A non-hanging “hanging” class aimed to restore our mobility and strength in the right areas to eventually carry your bodyweight from your arms.
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This class series is based on a demonstration by Thomas Meyers (Anatomy Trains) where he illustrates how the movements of the eyes from infancy guide the development of movements with the whole body.
In Part 4 we use the sequence of movement with an eye toward Yoga to explore how each position is an opportunity to explore some possible postures and stretches of yoga and how a sequence of movement itself can become a yoga flow.
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This class series is based on a demonstration by Thomas Meyers (Anatomy Trains) where he illustrates how the movements of the eyes from infancy guide the development of movements with the whole body.
In Part 3 we use the sequence of movement with an eye toward Natural Human Movement to explore how each position is also an opportunity to explore locomotion in the context of not just looking at but also reaching for an object.
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This class series is based on a demonstration by Thomas Meyers (Anatomy Trains) where he illustrates how the movements of the eyes from infancy guide the development of movements with the whole body.
In Part 1 we introduce the sequence of movement that brings us from supine (on the back), to prone (on the belly) propped on our elbows, to sitting, to quadruped (all fours), to squatting/kneeling, all the way to standing. Then we reverse the pattern back to the floor.
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The muscles around and within the eyes, just like any other muscles, need regular movement to stay healthy. Also, there's a tendency for the body to move in the direction of the eyes - which is fine unless you need to look one way but intend for your body to go another. The visual system also assists with balance. In this class we'll explore the motions of the eyes, work on the dexterity to move the body and eyes independently of one another, and play with how changing our removing our visual cues can help develop better balance coordination.
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This is a variation on another class in the library called "Move Your Tube". Developing awareness on how bends and "kinks" in our torso can affect our breathing. Moving our ribs and the parts that connect to our torso for better health overall and also for a freer breath.
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Putting 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.
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This class is an exploration of instinctual resting postures as illustrated by a physiotherapist, Michael Tetley. The premise is that our modern life lacks the pressure deforming movements that would occur if we lived in nature without the modern conveniences of soft, cushy couches and beds. The movements caused by putting pressure on our bodies, which is the same reason we get massage, can help relieve tension, increase lymph movement, and even reset our spines. Here we'll explore some of those instinctual resting postures and add some stretch and restorative exercise to them in a sequence of movement flow
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The 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.
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Resistance 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.
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A 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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