The other day, Pam said to me that we all want a tail.  That in our heart of hearts, at some point in life, we want a tail.  I thought back to my fifth grade Halloween costume.  I was a skinny black cat with pink ears and a delicious, heavy , very long tail.  I can remember wagging it, waving it, dancing it.

One of the things I teach in movement classes is how to feel the connection between the head and the tail.  How to feel it in all dimensions, how to initiate from the tail, how to let the tail talk, the head respond, and how to have a lively, unpredictable conversation between head and tail.

Try this:  Sitting at your computer, move from your tail.  Small, slow, playful.  Don’t think about it.  Just let it move.  Can you feel that movement going up your spine?  How far up your spine?  Now move from your head, as if you were answering your tail.  Don’t stop the movement at your neck, but let it spill down the column of your spine.  Now try moving them simultaneously.  Just little movements, subtle, slow.  See what happens.  Let me know!