How's your movement diet been this year?

Yes, you've read this right - MOVEMENT DIET.

What your doctor might've not told you is that your body relies on good, nutritious movement just as much as it does on nutrient-dense foods. Unfortunately for most of, our nutrition diet is equivalent to eating Big Mac's all day, every day.

Let me explain.

Bad posture wrecks a complete havoc on the body.

Just this past week in class we talked about pelvis to ribcage alignment, and how incorrect relationship between these two can lead to unhealthy breathing patterns,  heart problems, heartburn and acid reflux, constipation, and pelvic floor dysfunction. Aches and pains are easier to track to posture, but poor posture creates a host of total body dysfunction, including the symptoms described above.  I'll share more on that next week.

Bad posture leads to body-wide compensation patterns.

Sadly you cannot exercise your way out of this one. In fact, every time you exercise, you ingrain the very same bad breathing and  bad movement patterns, adding a little bit more brokenness to your body, and turning your tissues into the ticking time bombs.

Long-term, poor posture and body-wide compensations pave the way - more like the 10-line highway! -  to inefficient (and stress inducing) breathing patterns, muscle bracing, trigger points, and unhealthy changes in the nervous system that eventually lead to chronic pain.

And since I started with food and diet, let me finish by saying this: every cell in the body needs nutrition and waste removal. Cellular nutrition becomes compromised when tension is your mode of operation - nutrients simply cannot reach the cells, and by the same token, wastes accumulate instead of being expeditiously carried out. This internal dam effect is part of a trigger point formation process, and in some cases a contributing factor to cancerous cell mutation.

In class, we use a variety of approaches:

~we pacify jazzed up and misfiring nervous system ( this usually brings on better sleep);

~we dissolve the trigger points ( that's where yoga therapy balls become our best-est friends);

~we develop body awareness to identify blind spots - body areas where we have no awareness and usually no movement;

~we talk, demo and practice alignment until it becomes natural enough to take off the mat and into the world.

Can you benefit from a SATORI approach? Join us on the mat for your weekly doze of nutritious movement.

Register below, or learn more about classes here. And, of course, drop me a line if you have any questions.