Long post alert 🚨 Movement is a language that connects us all. This is some of the inspiration behind the reason @rachpt and I started the #MOVE2GETHER challenge. Through movement we connect with others and we begin a dialogue. The dialogue started with my client a few months ago. She wanted to get back to training at the Circus school after an injury from handstand training. After interviewing a few coaches, she contacted me and said you’re my guy. Confident that I could help her overcome a few discouraging pain barriers, I began to teach her based on my own experiences with tissue damage and mental uncertainty. She’s a trapeze artist who spent a lot of time hanging and not a lot of time on the ground. Hence the injury while increasing ground volume without the necessary prerequisites. Despite her wide range of flexibility, she learned to access mobility. Despite the natural athleticism that allowed her to move and do awesome things on the rings and trapeze, these were all built on compensations. She could sit in the splits all day, but when I ask her to access strength in that range it wasn’t there. We broke down the things she wanted access to and rebuilt them on sound principles. She’s by no means a finished product, but what she’s doing now versus the first time i introduced her to the ground is awesome. Her confidence is back and she just told me that she thinks she’s ready to return to the thing she loves and because of this, we’ll no longer be working together. But it makes me happy to know that she now understands that her sport (the thing she loves to do) requires training and vigilance. The activity is mainly skills based. What’s also cool is that she’s learned something new about herself crawling around on the ground. It’s the same things I learned from getting closer to the ground. The ground is where we began and in order to last, the ground is where we must spend time. I’m 40 and she’s 51 and our conversation ended with her saying that she loves it when her 20 year old sons try to compete with her and it’s sad to see people her age giving in to things because of a number... Every day on this earth is a day you can improve at something. #Animalflow #fitspo #fitwomen #naturalmovement #yoga #yogawomen #fitness #fitfam (at San Francisco, California)
