To P-DTR or Not To P-DTR (That’s Not the Question)
Matea Sedlaček I am one of those who went through the whole P-DTR (proprioceptive-deep tendon reflex) education, without ever using it in practice after. If I were to tell it to any of my colleagues from the course, who are using it daily, the comment might be: “You wasted your time!” (and big money), […]
Three Exercises Everybody Needs (Part 2)
Samantha Faulhaber This one is the one about meeting God, or – freeing up your frozen, locked-up back. Keep it in your back pocket please if you ever experience a need for such things and send it to someone else if they have a similar malady/desire. If you’re feeling a frozen feeling around a […]
Pride & Prejudice
Nicole Uno Pride and Prejudice; movement edition. We are human. Let us assume that we have to some degree, a functioning brain. This brain likes to be organized so that it can efficiently keep you safe- quickly evaluate the environment and make decisions about the possible dangers or threats. We then try to create […]
Feldenkrais Meets Skinner Technique
Christian Rabhansl “Never lie. Never say that something has moved you if you are still in the same place.” (Winderson, 1997). It must have been around the summer of 2015. I took part in a dance class with Lily Kiara and Julie Nathanielsz. The technique is called “Skinner Releasing Technique,” named after Joan Skinner. […]
CNS Stretching
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Trauma Sensitive Language & Allowance
Nicki Miller View this post on Instagram A post shared by Movement Missing Links (@movement.missing.links) A friendly reminder that trauma-sensitivity is a real thing and makes a difference in how people show up in their bodies. The same nervous system that is holding on to trauma is the same one responsible […]
A Safe Environment to Learn Skating
Sevinc Gökçe English Translation: Football fields with artificial grass are ideal for children who are interested in skating or skateboarding, to get used to the balance of the tools and do standing up/climbing exercises. A safe space for them to experience for themselves without you holding on. At this point, it doesn’t matter whether he […]
Resistance & Change
Jenn Pilotti Have you ever tried to help someone, only to be met by what feels like a brick wall as the person stubbornly digs their heels in and, without actually saying it, resists your words of wisdom? Or maybe the person just can’t seem to do what you ask and you aren’t sure […]
End Range Training for Hypermobiles
Catherine Cowey View this post on Instagram A post shared by Catherine Cowey (@catherinecowey) How hypermobile are you? View this post on Instagram A post shared by Catherine Cowey (@catherinecowey)
Freeing Up A Compressed Nerve
Nikki Miller View this post on Instagram A post shared by Movement Missing Links (@movement.missing.links)
Guest Post #7 – Translating Point of Contact
Nicole Uno Fist to False-Grip | Ground to Rings As body angles change to adjust exercises, (whether to make them easier or more difficult), it can also cause thinking to shift away from concept-based objectives and toward specific task-based objectives. Typically, task-based objectives beg to be completed rather than understood. On one end […]
Threatening & Being Threatened
Dare Sohei grief (and rage) are just the very first parts of death practice. it strikes me as telling that resistances towards acceptance of these states and moving through them to whats beyond are so prevalent. its like watching someone pick at scabs. this culture, these behavorial stories are so fucking boring and remedial, […]
Social Somatics
Jim Freda
Safety & Behavior
Christine Ruffolo The following is part one of my course notes and findings from Stress, Movement, and Pain. Linked through the perception of threat and cause to protect, Seth Oberst generously delivered on the hows, whats, and whys between sensation (or lack thereof) and chronic stress. Ultimately, he offered up a framework to identify and […]