The Zillion Points of Contact

John Loupos 4-24-2016

The lives of all human beings are affected by two variables that strongly influence how we live and experience living. First, there are the ever-present effects of gravity on our bodies in relationship to the Earth, as we move about. Second are the intra-relationships between different, and often disparate parts of our bodies, including the bones of our skeletal frame and other connective tissues. Most people’s awareness of the effects of gravity and the relationships between different body parts is wholly unconscious or implicit only. However, these variables must be understood and actively nurtured if you wish to live in your body in the smartest and most gratifying and efficient way. In the Zillion Points of Contact learning series we will lay the groundwork for making the implicit explicit.

The Zillion Points of Contact utilizes thirty, more or less, of the body’s natural boney prominences, along with their associated muscular attachments, to help you stand straighter and taller and move more intelligently with enhanced somatic awareness.

John Loupos, M.S., CHSE has been teaching Asian martial arts since 1968, and has been involved with Hanna Somatic education since 2003. John is the author of several books on Tai Chi and “The Sustainable You,” a book on Somatics, plus assorted other learning media.

John’s overriding philosophy is that Somatics, Tai Chi, and Qigong can help people improve their experience of living in their bodies (pain relief, better posture, smarter muscles), and achieve their human potential by recovering or maintaining a more youthful freedom of the body while fostering a sense of philosophical/emotional resolve to get the most out of life while the opportunity presents.