🤸♂️Passive Stretching vs Dynamic Movement - To stretch or not to stretch? Or, what actually IS stretching?
🤸♀️I did a Wholeness in Motion class with Babette Lightner this morning where the focus was on stretching vs dynamic movement. Despite my long history of dance, movement, yoga, running, and the Alexander Technique, I’ve always felt myself to be inflexible. I have sustained many mild injuries by trying and forcing and contorting myself into shapes that my body wasn’t warmed up to be in, or simply isn’t built to accommodate. Usually because I was trying to achieve a form, rather than following my inner knowing.
🤸♀️Babette has helped me to understand that dynamic movement (not passive stretching) is what will support my system - INCLUDING MY VOICE - to be flexible FOR THE TASKS OF DAILY LIFE. (Shouty emphasis mine.)
🤸♀️ Today I watched a fascinating and enlightening (for me) video podcast about stretching. Here are the details pasted from the TVO Podcasts episode:
“Doug Richards from the Physical Education & Health department at University of Toronto St. George on Stretching: The Truth. Richards discusses the science and the fiction of the benefits of stretching prior to exercise.”
🤸♀️The information Doug Richards provides is a combination of detailed anatomical offerings and accessible metaphors and functional illustrations. Highly recommend for anyone who uses their body on the daily (which is, you know, all of us). Here’s the link:
🤸♀️And here is where you can learn more about Babette’s work: www.wim.life
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🌱 The next weekly pay-what-you-can #CommunitySession is Thursday, April 30th - 2:00pm EDT - Restorative Floor Work - PWYC (suggested $10). No Alexander Technique or movement experience necessary.
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