Stretching Your Boundaries by AL Kavadlo
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Stretching Your Boundaries by AL Kavadlo
Every tradition, religion and science recognizes that the human being balances between the
world of Matter and an intangible, yet mysteriously palpable and somewhat measurable world of
Energy. The building blocks of human form, whether you scientifically refer to them as atoms, or
poetically refer to them as dust, are impelled towards movement by a primal impulse we call breath.
We are the movement of breath through the body.
Just as beautiful music is produced when the skilled musician blows through a wellcrafted flute, so
too does man’s life become a beautiful song when the breath of the Universe moves smoothly and
softly through his body. But unlike the flute, which holds its creator’s form the duration of its
existence, the human body is constantly in flux. It is always growing, reacting and responding—it is a
sensitive “thinking body” that is highly malleable.
From the very first slap laid upon the baby’s backside by the doctor, the soft, supple, spiritual conduit
we call “body” begins taking the form of the demands pressed upon it by its Earthly existence. From
this point onward, the once unobstructed respiratory wave begins to exhibit defensive, utilitarian and
even neurotic restrictions created by and held on to by the muscular system.
According to the late Wilhelm Reich there are several bands of muscular tension that regularly
manifest throughout the core of the body, all of which restrict the capacity to breathe deeply. Muscles
in the face and skull, the jaw and neck, the chest, the belly, and finally the pelvic floor all contribute
to the subtle flexion and extension of the physical human core that he called the respiratory wave. As
a psychoanalyst, Reich determined that each of these muscular restrictions is created by the organism
as a physical defense against a psychological pain. He asserted that by helping his patients release
their muscular tension and restore their capacity to breathe deeply that they not only felt better
mentally, but obviously they will look better!
Every tradition, religion and science recognizes that the human being balances between the
world of Matter and an intangible, yet mysteriously palpable and somewhat measurable world of
Energy. The building blocks of human form, whether you scientifically refer to them as atoms, or
poetically refer to them as dust, are impelled towards movement by a primal impulse we call breath.
We are the movement of breath through the body.
Just as beautiful music is produced when the skilled musician blows through a wellcrafted flute, so
too does man’s life become a beautiful song when the breath of the Universe moves smoothly and
softly through his body. But unlike the flute, which holds its creator’s form the duration of its
existence, the human body is constantly in flux. It is always growing, reacting and responding—it is a
sensitive “thinking body” that is highly malleable.
From the very first slap laid upon the baby’s backside by the doctor, the soft, supple, spiritual conduit
we call “body” begins taking the form of the demands pressed upon it by its Earthly existence. From
this point onward, the once unobstructed respiratory wave begins to exhibit defensive, utilitarian and
even neurotic restrictions created by and held on to by the muscular system.
According to the late Wilhelm Reich there are several bands of muscular tension that regularly
manifest throughout the core of the body, all of which restrict the capacity to breathe deeply. Muscles
in the face and skull, the jaw and neck, the chest, the belly, and finally the pelvic floor all contribute
to the subtle flexion and extension of the physical human core that he called the respiratory wave. As
a psychoanalyst, Reich determined that each of these muscular restrictions is created by the organism
as a physical defense against a psychological pain. He asserted that by helping his patients release
their muscular tension and restore their capacity to breathe deeply that they not only felt better
mentally, but obviously they will look better!
