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Although I do my best to share what I can with the community on social media, part of my message is also this:
Don’t worry about maintaining a presence online if you’re out living your life and being present in the moment.
Don’t worry about how you’re perceived if you’re feeling good in your body with what you’re doing.
Being in alignment with your body and life is not always what culturally looks good but what helps you function best.
Are you breaking social media? Or taking a break from social media?

I often think of learning movement skills like learning a new language. there’s many components and moves that are like the alphabet and vocabulary. Eventually you learn to string them together in a coherent or effective structure. this is often called flow… So should we learn to move through structured schooling or should we learn through “just doing”- copying, experimenting and being in motion?

The catch as I see it is we are not coming to “movement school” from an infant's stage.

A beautiful saying in the Natural Movement movement is “Be Fit to be Useful”. It suggests that our fitness isn’t for its own sake but becomes applicable in the actions we take in the world.
The amazing fact is that with some awareness and practice, the actions we take in the world will also make us more fit! This is an example of “stacking” - where one activity can serve multiple purposes.
I’d love to put this in action with some meetups in the coming months!

I’ve been listening to what others have been saying and I hear that silence is not an option if you wish to align with justice, peace, equality, health and love. I hear that it’s no longer enough to know within yourself that you are not racist (although, to some extent, most of us certainly are) but for any meaningful change to occur it is now necessary to be anti-racist…

The name of my site for my movement coaching is “In Aligned Movement”. This has been about movement and alignment of the body. It also incorporates aligning how you wish to move through life. Now, I see it could also be about aligning with social movements as well…

I’m not sure how I will accomplish this, but here’s a start…

I have a proposal for you all!

Would you like to join me for a walk?

What I’m envisioning:

Specifically, I am embarking upon the creation of an E-course that guides us toward better health through walking.

But instead of giving you exercises to do while at home or at a gym, I’d like this to be something you can take with you out on your walk….

Our modern habitats are an evolutionary mismatch with the requirements for our bodies’ health.

We try to offset the dearth of movement in our lives through exercise. Exercise is good and fun and helpful. However, the amount of time spent exercising cannot outweigh the amount of time spent in an environment that encourages sedentarism (an inactive lifestyle). It’s just a numbers game…

But what if we could change the paradigm? What if we could rethink the need for and repurpose the use of our furniture? What if we became aware of the need for more movement and then saw the opportunities for movement all around us?

This was the intention of this instagram challenge: To start a discussion and look at how we may change our home environment to one that encourages health in our bodies…

In this era, when all our routines are up-ended and even some of our livelihoods are in question, what do we do to maintain our wellbeing? Do we deal with stress and uncertainty by binging on food, substances, netflix, sleep? When are those things appropriate for “letting go” and relieving stress or when are those things distractions and/or even self-abuse?
I wanted to provide a space to offer self-care rituals, tips, and routines for our well-being. I was curious what I could offer and what others do to keep centered, their energy balanced, and spirits high. I wanted to bring to the conversation how fitness is only a small part of our self-care (just like “exercise” is only a small part of movement).
Here’s what I explored, learned, left out, and my 5 tips for developing a self-care routine

If we can first see that the set-up of society may itself be sick, I think that’s a profound first step toward finding true solutions?

But what then?

I’m writing at the time of social distancing during the Corona Virus epidemic, and like many, I’m finding myself at home, without my regular work schedule, and at first I started to scramble to recreate my usual schedule with even extra appointments and classes online. The process of that felt overwhelming and brought up lots of anxiety.

Then I remembered a line from a poem by David Whyte: “This world was made to be free in…”