C8 Again

There is an automation attached to the nerve section C8 (located in the bottom of the neck).

Concentrating on C8, I raise my vertebra from C2 and move my head and neck up and back. This move is easily done and also holds a sort of an automatism. It results in a pulling under of the sacrum. All the while I make sure that, in the process, L1 moves if at all back and not forward.

Next (and this is what I would like to report here) without any further input from my side my sternum rises and pushes my shoulders back. As I sit in a chair and watch these reactions, I can see what I feel. My hands move, visibly.

Here now is, what I ask myself. Does my shoulders' peculiar reaction have to do with autonomous muscles and how they function? Is this particular way of calling on C2 and C8 a clue to accessing autonomous muscle actions, to understand them and make them teachable?

It does not come as a surprise to me, that a control of human autonomous muscles and the control of the horse in a suspected original inner circuit of communication should originate from one spot: C8.