The Imposter Syndrome
Does this sound a familiar headspace to you? It can affect anyone at any time and this inner saboteur sits across all types of personalities and professions. What strategies do we utilise with Movement Intelligence? We use somatic tools and witnessing. Previewing and expanding our spacial orientation with skeletal grounding. We use rhythm (bouncing on our heels), finding our organic pace of breath and being able to sense both our inner and outer environment simultaneously. Co
Testimonial - Somatic Core Stability.
"I went to see Jennifer about my incontinence, she was quick and accurate to detect the causes. I applied the techniques suggested with immediate relief. Thanks Jennifer" Nityamo, Myocum NSW #MovementSolutions #MullumbimbyClasses #Posture #Articles
The effectiveness of Core Stability & Somatic Work.
Below is a testimonial of the stabilising core work that I am playing with. I use the intra abdominal stabilising work of Julie Peck and incorporate the sphincter work of Ruthy Alon and Paula Carbourg. Also, I have made my own creative adaptations from having severe pelvic instability, stress incontinence and surgical resection. It took me over a decade of self exploration and with my students, to find the system of somatic work that I use today. It is so wonderful to see
Will practising a skill in your head make you better at it.
I found this article on Feldenkrais Practitioners Around the World facebook group. Deborah Lotus wrote this and I thought it was too good not to share on this forum. Moshe told us in San Francisco. As he used the word "imagine", he would sometimes substitute "Inner Eye", or "Image of Achievement" (Pribram's term, slightly different). He wanted to explain that you can't "image" something in your head" accurately, unless you have actually done it. So, you could not imagine your
LOST ART OF BENDING OVER: HOW OTHER CULTURES SPARE THEIR SPINE
I pulled this article from a facebook group School for F.M. Alexander Studies. Ria Soemardjo posted this beautiful post. Which so aptly describes how we have lost our capacity to bend over from the hip joints in our culture. This morning in our local class we were playing with the wave response and the reciprocal connection between the two curves of the lumbar and neck. Pressing and pulling with the feet, doing a pelvic clock, initiated from the feet. Then introduced wide
Why Most Doctors Are Dead Wrong About Osteoporosis
An article in Wakeup-world.com February 15th, 2018 By Sayer Ji wakeup-world.com/2018/02/15/why-most-doctors-are-dead-wrong-about-osteoporosis/ February 15th, 2018 By Sayer Ji Contributing writer for Wake Up World What if everything your doctor told you about osteoporosis and osteopenia was wrong? What if osteoporosis was not the
primary cause of fractures in aging
populations? What if both the
definitions of osteoporosis and osteopenia used to justify pharmaceutical treat
Why it's important for all of us to fail
FEBRUARY 3 2018 - written by Ray Steinwall Here is an article I found in this weekends Melbourne Age newspaper. The author is Ray Steinwall. I like the content but I think it is worthwhile here to talk about failure and organic learning in the somatic fields. Failure is a large component of the Movement Intelligence program and is one of the foundational components of somatic learning. A baby learns learns organically by exploring their environment through movement, they ma
Demystifying Osteoarthritis and it’s Billion Dollar Industry.
Here is a wonderful article that Kim Wise from Coffs Harbour wrote a few years back. It is well work worth a read. Imagine if there were an obvious (yet elusive) and simple solution to osteoarthritis. That osteoarthritis is not a disease but more an end result or process of states of dis -ease of the whole being while doing.
If we ever are to have an intimate awareness of our skeleton in the field of gravity osteoarthritis would become extinct would it not? How could that b
The New York Times - by Christopher F. Schuetzejan Feb 2018.
LEUSDEN, Netherlands — The shouts of schoolchildren playing outside echoed through the gymnasium where an obstacle course was being set up. There was the “Belgian sidewalk,” a wooden contraption designed to simulate loose tiles; a “sloping slope,” ramps angled at an ankle-unfriendly 45 degrees; and others like “the slalom” and “the pirouette.” They were not for the children, though, but for a class where the students ranged in age from 65 to 94. The obstacle course was clinic
The $100 Billion per year Back Pain Industry is Mostly a Hoax.
I pulled this article off Cynthia Allen's post on Better Back Facebook group. I just love this link from Cynthia's Facebook page. One thing the article does not mention is that opioid use also relates to anxiety. Of course anxiety often comes with the same territory as back pain. But sometimes, anxiety can stem from a generalised anxiety disorder without back pain and opioids help to turn off the discomfort of physical sensations that come with high levels of anxiety. Here
