Change your Focus

How does a movement specialist fit in your overall health solution

How does a movement specialist fit into your overall health solution? As many doctors in the industry recognize, western medicine has marginal approaches for neuromuscular conditions that consist of drugs to mask pain, surgery, devices (braces etc.), and exercises that often exacerbate the problem. Physical Therapy works specifically with the injured area to strengthen the muscles which has some short-term benefit but in the longer term does not fix the problem. 

A movement specialist works with the whole body organization in movement to address the patterns of movement that CAUSED the injury or condition. This approach addresses the cause of the problem and shows you how to prevent it from occurring again by changing HOW your body moves.

Pain - a fresh approach

We all experience physical pain in our bodies but what we do about it is not often the best approach to resolve it. Read on for a fresh perspective on how you might respond to pain in the future.... Download Pain- a fresh look

Walk or run in balance through your structure

View this video for tips on how to walk or run in balance through the center of your structure. If you like this tip please rate it and comment on it!

Walk or run in gravity and in balance

A new video showing you how to move in gravity working with it. Very important to save energy if you are a runner or hike long distances. If you like this tip please rate it and comment.

More hula hooping too. That is also on my facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nevada-City-CA/Designed-for-Movement/177215050339 .

Week 3 of our Samba training is on my facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nevada-City-CA/Designed-for-Movement/177215050339 . Check it out and you be the judge on our improvements!

Samba week 2!

OK, here is week 2 of our Samba dance experiment. I think there is some improvement, but you be the judge!

Learn to hula hoop baseline video

Using hula hooping as a way to learn to train our bodies in coordinated, synchronized movement that is elegant, graceful and fluid. This is our baseline video of our process from today. We will update this each week to see how we are progressing and whether it is possible for ladies in their 50's to move just like the young kids!

Check our video progress week to week:

Learn to Samba baseline video

Ok, here is our baseline video of learning how to samba dance. The video is Anne, Kay and Jackie. We will post once a week for 3 months and see how we are progressing. Our learning is how to move our bodies by what muscles to release and how to loosen joints for greater flexibility.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obtdrqXRN8I

Quality movement looks good!

When I watch the brazilian samba dancers I want to move just like they do. I can repeat movements over and over but if I don't change how I am moving in terms of releasing muscles then I will never move like they do. My goal is to move like a native Brazilian dancer. I will post videos each week to see how close I am getting to it by focussing on the quality of how I move. You can be the judge.