ABSTRACT
A willingness to participate in changing relationships and changing patterns of relationship is core to the Fundamentals system. Fundamentals is in a sense a relationship technique. This is particularly important in achieving a fully functioning Head-Tail connection. What is overwhelmingly obvious to anyone observing people moving in dance classes, sports training, or even in climbing stairs, however, is that most people are not utilizing Head-Tail Connectivity to aid them in moving. The concept that head and tail are in a constant and always changing interactive relationship is often the single most important realization that a student of movement can have. A small change in availability of any part of the spine for movement will mean the possibility of a large change in possibilities at the distal end of the limbs. Developmentally, “Yield & Push” precedes “Reach & Pull.” But development is never totally linear. It happens in overlapping waves.
