In all my years of dancing, yoga, athletics and other movement practices, I had never heard the term, base of support. In fact, it held no real significance to me until I took a two year advanced training in Seattle with Jeff Haller. Bit by bit, I began to understand my relationship with the ground and how it influenced every move I made.  I was either falling off my base of support and catching myself over and over and over again, or, in a better world, I was poised over my base of support  to make my next move without falling. This training set me on a course of unimaginable discoveries and insights into the unconscious and habitual movement patterns that were governing my every move. Over time and with practice, I learned to tune-in and listen closely to those patterns and  when I did, my…