by admin | Oct 22, 2019 | alignment, alignment training, Anatomy, Anatomy in motion, Bodywork, bones, Breathing, core, deep core, diaphragm, Efficiency, embodiment, foundation, functional movement, Functional Patterns, Gait, Human Movement, Human Optimization, Intrinsic stability, Joint control, Joint health, Kinesthetic, Muscle Association, Muscle balance, Personal Training, Physical medicine, Physical therapy, psychosomatic, Spatial Medicine, Spiral, stamina, structural integration, Tensegrity, tissue health, Train Rugged, TVA
What is Structural Integration? Structural Integration (SI) is a therapeutic process that uses various techniques and modalities of manual therapies to help bring you into an improved, more efficient structural and functional balance. SI aims to optimize the body you...
by admin | Oct 11, 2019 | bones, Breathing, Breathing exercises, Center, Conditioning, deep core, Finding center, fitness, Food, Food as fuel, functionality, Gait, gait work, Intention, Intentional, Intrinsic stability, Joint control, low back pain, Mental Health, Mobility, Physiology, Posture, Power, SMFR, Spatial Medicine, Stability, strength, structural integration, sustainability, sustainable
The Ramifications of Improper Body Use Are Big Now more than ever before, people are suffering from degenerative diseases. There is no coincidence that this has happened since we begun using our bodies less. What is interesting is that connective tissues; tendons,...
by admin | Mar 8, 2018 | alignment training, deep core, diaphragm, posterior chain, Postural correction, Restorative, Rugged, Scapula, TVA
This one is a burner. Difficult to do alone, but incredibly effective for assisting in postural tensioning between the shoulders and the hips. Seriously, I have clients do this and they sweat, they shake, basically it is way harder than it looks. WHY DO IT: Because...
by admin | Feb 20, 2018 | alignment training, Anatomy, Anatomy Trains, anterior chain, balance, core, deep core, diaphragm, Postural correction, Posture, Train Rugged, training, Training with purpose, TVA
Understanding how to isometrically brace the spine serves us a lot of good. If the core muscles aroud the spine can understand how to ‘brace’ then we can progress more confidently into the next stages of training- that is, integrating the extremities of...
by admin | Feb 9, 2018 | alignment training, Anatomy, Anatomy Trains, balance, Biomechanics, Breathing, deep core, diaphragm, fitness, flexibility, functional movement, Functional Patterns, functionality, Human Movement, Human Optimization, Human Performance, Human potential, improve performance
The next “functional” must is to train yourself in an integrated manner. Meaning, get out of the sagittal plane, and work some frontal or horizontal plane exercises, move in every direction available to you. Mix isometrics in with motor-control movements,...
by admin | Sep 19, 2017 | alignment training, Anatomy, Athletic performance, Conditioning, deep core, Efficiency, Human Movement, Human Optimization, Human Performance, Human potential, Mobility, movement, muscle function, Nature, Nervous System
s Want to see and experience truth? Observe nature. Go out in nature and be in it, listen to it, feel it. Reconnect with what it means to be human. Nature was here way before we were. We were born out of it and into it, through gestation to birth. Sadly, modern day...
