Flow

Noticing before, during, and after moving encourages a sense of flow in the movement. When a substance like water flows, it behaves in two pretty interesting ways: it will take on the shape of whatever vessel it encounters and it will seek it's own level.

Flow in movement is similar. A flowing movement adapts itself both to the requirements of the activity and the mechanical potential of the body. It utilizes energy more efficiently and takes advantage of the intrinsic strength and flexibilty of the body.

One of the most interesting characteristics of flow in movement is that you can experience it in an ultra-sensory way; i.e., you can "feel" it without using your normal senses. It's an intuition about the quality of your moving that "precedes" the movement itself.

As strange as it may sound, you can "know" what a movement will be like before you do it. It's a little like looking down the road when you're driving except that there's no gap between what you see ahead and what later happens: they both occupy the same moment in time; they both happen in the now. Freaky! N'est Pas?