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Interpretations of Other’s Work

 

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Workshops

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An Attentive Walk & Talk

Christine Ruffolo In an unassuming day in July 2022, I attended a workshop entitled “The Musicality of Being” in Washington ...
Yogd

Yoga Detour: Integrated Upper Body

Christine Ruffolo Cecily Milne is the mind behind yoga detour, movement education that encourages the yoga population to go beyond ...
Vagus1

Safety & Behavior

Christine Ruffolo The following is part one of my course notes and findings from Stress, Movement, and Pain. Linked through ...
Ball4

The Work of Bal-A-Vis-X

Christine Ruffolo Please note that this is documenting one person’s experience with a single Bal-A-Vis-X training weekend.  Like any other ...
Almog

Almog Loven Part 1: Physical

Christine Ruffolo I got to the Finnish Hall early.  I always get there early, especially on the first day.  I ...
Rolfing

An Introduction to Rolfing

Christine Ruffolo A community class titled, “Self-Care for the Nervous System” made it’s way into my facebook feed and given ...
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Matan Levowich

Christine Ruffolo Matan Levkowich is a dancer, choreographer, and martial artist.  Another of the incredible Israeli movers, he is able ...
Ido

Inside Ido’s EMM

Christian Paev European Movement Meeting, August 2018. Lisbon, Ginasio de Portuguese. 7 floor facility for movement-purposes. We occupied 3 studios ...
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Tom Weksler

Christine Ruffolo Tom Weksler’s Movement Archery workshop was a lesson in angular momentum.  We rolled, we spun, we bruised our pointy ...
Diana

Form Follows Function

Christine Ruffolo Form Follows Function was a 6-hour Axis Syllabus themed workshop that combined elements of anatomy, contact improv, and ...
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Hunting Surprise through Axis Syllabus

Dare Sohei Surprise is a chimera of sensations and emotions. With the head of Desire, wings of Anticipation, and the ...

 

Feldenkrais

Seth

Functional Integration (Passive Feldenkrais)

Seth Dellinger When you visit a Feldenkrais practitioner for an individual hands-on session, that’s called Functional Integration. Why?! So I’ve heard, ...
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Meditation, Feldenkrais, & the Beginner’s Mind

Seth Dellinger The benefits of meditation include: better brain functioning and attention span stress reduction and sounder sleep improved functioning ...
Music

The Musicality of Being

Seth Dellinger Space, ground, breath & sound Resonance Musicality Is there a formula for feeling connected – to yourself, to other people, ...
Belief

A Raw and Honest Wavering of Belief

Nadia Genois I haven’t written anything in a long time. When I joined this project, I had expectations. I wanted ...
Xtrain

Connecting Feldenkrais with Pole

Nadia Genois This has been a long time coming. It seemed it should have been easy, connecting two passions together ...
Whyfeld

Why Feldenkrais?

Nadia Genois « A healthy person is one who can fully live their unavowed dreams » 3 Why Feldenkrais ? Learning. Curiosity. Awareness ...
Autopilot

Are You on Autopilot?

Christian Rabhansl I see this article as an approach to explain the Feldenkrais Method from a specific angle. These thoughts ...
Feldenkrais

A Feldenkrais Experience

Christine Ruffolo In a top floor studio space that felt more like a cozy attic, I had a revelation. A ...

 

Fighting Monkey

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FM Coordinations

Miguel Viero ...
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Recycling Energy

Miguel Viero View this post on Instagram A post shared by Miguel Viero (@miguelviero_) ...
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Coordination Practice

Miguel Viero View this post on Instagram A post shared by Miguel Viero (@miguelviero.moov) ...
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Morning Practice

Miguel Viero View this post on Instagram A post shared by Miguel Viero (@miguelviero.moov) ...
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Hand-Foot Coordination

Fanny Tulloch View this post on Instagram Hand-Foot coordination ⁣ ⁣ Coordination is seriously important to the efficiency by which ...
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A Simple Strap

Miguel Viero View this post on Instagram Juegos estratégicos. Enraizamento de pies. Distribución de carga. Organización estructural. Juega Observa Relaja ...
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Ball on Block Tasks

Miguel Viero View this post on Instagram Ideas de Situaciones Jogos Tareas de movimiento. ⠀ Una pelota de tenis (u ...
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Footwork & Force

Miguel Viero View this post on Instagram «Pies ignorados. Raíces olvidadas. La posición de los pies y la distancia entre ...
Linda

Critical Look #2 – Fighting Monkey

Christine Ruffolo ‘Critical Look’ challenges the way systemic information is presented and questions the story being told. Personal background with ...
Chandfm

Becoming Yourself

Chandler Stevens Why does it take us so long to be ourselves? How can a movement practice bring us a ...
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Elderly ‘Exercise’

Michael Ryan Recorded conversation with my teacher, Jozef Frucek. Dated December 10th 2016. There’s no denying what Jozef is saying, ...
Mr

Fighting Monkey Athletic Development

Michael Ryan Creative challenges of space, tracking, and coordination #athletictraining #sportsperformance #precision #sensitivity #perception #reaction #timing #rhythm #coordination #neuroplasticity #exposure ...
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The World of Fighting Monkey Part 2

Christine Ruffolo **Part One of this series can be found here. Engaging with your work demands a certain degree of ...
Fighting Monkey

The World of Fighting Monkey

Christine Ruffolo Doing without knowing. Playing, creating, learning. Adjusting and adapting. Describing Fighting Monkey is an act in organizing verbs ...

