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Elsa Gindler & Moshe Feldenkrais

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Christian Rabhansl Elsa Gindler and Moshé Feldenkrais Development can be understood as a path towards personal maturity, but also as the perfection of a single skill. Harmony, as the result of a continuous process of uniting body and mind, was of great importance to Elsa Gindler in order to lead a balanced life in an […]

Why Chains

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Adarian Barr   In a nutshell, it’s SENSORY…     Chains are used to create internal compression — you are connected AKA standing upon your source of resistance. Chains do not deform, so the change of space, pressure, and position occurs within the body. Using this tool in this context, I am forcing my mobile-down-or […]

Type A Jaw Relaxation

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Jenn Pilotti   I went to a new dentist last week. I’m not in the habit of switching dentists, but we moved, and our old dentist was now located three hours (and a mountain range) away. So, there I was, in a tiny room, with a brand-new person examining my teeth. “Do you have any […]

Hypermobiles & Sitting “Upright”

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Catherine Cowey   SITTING UPRIGHT, NOT AS EASY AS IT LOOKS Many clients complain that they have always been told to, “Sit up straight!!”, and believe it must be weakness or laziness that they don’t succeed in doing so. Well for hypermobiles this is easier said than done due to that lax connective tissue. In […]

Trusting Tension

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Craig Mallett       View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Craig Mallett (@craigmallettau)   Craig can be found at www.craigmallett.com and contacted direct at contact@craigmallett.com He is currently/indefinitely available for the following services: Online Training, Online Courses, Healing, Consultation     [Feature Photo by Demi Kwant on Unsplash.]      

The 3-Phase Repatterning Stretching Cycle

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Dave Wardman   The last essay served as an introduction to the art of repatterning stretching:  its lore, heuristics, principles, aphorisms, and more.  It was largely theorum.  This second essay in a series of ‘class essays’ [essays designed to aid people dive into the repatterning stretching more fluidly] is more of the ‘applied theorum’ flavour. […]

Start with Universe – Structure (Part 4)

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Jordan Terry   Part 1 of this series. Part 2 of this series. Part 3 of this series.   Humans have a fluidity to them that buildings (even tensegrity building structures) rarely have. “When energy becomes manifest, it immediately sets up a polarized dynamic, creating the fundamental form of energetic flow called the Torus. Everything, […]

Start with Universe – Structure (Part 1)

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Jordan Terry   “Start With Universe” – Buckminster Fuller “One of Bucky’s primary tenets is, `Start with Universe.’ The initial relevant context is the whole Universe, and from there you peel away irrelevancies until you find the scale and relationships that are most relevant to the inquiry at hand. As a comprehensivist, he was naturally […]

Tension

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Craig Mallett   My studies in self development have been long and varied, spanning (so far) over 16 years and including forays into traditional Chinese martial arts, gymnastic strength training, flexibility and mobility of many kinds, natural movement, parkour, dance, movement culture, and the more popularized forms of strength and conditioning training. In the last […]

Neurological Tension & Expanding Range

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Brian Fox     View this post on Instagram   On our journey to increase physical capacities, my client and I aimed our treatment plan on: . ▶️Gaining control of specific joints and tissues to decrease neurological splinting in the lumbar spine by doing a blocked flexion and extension drill (not pictured) in very low […]