A snippet from a day with U.V., a beloved mentor and teacher

I never want to extract anything from my students.  That's what they have.  But I like to play with it.  It's not about corrective work, but about exploring what is there, to help them become more aware, more curious about it for themselves.

When I see or hear a student, I just let myself become curious about something and then I like to explore it like a child in a sandbox.  We can't take what we do too seriously.  It's very serious, but this is why we have to be playful.

Anything can be a point of probing awareness.  Weight balances and imbalances, distances from a part of the body to another.  Which arm hangs closer to the center of your body, which sitz bone has more weight?  Now play with it, lean more to that side with your body, take your shoulder back to center but leave your pelvis there.  Now sit normally again.  Is there any difference?

It is the same for any age.  Once I know my approach it's just a matter of different tools.  With a child you must do more, you must approach it from a child's world, but the ideas are the same.