Julienne Schembri

“to enter the world. An individual is born. Once out in the world, we continue to pattern our spine daily by giving attention in a sensate way. We turn our head when our cheek is touched, rotating in the spine to “root” toward our mother’s breast, fulfilling our basic needs for nourishment. We have reflexive spinal reactions to touch in the torso area such as the Galant Reflex which causes a slight lateral flexion of the torso on the side of the torso touched. And in the very bottom of our spine we reach our tail forward and up when our parent is cleaning our anal area. These basic reflexes begin to establish movement in all the planes of our three-dimensional world: Rotation in the Horizontal plane, Lateral Flexion in the Vertical plane, and Flexion-Extension in the Sagittal plane.2”
― Peggy Hackney, Making Connections: Total Body Integration Through Bartenieff Fundamentals