Animals move quite well. How are they able to do that while we human animals are plagued with stiffness, immobility and a loss of natural flexibility as we age.
Try this move down below and get your art of movement and moving well… back on track.
Posted by: Gravitywerks | February 20, 2012
Moving Well with the Art of Movement
Posted in Hanna Somtatic Education, somatics exercises | Tags: coordination, flexibility, stiff muscles, walking
Posted by: Gravitywerks | February 17, 2012
Pain and exercise
It only took a few steps before I used to feel the pains in walking. Living with chronic pain was no fun and even though I attempted to exercise, trying to do the right thing… I would pay a price.
Eventually I learned how simple movements using the mind would be a way I could change the pain.
To find out for yourself: you can get some free audio classes and discover a new way to move easily.
Posted in Hanna Somtatic Education, somatics exercises | Tags: exercise, pain, somatics exercises, walking
Posted by: Gravitywerks | February 7, 2012
Hip Pain Relief Move
Been having trouble walking? Sore hip joints?
Here’s a move you can try by using some muscles which lie above the hip.
Somatics exercises are simple moves where we use the brain to intend a movement and we pay attention to what all else is happening as we move.
When we make the connections, which we easily can with a little practice, then our mobility returns, we restore natural flexibility and feel our pains and stiffness melt away.
Posted in Hanna Somtatic Education, somatics exercises | Tags: hip, hip pain, hip pain relief
Posted by: Gravitywerks | February 3, 2012
What is the most important part of exercise
Watch how I stumbled onto the most important part of exercise according to
Mel Siff, author of Facts & Fallacies of Fitness.
Posted in Hanna Somtatic Education, somatics exercises | Tags: brain, exercise, Facts and Fallacies of Fitness, pain
Posted by: Gravitywerks | February 2, 2012
Free the Head and Neck
Try the move and learn a simple hands-on release method to free up one part of the neck.
Posted in Hanna Somtatic Education, somatics exercises | Tags: neck pain, self hands-on bodywork
Posted by: Gravitywerks | January 27, 2012
Un-exercise to better health
Instead of exercise as we know it, the possibility exists for us to un-exercise our way out of stiffness, immobility and pain so exercise becomes easy.
Somatics exericses are quite often the reverse of most exercise systems out there since we focus on using the brain’s ability to release tight, stiff tension patterns which have us feeling immobilized, protecting ourself or tight as a drum
Un-exercise to:
• Take out Stress
• Reduce Tension
• Move Easy
Posted by: Gravitywerks | January 21, 2012
Here’s a Heady Movement
Try this head movement:
That move is called a cervical translation so if you can slide or glide your head across the floor with ease and comfort… that’s a good thing.
If you could feel the connection into your hips, bravo.
If not, a little practice and the connections become clearer.
Posted in Hanna Somtatic Education | Tags: somatics exercises
Posted by: Gravitywerks | January 13, 2012
What’s a pandiculation?
Back in 1680, Herman Boerhaave, the founder of clinical medicine, recognized that a pandiculation returns the muscles to their relaxed places.
Animals have been thought to pandiculate un-consciously… but I’ll have to challenge that. Maybe just maybe, they can feel where their muscles needs a tune-up and they take care of it and move as well as they do.
To read more on pandiculating.
Posted in Pandiculatoin
Posted by: Gravitywerks | December 30, 2011
What in the heck are somatics exercises?
Ed Barrera from Gravity Werks briefly talks about what somatics exerciese are. Check out this video: http://ping.fm/T3zf5
Often times he’ll call the un-exercises since they are designed to un-do muscular stiffness and un-wind bound up muscles.
Posted in Hanna Somtatic Education, somatics exercises | Tags: Fitness, flexibility, somatics exercises
Posted by: Gravitywerks | December 22, 2011
More bad news on stretching
Just a note from your divorce counselor for stretching…
Even in Australia… stretching is getting a bad rap. See: http://ping.fm/IBKmo
Posted in Stretching | Tags: stretching
