9/10 people are breathing in micro tensions I don’t have actual stats but I believe borrowing movement to breathe is more common than breathing how we are designed to [ai says 9/10 people aren’t breathing ideally 🙃] when it comes to borrowing for breath there are some specific areas of the body that we tend to use. that’s the chest neck shoulders belly upper ribs the more we rely on these muscles to help us breath, the more micro tensions we’re putting into our system. that’s because we’re...
20 days ago • 1 min read
breath, our event core.dinator our breathing is more than getting air in to live - its a pressure management system every activity we do and every move we make we are putting force on the body in some way. even when we are sitting still, the body is having to adjust for the pressures of gravity in some way. our muscles, bones and fascia are built to take the force but the breath is the one determining which muscles and bones take the load. imagine the breath being an event coordinator you...
27 days ago • 1 min read
treat your breath like your budget having your wallet to buy something isn’t the same as having money in your wallet. breathing works the same way. simply being alive + breathing doesn’t automatically mean your breathing your best breath. remember, our brains love to be efficient so it will borrow movement where ever it needs to in order to get some air in and move on to the next thing. although breathing is so much more than getting air in to stay alive. breathing how we were designed is...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
the power of the breath we’ve chatted before about the problem isn’t pain, it’s how we think about pain. when we feel pain - the body is letting us know something needs our attention or needs adjusting. sometimes we might need to make a fairly big adjustment - like not walking on a twisted ankle for a few days. but more often than not our response to pain is at its best when we make small and sustainable adjustments, aka: subtle shifts. I’m here to share that one of the simplest, yet most...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
the problem with prioritizing pain the problem with prioritizing pain is that it prevents us from seeing the whole picture. it’s the old “can’t see the forest for the trees” saying in action. we get so zoomed in on erasing the pain we can’t zoom out to see all the possible options for feeling more at home in our body. for example, we prioritize getting rid of shoulder pain and so we: do shoulder stretches do shoulder workouts quit doing activities that use a lot of shoulder movements get...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
the problem isn't pain... how we’ve been trained to think about pain is mostly wrong and I’m here to share another perspective. so many people [myself included sometimes] are focused on getting rid of their pain. as if the pain is only there to cause a problem and it needs to be erased. but by erasing the pain we’re removing a pivotal tool and essential communication role embedded in our fascial system. because pain is one way of our bodies can tell us about ourselves. pain is language, it is...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
your psoas + your fascia one of the biggest take-aways I hope you get from reading the things I share is that everything is connected thru the fascial system. we are not separate parts assembled together like a car. rather all of our parts are grown out of one seed like a plant. we grow within the the fascial system and the fascia is continually adjusting, organizing, supporting and connecting all of our parts. so when we’re in pain or feeling strong or unbalanced or just going through the...
2 months ago • 1 min read
how to stop borrowing movement guess what? since borrowing movement is a habit we’ve gotten ourselves into, that means it’s also a habit we can get ourselves out of. but how? with subtle shifts. a subtle shift is the tiny most adjustment you can possible make to work towards moving how you were designed to. so tiny it would be almost un-noticeable to an observer. subtle shifts are a long game. they thrive on simplicity and consistency. think sustainability over speed. creating those subtle...
2 months ago • 1 min read
your brain loves to borrow movement borrowing movement isn’t ideal for our physical body but our brain loves to do it. why does the brain love to borrow? because our brain is mostly focused on two things. 1. ‘what we’re trying to accomplish’ and 2. the most efficient way to do it. but efficient isn’t the same as effective. this is where borrowing comes in. the brain will utilize whatever movement requires the least amount of time, energy, effort from us. it just wants the job done + to move...
3 months ago • 1 min read