This exercise is hard on so many levels. The stomach muscles kill. I'm trying to lift the legs up towards my face and stop them falling sideways. And always with the lift I felt like I could get them up to a certain point and then not know how to pull the knees up and over. It's hard when you don't feel. And when he grabs hold of me and helps - again he still knows at what level I'm making the effort and keeps me at maximum - this is so that I can remember how it happens and make the connection between movement and feeling.
Often I will find myself asking him, how do you do this or that movement? When you do such and such, which muscle is it that moves or pulls, etc? It's funny that you can forget. But then it's not really forgetting. Most of our movements are instinctive: we don't think about what it is that we do. So I'm having to retrain my muscles on a conscious level, unlike a baby. Pretty tall order, and one requiring a lot of attention and thought.