We often think of movement and posture as being physical aspects of our life that are somewhat seperate from our emotions and our thoughts but the opposite is true. Postural and movement habits are tightly linked with our mind and emotions and being able to understand this connection opens the way to a simple yet effective tool everyone has at their disposal once made aware of it. This article is the tip of the iceberg and dives into the connection and how it can be understood.
Aerial Yoga is an amazing tool for ones overall health whether you are a Yoga practitioner or not. This article focuses specifically on Fly High Yoga which pays a lot of attention to alignment, correct belt placement. Aside from the typical positive effects that can be described this article goes even a bit further and talks about the fact that supported inversions can be used in personald development and to gain access to physically manifest habitual patterns that can be corrected that way.
The most common and logical approach to talk about movement is still to think of muscles that move bones, that again are somehow connected to all the other bodily structures. This is, although by now it is also common knowledge and result of numerous research that this simple approach to human movement is not sufficient to describe all biomechanical aspects, and that it is extremely important to add at the very least the functionality of fascia and bigger myofascial pathways of the body to the equation. It is actually this more holistic point of view that makes it…
Our human bodies are capable of incredible movement diversity and we are built to use it. When we talk about natural movement different thoughts will jump to mind for different people. While some probably instantly see themselves running barefoot through the forest many others probably think of simple every day movement like getting up walking to a neighbor’s house or cooking something. There is certainly also a large number of people who don’t get triggered in any specific way when hearing natural movement simply because they never gave it any thought at all. In the following I will give you some insight into different perspectives and lead on to a definition of it that’s quite functionally oriented.
optimize your gait for efficiency and healthy joints
We all do it on a regular basis and most of us don’t pay attention to it unless we are in pain or feel some sort of discomfort. What I’m talking about is walking. Like all movements, it can be optimized, so that we need less energy and effort and actually enjoy it and its positive effects for the body.
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Healthy walking has numerous health benefits for the whole body.
Some of the health benefits of optimized walking include:
“Everything is connected!” Meanwhile this is a winged word and it is also a true one!
What remains is the question what exactly does it take to connect and more importantly what are the implications of it.
As human beings we are, just like anything else wired for connection. Even more so, connection is one of the most fundamental principles upon which this universe is built. However as humans we have the ability to partially disconnect from our surroundings or at least so it would seem.
Thinking of our body and how well it currently works immediately brings about thoughts on our alignment and posture aswell. Also no matter if you are going to a doctor, physiotherapist, a gym or your Yoga instructor, alignment of the body will most likely come up at some point.
The question now is: “What is natural alignment?”
Beyond Systems is an approach that literally and figuratively lies beyond regular systems and methods of describing and using ones body, mind and consciousness.
To illustrate how “Beyond Systems” relates to the familiar jungle of fitness, movement, therapy and bodywork I formulated this short blog post.
For most, there is probably not that big of a difference between a fitness approach, sports, dance martial arts or movement and yet, a closer observation uncovers interesting differences.
We can agree upon one thing, which is that the physical human body is involved in all of them, like a car is in driving. But to stick with this analogy for a second, using a car can have many different reasons. For some it is a means to get from “A” to “B” in order to survive and buy or sell food, for others, it’s a tool to explore the world and again someone else might just use it for fun because he or she likes driving so much.
