It's not just today we need to be looking out for when we are choosing between the floor and a chair, when we are choosing between corrective exercises and stiffer shoe, when we are choosing between sitting on the sacrum or rolling the pelvis forward, when we are choosing between a walk and mindless time on the internet.
It's tomorrow, too.
If you're like almost every single client or student of mine, then my guess is that when you think you are *fixing* your hyperkyphosis and your internal rotation and the glummyness in your shoulder girdle, what you are really doing is *HIDING* it.
Read MoreIs a desire to "get it just right" interfering with the ability to just "get it"?
Read MoreHave you run into those limits in yourself? Those places where maybe you freak out about your body? Or you lose your shit with your partner or kid? Or you punish yourself in some way or another?
Read MoreThe second child in as many years left my body unexpectedly this last week. This time, when I realized I was miscarrying, I spent time thinking about what I wanted this experience to be like. Or rather, who I wanted to be in this experience. How I wanted to show up to it.
Read MoreOur feet are important. They contain 1/4 of all the bones in the body and an absurd amount of joints, muscles, ligaments and tendons. For most of us, they are the primary way we have of moving our bodies across the earth.
Read MoreHave you experienced something in your body that fills you with fear and pain and a sense of failure? Have you felt so angry at how your body has betrayed you? Have you felt so hopeless and demoralized?
Read MoreWhat if better sex was about better connection with yourself?
Read MoreSo here we are at the playground and a pre-school group shows up to play - mostly 4 and 5 year olds. Three girls come over to my son and wonder why he's not wearing shoes. One informs me that it's dangerous for him to be barefoot.
Read MoreMost of us, due the the lifestyle habits we have - anyone on a device right now?! ;) - have limitations in our shoulder girdles, chests and backs that alter our breathing mechanics. The good news is that we can start working on that immediately. I made you a quick video to help you get started:
Read MoreI realized this week that there are some things that I take for granted, that I tend to assume every other movement teacher already has or does or is. It turns out a few things combine into a unique alchemy in me.
Read MoreWhat's your purpose for doing the classic runner's quad stretch? Quad lengthening is what most of us are after. But what if your quad stretch isn't really doing that? Come explore in this video post.
Read MoreMaybe you hurt, feel scared, or doubt you have what it takes to really start living IN your body. Things aren't working. Maybe you are tired of trying to change. Maybe you are afraid of change. You want to move forward but you're not sure it's even worth it. The other (minimal) shoe is bound to drop.
Read MoreBeliefs drive our actions and movement is an action. Therefore, if you want to really start moving and stop hurting, you're going to need to deal with the beliefs that are sustaining your current ailments.
Read More"When energy is blocked in a woman's root [pelvis], either by physical tension, emotional burden, past trauma, or long-term patters of core energy imbalance, it inhibits the energy flow in her life." - Tami Lynn Kent
Read MoreYour body is the vessel that enables, supports, gives life to everything else that interests you and brings you pleasure and satisfies your curiosity in this beautiful life. It's the container through which you solve your problems and explore your world. You want a good life? Take care of this beautiful, physical gift.
Read MoreWhat does it mean to love the body? What does love for the body look like? Feel like? How can you know if you are being loving to your body?
Read MoreI'm the first person to say that we need to meet ourselves where we are and honor our inner state, be it grief over a miscarriage, fatigue from an illness or total overwhelm from parenting young ones. But when you are ready - and maybe even before you really think you are ready - there will be a tree waiting for you. I hope you give it a climb.
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