Our body, our human anatomy, is an intertwining fabric of parts. These many aspects of our physicality are felt and cross-reference each other to create the fullness of our experience. It is like the story of six blind men and an elephant. One blind man touches the trunk and thinks that an elephant is like a snake. A second man touches the ear of the elephant and thinks that an elephant is like a fan. A third touches a tusk and thinks the elephant is like a spear… Each one takes their picture to be the whole, but the truth is the elephant is a composition of what each man has come into touch with. Together, if their cumulative knowledge could be integrated, they would have the best possible picture of what an elephant is.
In the same way, we come into contact with more parts of our own bodies as we broaden and deepen our movement vocabulary and with that our integrative knowledge heightens.
We perceive not only through the senses such as sight, hearing, smell and taste and touch (through the skin outwardly) but through feeling the contents of the body (from the skin inwardly).
Human anatomy should not only be confined to studying books where the body is divided and dissected for an image on a page, but should be experiential as well. Each part and segment feels different and feeds into a collective and unique whole.