Slide Your Booty Back, Slide Your Booty Forth

For me, placement starts at the pelvis. I have been used to the "tuck your pelvis in" method. However, the problem with that method, I find, is that it activates stuff that you don't necessarily want activated while relaxing what you want working. Something that I found useful though, was a quote that I heard a few months ago. It was centered around this idea of pulling the bones up and forward, as if you put your hands in your pocket and moved them forward. The this does is puts my body in a position that I can keep more efficiently than using my musculature to keep my pelvis tucked. Consequently, with my bones pulled forward, I am given the opportunity to better find my turnout, keep my shoulders over my pelvis over my feet, and smile my pelvis (code phrase for activating the lower and transverse abdominals). Therefore, for me, alignment and placement, in this class in particular, is working through the stagnant place of a behind pelvis by constantly reminding myself to move forward and activate. I am working on gaining a new specific muscle memory.... which is a challenge.