by admin | Mar 16, 2020 | Bodywork, fitness, massage, Muscle balance, muscle function
REDUCE CHRONIC PAIN THROUGH MASSAGE & FITNESS Massage and fitness are two ways to combat one of the fastest growing epidemics in the Western World, chronic pain. Chronic pain is a slow cooking plague that is affecting 1 in every 2 Americans. It effects quality of...
by admin | Oct 19, 2019 | alignment, alignment training, Anatomy, Anatomy in motion, Anatomy Trains, Efficiency, elasticity, embodiment, Finding center, fitness, flexibility, foundation, functional movement, Functional Patterns, functionality, gait work, Hip flexors, hip knee ankle, Human Optimization, Human Performance, improve performance, Improved Cognition, Intention, Intrinsic stability, Joint control, Kinesthetic, Muscle Association, Muscle balance, Nature, Nervous System, Optimization, Personal Training, Physical medicine, Postural correction, Posture, Practice, Spatial Medicine, structural integration, sustainability, sustainable, swimming, Tensegrity, tissue health
Tensegrity & the Body Tensegrity is an elision of ‘tension + integrity’. Buckminster Fuller, building on the highly original sculptures of Kenneth Snelson, coined the term, to indicate that the integrity of the structure derived from the balance of tension...
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 | Oct 30, 2018 | alignment training, Anatomy in motion, Anatomy Trains, Athletic performance, Back to center, Biomechanics, bipeds, Blog, Bodywork, Efficiency, elasticity, exercise, Fascia, fitness, foundation, functional movement, Functional Patterns, functionality, Gait, health, Health Coach, Healthness, Human Movement, Human Optimization, Joint control, Joints, Optimization, Personal Training, Physical medicine, Physical therapy, Physiology, Posture, Psychology, sustainability, Train Rugged
Tunnel Vision I work in a field called spatial medicine, also known as physical medicine. Your physical therapist, chiropractor, massage therapist, and CrossFit or yoga instructor does the same thing. Essentially we work with people to educate them on their bodies and...
by admin | Feb 28, 2018 | Breathing, diaphragm, Efficiency, elasticity, fitness, Physical medicine, Restorative, Spatial Medicine, sustainability, Tensegrity, tissue health, Train Rugged
Apposition defined: the positioning of things or the condition of being side by side or close together. The zone of apposition refers to the relationship of the diaphragm to the pelvic floor. So essentially, the ribcage to the pelvis (though there are other...
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,...