 

Functional Range Conditioning

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Joint Specific Band Work

Brian Fox View this post on Instagram A post shared by Human Animation (@briangfox) View this post on Instagram A ...
Neck

Neck Flexion Assessment

Brian Fox View this post on Instagram A post shared by Human Animation (@briangfox) ...
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I Hate CARs

Samantha Faulhaber View this post on Instagram A post shared by Samantha Faulhaber (@shamanicsam) ...
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Length Loading Progression

Brian Fox View this post on Instagram A post shared by Human Animation (@briangfox) ...
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Passive to Active Tissue Lengthening

Brian Fox [Description below.] Affect connective tissue architecture by training at length for 2+ minutes. Intent: Passively acquire length then ...
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Cross-Contextual Spine Training

Brian Fox View this post on Instagram A post shared by Human Animation (@briangfox) View this post on Instagram A ...
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Lumbar Segmentation

Brian Fox View this post on Instagram A post shared by Human Animation (@briangfox) ...
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Mobility Instruction

Nicki Miller A snippet and a class. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Nicki Miller (@nickimillergram) View ...
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Treatment & Tissue Quality

Brian Fox View this post on Instagram Keep an eye on these two in treatments and in training, they’ve been ...
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Injury, Fatigue, & Fast Twitch Fibers

Brian Fox View this post on Instagram 🦵🏼Research has shown that when a tissue or tissues get injured, the slow ...
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A More Logical Neck CAR

Jeremy Fein View this post on Instagram ? Sagittal Neck CARs ? – If you’re sleeping on Functional Range Systems, ...
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Countering Doctor’s Advice

Brian Fox View this post on Instagram ?A doctor’s course of action for “self care” of drop foot may entail ...
Bfox

Neurological Tension & Expanding Range

Brian Fox View this post on Instagram On our journey to increase physical capacities, my client and I aimed our ...
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Functional Range Systems – Hip Internal Rotation

Brian Fox ASSESS View this post on Instagram #Repost @jquintnmt with @get_repost ・・・ This is first of several videos between ...
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Critical Look #1 – FRC

Christine Ruffolo ‘Critical Look’ challenges the way systemic information is presented and questions the story being told. Personal background with ...
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FR Systems Movement Coaching

Brian Fox FR Systems & Kettlebell coaching. ➡FRA (Spine): Low back pain. Kyphotic, hinge points at cervical level 5/6, T12/L1 ...
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FRC 101: An Elegant Framework for Improving Mobility

Chandler Stevens Functional Range Conditioning (FRC) is an empirically-driven thought process around mobility developed by Dr. Andreo Spina.  After attending ...
Decoding

Decoding PAILs and RAILs

Christine Ruffolo The one flaw in the Functional Range Conditioning system is its heavy use of acronyms. It has created ...
Getting Articular

Getting Articular Independence

Christine Ruffolo As examined in my previous post, joint function defines what kind of movements you are prepared to perform ...
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The NEW Joint-By-Joint Approach

Christine Ruffolo The popular — and still conceptually relevant — joint-by-joint approach championed a decade ago lent logic to the idea that ...
Dre

Exploring Controlled Articular Rotations (CARs)

Christine Ruffolo Controlled Articular Rotations (CARs) are the entrance point to Dr. Andreo Spina’s Functional Range Conditioning system: They are ...
Interesting Science

The Interesting Science Behind Functional Range Conditioning

Christine Ruffolo Functional Range Conditioning (FRC) is a system of creating, controlling, and expanding useable range of motion, defined as ...
Spinalift Off

Lift-Offs and Passive Holds

Christine Ruffolo Systemized by functional range conditioning (FRC), lift-offs are an ingenious way to focus on stability to achieve gains ...

 

MovNat

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MovNat Course Ideas

Kim & Melissa View this post on Instagram Structured sessions are nice. So are free-flowing where you make it up ...
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MovNat Level 1

Christine Ruffolo The two-day level one workshop is designed to give participants entrance level skills of walking, hanging, crawling, jumping, ...

 

Postural Restoration Institute

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Retro Stairs

Aaron Hague ...
Apri

PRI-ing the Core

Aaron Hague Note the breathing cadence on each ...
Zone Of Apposition

Postural Restoration : A Review

Tyler Wall The human body is an amazing, beautiful, extraordinary, asymmetrical, and resilient piece of organic machinery.  The more I ...
Pri2

PRI: The Big Three

Christine Ruffolo Postural Restoration addresses the anatomical imbalances of the body by inhibiting certain areas by position and purposefully engaging ...
Ribhump

An Introduction to PRI: Sagittal Plane Dysfunction

There are a multitude of different corrective methods out there that seek to improve joint position, therefore affecting joint stability, ...

 

Systema

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Space Shifting

Andre Miller View this post on Instagram Toes to wall overhead atg squat for mobility. Form cues intended to maintain ...
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Softness vs. Stiffness

Andre Miller View this post on Instagram Una ejercisios combinacion fantasica. Es sola un combinacion de ejersisios entre un multitudes ...
Waves

The Seven Systema Principles of Breathing

Andre Miller Breath is The Great Communicator within the body. Awareness is the product of electrical potentiation within the nervous ...
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Breath, Kinetic Energy, Creativity

Andre Miller Good people of the Earth! Coming to you live and direct from a bit earlier today, it’s #rootsfitness ...
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Systema – Basics and Developing Ideas

Andre Miller Systema is a Russian martial art based on fluidity and effortless movement.  The following games and demonstrations hope ...

 

Z-Health

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A Weekend with Z Health

A Weekend with Z Health, by Jeremy Fein I got glasses when I was 3, and started wearing them when ...