Surviving Your Sport: Keeping Yourself Together When You Play Hard If you’re reading this, you’re already aware that moving your body is one of the most important things
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Notes from a Recovering Effort Queen
You know the story. It’s Sunday morning. The alarm goes off. It’s been a long week and you’re exhausted. You’re snuggled into bed, all warm and cosy under the
Top 10 Ways Pilates & Movement Training Improve Athletic Performance
Movement training is often separate from technical training you do for your sport or activity, and sometimes different from what we expect our “fitness” activities to feel like.
Is Your Workout Getting Too Comfortable?
Our bodies are a testament to adaptability. Our structures seem solid, but in reality, they are so much more plastic and changeable that we imagine. Did you know
Does Your Moving Body Have a Shelf-Life? Movement Training in a Fitness-Oriented World
Movement training involves working on the way in which any given movement is performed, with a view to achieving more fluidity, better function, reducing pain or improving performance.
Integrating New Movement Patterns into High Level Activities
Integrating New Movement Patterns Into High Level Activities “You’re kidding me. That’s really ALL I have to do?” When I’m working with athletes and dancers to re-program dysfunctional
Movement Practice, or Exercise… or BOTH?!
Movement Practice, or Exercise... or BOTH? "I go to the gym, I get all the movement practice I need." I heard these words, and others like them, when
What I Learned from Retired Astronaut, Commander Chris Hadfield
There. It’s out. I’ve said it out loud. I have a big old crush on retired Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield. And my husband is okay with it. Of
Your Body’s Story: The Anatomy of a Movement Pattern
Your Body’s Story: The Anatomy of a Movement Pattern Movement patterns are a huge part of the work that I do every day. What patterns are working well?
Your Movement: It’s Not WHAT You Do, It’s HOW You Do It
The human body is a phenomenally adaptable organism. We’re shape-shifters! I am consistently awed by the degree to which it’s possible for us to change what seems like