This is part 2 of the workshop, Just Hanging Around, designed to develop our ability to hang from our arms. In this class we work on more exercises for both mobilizing and stabilizing our parts to make our hanging more efficient as well as introducing Natural Movement techniques for swinging and climbing.
Read MoreA non-hanging “hanging” class aimed to restore our mobility and strength in the right areas to eventually carry your bodyweight from your arms.
Read MoreIn this class, we'll define neutral shoulder blades in a position that helps keep both the joints of the shoulders and the upper spine more stable, and then we'll explore both how to strengthen that position of the scapula, and how to develop a better coordination of moving the arm utilizing more of the shoulder joint itself.
Read MoreHow we tend to hold our shoulders throughout the day can affect all around the upper body - from the hands to the neck to the upper spine. If we tend to hold the shoulders in one position much of the time (think typing, reading, driving, utensil use, smartphone use), it's important to spend a lot of time moving the arms in the other direction. In this class, we'll talk about "neutral" for the shoulder rotation (watching the "elbow pits") and explore ways to move and stretch the parts around the shoulder so that they can "unstick" from each other.
Read MorePutting your hands on the ground and carrying some of your weight with the arms is common with many natural movements and exercises. However, when the load is great, it is easy to skip over tense and underused parts of us, and it is difficult to see the details of our movement and learn how to develop better muscle use and stability. We can practice many of the same movements by taking the load off and putting our hands on the wall. The wall is a great place to use your arms in varied ways and it is also a great place to practice using and moving your hips.
Read MoreAn exploration of many of the parts that affect your breathing. Noticing how certain habits and tension in the body can stop us from breathing fully. Learning how to release the diaphragm, use torsional rib breathing, and stretch the arm muscles that can pull on the rib cage. Lots of relaxing deep breaths in this class!
Read MoreDisentangling the tensions and "stickiness" of the tissues between the fingers and the neck.
Read MoreThe habitual positioning of our body (mainly chairs) and the shortening of the muscle lengths that result from it can lead to strain and tension in certain areas when we do the simplest action of laying down on the ground. It's why people often report neck and back pain while laying down. In this class we'll look at how to realign our posture and how to iron out all those kinks so that we can elongate to our fullest length while laying down.
Read MoreResistance to movement in small parts of the body (ie: the fingers) have an effect on the larger motions. We can observe how hand tension can result in neck tension and vice versa and also how tension in one area can cause us to compensate and use other parts of the body differently. In this case we'll play a game for shoulder mobility, and then we'll work on getting more movement in all the parts of the chain from the fingers to the neck.
Read MoreA look at how alignment can help us move more of our body in our physical activities. This class will focus on the common yoga pose, downward dog. We'll see how limitations in our ranges of motion are causing us to avoid moving certain joints and how using alignment markers can help us get more movement and strength overall.
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