In the lessons I teach, we’re looking at how you can see your body and mind together, holistically. To train or retrain movement patterns as a whole integrated system.
Why is this useful?
It’s easy to focus on the individual parts when you want an easy “fix” for body parts that are troubling you. In reality, all body parts, body and mind are inter-connected. “Fixing” individual symptoms rarely touches the underlying conditions or the habitual movement patterns that have led you to your current situation.
We tend to think of posture as a static body position, or relationship of body parts to each other. Posture is traditionally a societal “correct” relationship between the chest, shoulders and head. But this has little to do with anatomy, or the way we work as a human.
The solution to lasting better posture requires a change of thinking.
You need to think of yourself as more than body parts. Learn to think of yourself in a more holistic way. All of you: a whole system.
On a physical level that means to directly sense your physical self better. To sense how and what you’re doing to move. The more of yourself you can feel, the easier it is to use your whole self in a more ergonomic way.
On a thinking/emotional level: your posture reflects your emotional state. It’s the amalgam of your daily activities, patterns of movement, lifestyle, and thinking. Just as you have habits of movement, you also have habits of thinking and using our emotions. (After all, we have thousands of thoughts and emotions in a single day, but we often get drawn in by the same ones)
And habitual thinking or emotional patterns pull us into habitual postural patterns.
Your posture reflects your whole self image
How you view yourself physically, mentally and emotionally.
When we can recognise the relationships between them, you can improve your posture in a more functional way. For example some postures make us feel better than others.
I teach a way of learning that has to do with unpicking your habits.
Keeping the habits that are useful, and letting go of the ones that aren’t.
Undoing effort to allow your skeleton to function as it should, for example. Rather than pushing ourselves into poses that simply add layers of habit on top of each other.
As usual, I’m taking a break from classes over August, but you’ll have plenty of lessons in the library to keep you busy if you’re a member!
Would you like to work with me? Drop in for your first group lesson for free. Or contact me for a free short discovery consultation. Reply to this email (the best way) or phone (07939277189). If I can’t pick up, leave me a message with some times to reach you.
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