A new starter must learn how to relax their muscles and utilise skeletal
alignment to their advantage.
Habitual muscular tension actively prevents optimal alignment.
Tense muscles lock the joints and impede natural, healthy skeletal use.
Letting-go of tension and trusting the skeleton requires a leap of
faith, and
here is where the difficulty lies.
The student must stop doing what is comfortable and familiar, and try something
entirely new.
Hence the catch-22:
- in order to use the skeleton properly a person needs to relax and allow the
joints to open and the spine to settle
- relaxation requires confidence and confidence assumes security
- the unfamiliar promotes insecurity/fear and fear keeps the body tense
