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 | Nov 29, 2018 | alignment training, Anatomy, Anatomy in motion, Anatomy Trains, Biomechanics, Body Care, Bodywork, bones, core, Efficiency, Fascia, functional movement, Functional Patterns, functionality, healthy joints, Human Movement, Joint health, Joints, Mental Health, Motion, Nature, Physical medicine, Physiology, Psychology, Restorative, Rotation, Rugged, Spatial Medicine, structural integration, tissue health, Train Rugged, TVA
I studied with an osteopath who once told me, “listen to your bones…they’ll be here long after you’re gone.” There’s great wisdom in that offering. Our bones are, contradictory to popular belief, soft tissues that make up our skeleton. Inside of them we have bone...
by admin | Jun 19, 2018 | alignment training, Anatomy in motion, Anatomy Trains, Back to center, balance, Biomechanics, Body Care, Breathing, Center, Conditioning, core, diaphragm, Efficiency, elasticity, endurance, Finding center, Nervous System, Optimization, Physiology, Posture, running, Spatial Medicine, Stability, structural integration, sustainability, training, Training with purpose, TVA, yoga
MAKING YOUR HEAD SPIN So the last post seemed anything but simple. I talked about your heart rate, arteries, and all the moving systems that are involved on a daily basis. My hope is that by the end of this post you have somewhere solid to start that you can then...
by admin | Apr 26, 2018 | alignment training, Anatomy in motion, Anatomy Trains, Athletic performance, Biomechanics, functional movement, Functional Patterns, functionality, Gait, Mental Health, Mobility, Motion, movement, Optimization, Personal Training, Physical medicine, sustainability, Tensegrity, tissue health, Train Rugged, training, Training with purpose, TVA, yoga
GOING TILL THE WHEELS FALL OFF: NOT SUSTAINABLE Deceleration is defined as the reduced speed or rate of something, or the act of slowing down. Slowing down, aka decelerating, changed me. And I intend to tell you how. What do I mean by ‘changed me’? Well...
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...
