to do after any other somatic exercise or after a clinical somatic education session, to rapidly integrate (absorb and reinforce) the improvements in physical comfort and movement.<\/b><br \/>\n<b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\">\n<i>Walking is a peerless organizer. &#8212; Ida P. Rolf<\/i><\/div>\n<p>The four people who attended my training day, &#8220;Trauma Lesson Calibration and Pandiculation Extravaganza&#8221;, saw me demonstrate and then learned and practiced a walking pattern I call, The Gyroscopic Walk (which I first called, &#8220;The Magnetic Walk&#8221;). &nbsp;This walk integrates beautifully with Thomas Hanna&#8217;s walking lesson in his &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/somatics.com\/page7-cat_audio.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Myth of Aging<\/b><\/a>&#8221; program (lesson 8, in his book,&nbsp;<i>Somatics)<\/i>&nbsp;and with my program, <i><a href=\"http:\/\/somatics.com\/page7-walking.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Superwalking<\/b><\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The Gyroscopic Walk efficiently conserves and recycles the kinetic&nbsp;(movement)&nbsp;energy of walking in a way that increases walking speed with the same amount of walking effort &#8212; or &#8212; that reduces the effort of &nbsp;walking at any speed.<\/p>\n<p>They learned the basic pattern of that walk in a four-step process:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>See.<\/li>\n<li>Prepare yourself.<\/li>\n<li>Do.<\/li>\n<li>Refine.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The basic pattern of The Gyroscopic Walk involves arm movements (while walking ) of a stylized kind. &nbsp;<b>You keep the palms of your hands facing your hip joints<\/b> while your arms swing forward and backward. &nbsp;The motion involves a swiveling motion of your forearms. &nbsp;Try it; you&#8217;ll understand.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"320\" height=\"266\" data-thumbnail-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/rHav47M8KHg\/0.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rHav47M8KHg?feature=player_embedded\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The movement of your arms swinging with your palms continuously facing your hip joints produces a sensation in the hands and arms of containing and moving a mass around a central point &#8212; which is, of course, is what sets up a gyroscopic force. With a bicycle, the gyroscopic force of the wheels keeps us up; in walking, it keeps us balanced as we pivot around our &#8220;spinal axis&#8221;. In both cases, gyroscopic force conserves and recycles kinetic energy (movement).<\/p>\n<p>Now, there are three developments of the Gyroscopic Walk, maybe more, that come after this one.<\/p>\n<p>NOTE:&nbsp; Click <a href=\"http:\/\/somatics.com\/MP3\/The%20Two%20Power%20Walks,%20developed.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> for an audio overview of, and instruction in, these and more developments. <\/p>\n<p><u>Here&#8217;s the first:<\/u><br \/>\nbouncing that &#8216;ball of mass&#8217; contained&nbsp;in the palms of the hands&nbsp;forward and backward with each step<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAs your arms swing, you keep your palms facing your hip joints; your forearms turn forward and backward with each step.&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\nYou contain or restrain your forward-backward arm movement (reduce the amount of swing), while maintaining your walking speed, enough that you can feel the force transmitted to your legs. &nbsp;That&#8217;s the experience of recycling kinetic energy.&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\nYour walk will spontaneously accelerate with the same amount of effort as before and you&#8217;ll feel your feet anchor to the ground, better.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<u>Another<\/u> is<br \/>\nexploring the Gyroscopic Walk at different speeds&nbsp; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThere&#8217;s something to be discovered, there. &nbsp;I need not say more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<u>and a Third is<\/u><br \/>\nadjusting the location of twist you feel in your trunk up or down.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nYou do this action by feel, once you have understood and can do the basic Gyrosopic Walk.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<u>a Fourth is<\/u><br \/>\nalternating Gyroscopic and ordinary walking<br \/>\n<u><br \/>\n<\/u><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nDo the Gyroscopic Walk only until you can feel the force transmitted to your legs, then revert to ordinary walking. &nbsp;We&#8217;re talking a few seconds, here. &nbsp;You repeat the action many times.&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\nYou&#8217;ll feel things connect and relax in a new way, leading to smoother, more powerful walking.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And there are more &#8212; but I think that&#8217;s quite enough to chew on, for now.<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence<\/p>\n<p>PS:&nbsp; Oh, here&#8217;s an afterthought &#8230;.. just a little happenstance one.&nbsp;<br \/>\nListen:&nbsp; We can use the Gyroscopic Walk, when alternated with the<br \/>\nScottish Geezer&#8217;s walk, to re-set our idling speed and to tune up our<br \/>\nwalking movements, whole-bodily.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"320\" height=\"266\" data-thumbnail-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/VuW4kMTquoI\/0.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VuW4kMTquoI?feature=player_embedded\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\nJust in case you don&#8217;t know what I mean by, &#8216;idling speed&#8217;: &nbsp;the higher the idling speed, the higher the tension level overall in that individual &#8212; also known as &#8220;stress level&#8221;, &#8220;being somewhat wound up&#8221; &#8212; and the ever recommended and approved of, &#8220;toned&#8221; (partially tense and ready to go).<\/p>\n<p>The two walking patterns are, in a sense, opposite and complementary, so they provide contracting sensations that heighten perception. &nbsp;We can use the Gyroscopic Walk, when combined with the Scottish Geezer&#8217;s walk, to re-set our idling speed so that we can explore and find the &#8220;idling speed&#8221; and\/or &#8220;tone&#8221; we like best.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;tuning up your walking, whole-bodily&#8221; part is something for which you need satisfactory experience with the Gyroscopic Walk to understand this discussion.<\/p>\n<p>PPS:&nbsp; I wrote this message for Hanna somatic educator colleagues and clients with experience.<\/p>\n<p>If you are not a Hanna somatic educator, these words&nbsp;may be &#8220;helpful&#8221;:&nbsp; To do the Gyroscopic walk, you must already be free and well-coordinated enough to get into a movement rhythm; stiff places and pains interfere, so <a href=\"http:\/\/somatics.com\/practitioners.htm\" target=\"_blank\">get some somatic education<\/a> to free yourself.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>Add your comment &#8212; what you would like to ask or tell.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gyroscopic Walk is a form of &#8220;super-walking&#8221; &#8212; a high-efficiency walking pattern that gives you more walking speed at less effort and that integrates your whole-body movements so you feel more free in movement, better balanced and better put together. 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