We Want What We See (Or Once Were)
Catherine Cowey Bigger, better, faster, stronger this is what we hear on the daily. The incessant call to accomplish more, and push harder echoes across our culture. This message is inherent in a capitalistic, production based, able-bodied, early bird society. Many of my clients, several of whom are ex-athletes, but also deal with chronic […]
The Space for Curiosity (& Excitement)
Nick Konow View this post on Instagram A post shared by N I C K K O N O W (@worldmvmnt) [Feature Photo by Cristina Gottardi on Unsplash.]
What is the Function of a Movement Practice?
Jason Round [Feature Photo by tiagojoaoreis on Unsplash]
Wear & Repair
Brandon Chien “Wear and tear” is such a poor outlook on the body. Think Wear AND repair, and you’ll be in rhythm with your body. A little bit of chaos in your life gives your body a reason to heal. The gifts of our youth can be renewed by doing what we fear at […]
Expectations & Experience
Craig Mallett One of the things I run into a lot while teaching are loaded expectations. It’s when we have a preconceived idea of how it’s all meant to go, and are looking for some sort of specific experience from the training. It’s a very normal starting point, but If this escalates, it […]
Reality, Principles, & Rules
Brendan Lea An earlier, tangential video on aligning self to principles to yield results: [Feature Photo by Jossuha Théophile on Unsplash.]
Building a Multidirectional Perspective
Ramon Castellanos Go Forth and Prosper “Go forth” is a daily devotion we all pay allegiance to, just by the virtue of being human, even if we are unaware of doing so. For the nature of each human life is to orientate forward, and face that which is in front of us. The forces of nature and deep […]
Gender Fluid Acts
Margot Ciccarelli View this post on Instagram A post shared by Margot Ciccarelli | Mars (@margotciccarelli)
Productivity & Letting Yourself Win
Samantha Faulhaber Dr. Caroline Webb is a behavioral economist that wrote the book How to Have a Good Day. In it, she documents the ways she’s helped private clients and CEOs to better their overall experience in life, take the reins and make things happen on their terms. Things like taking a walk when […]
Holistic & Honing
Amelia Chan One word that got thrown around a lot in the early 2000’s was “holistic”. The official definition of “holistic” is “characterized by the belief that the parts of something are interconnected and can be explained only by reference to the whole.” The trend was very much about doing things that were supposed […]
Effortlessness & Interruption
Nick Konow View this post on Instagram A post shared by N I C K K O N O W (@worldmvmnt)
Being Half Right
Christine Ruffolo I was so close. I had felt and figured and whittled and realized. I had my longest running issue narrowed down to a dysfunctional half of the pelvic floor. It was just the wrong half. I was convinced that it was my right and gave multiple reasons as to why, BUT my […]
Similar Same #1: Neck Extension
A series looking at different means to say/ do the same things. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Austin Einhorn | Apiros (@austineinhorn_) View this post on Instagram A post shared by Human Animation (@briangfox) [Feature Photo by Olga Drach on […]
Stage Fright & the Nervous System (Part 2)
Amelia Chan [Part One] I cannot even tell you how often students come to me asking for a lesson right before an audition or a performance. Or this: I’ll contact you for a lesson when I’ve practiced and “learned” my piece/program. It is such a classical music world thing where all our lives, […]
Stage Fright & the Nervous System (Part 1)
Amelia Chan Just a few thoughts on this huge topic. When it comes to stage fright, first of all I’d like to point out that what I personally find to be a key missing element from most discussions is the WHAT it is. All the following are valid elements in the cause of stage […]
Giving AF (Part 3): Environments for Exploration
Jereme Sanders Part 1: Trust & Honesty Part 2: Awareness Before Advice Through building this circle of awareness we can more effectively share discoveries rather than simple techniques. For example, often times in my own life it has been discovering the epiphany of a new technique, a breakthrough in strength/mobility or the overcoming […]
Giving AF (Part 2): Awareness Before Advice
Jereme Sanders Part 1: Trust and Honesty “To give a person an opinion one must first judge well whether that person is of the disposition to receive it or not” – Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure The next step, which should be happening concurrently with the first, is that of our awareness of the […]
Giving AF (Part 1): Trust & Honesty
Jereme Sanders [AF in this instance means ‘Actionable Feedback’, but secondary title to this series is “Student Centered Teaching Practices”] As a teacher we want to make sure we find the right answers for the problems that arise in our students. The answer may not always be the ones we are used to, […]
Cultivating a Skeptical Mind
Craig Mallett Despite diving quite deeply into an esoteric tradition of spiritual cultivation, I was and still am a very skeptical person by nature. If someone talks to me toting stories about enlightenment and energetic prowess, I’m even now usually inclined towards doubt, or at the very least to see it as just a […]
Why Muscle Imbalances Happen (and What You Can Do About Them)
Tom Morrison When you have knowledge of training, the body, how to deal with flexibility limitations, injuries (past or present) and muscular differences, you can fall into the trap of having “too much information”… and pretty much over complicate everything, making you think you are “dysfunctional” in multiple ways – which is rarely the […]