This is the second in the series of articles looking at the variety of ways we can use the Half Moon Vector (HMV) through the legs. Let’s explore… 

How Is your client’s field organized?

This is a big topic! There are multiple signs and signals that can give you information about your client’s field. This article will focus on how available the person’s energy is.

How do you obtain the information? 

Pay attention to the weight of the client’s legs when you first pick them up. Are they too heavy? Too light? Just right?

Sometimes it’s easy to notice. You pick the client’s legs up and the weight doesn’t match the size. For example, a very small or thin person’s legs feel very heavy. Or a larger person’s legs feel very light.

Sometimes it’s the difference between the first and second HMV that gets your attention. You didn’t notice much during the first HMV, but with the second, you notice the legs seem to feel lighter or heavier. 

How can you use this information to guide your session? 

Because we know the balance between structure and energy improves as we move through the session, a change in either direction means an improvement. If the legs have become lighter, it’s likely the field was more contracted or congested during the first HMV. If the legs have become heavier, it’s likely the person was somewhat disembodied earlier in the session. In both instances, more energy has become available to the client. The client has become more available to themselves.  

Once we identify the field is contracted or the person is disembodied, we can tailor our ZB session more directly to their needs. A contracted field often responds well to a more expansive session, more energetic touch, longer fulcrums, longer pauses. Embodiment can be facilitated by a more structural touch and shorter, peppier sessions. There are also specific fulcrums that may help, such as the field fulcrums from Geometry of Healing. The acetabular field fulcrum or moving the field through the hip can encourage embodiment while fulcrums that open windows are very expansive.   

A case example: 

Many years ago I worked with a client who had suffered a severe stroke that paralyzed the left side of her body. She’d made a remarkable recovery and had regained her ability to walk. She described knowing that she was much better but still feeling paralyzed on the inside of her body. She wanted her inside experience to match her outside experience. In her first ZB session, during the first HMV, I was struck by the difference in the weight of her legs. Her left leg was way too light, while her right leg felt fairly normal. Her left side was disembodied. By the end of that session, her left leg had filled in just a little. With each subsequent ZB session, her left leg “gained weight.” And it was amazing to watch her progression! After 8 sessions, the weight of her legs felt equal and she said she felt normal, inside and outside. 

This is important. My main focus was to give her a good Core ZB, just like we learn in ZB I and II. I paid particular attention to the HMVs so I could track the changes in the growing embodiment of her left side. What I did not do is try to make her legs feel equal when I gave her an HMV. 

How might you improve your skills?

Every week, choose one or two sessions in which you pay particular attention to the weight of the client’s legs, noticing any changes between the first, second, and last HMV as well as changes across several sessions. Have fun and let me know how it goes!