Strength, Grace & Mobility
As the saying goes, “Aging is not for the faint of heart.” While that may be true, there are many ways we can slow down the process. In fact, it is our destiny as humans to age with grace, strength and vitality.
Discontent with our changing bodies is a rich source of suffering. The feeling is intensified as we age due to marketing and the cultural obsession with youthfulness. This leads many people to fight aging by any means necessary, often going to extraordinary lengths to hide…
As we age, we think we need to slow down. Or, worse, we see it as the prize. That thought couldn’t be further from the truth. If you don’t move through your range of motion, you will lose it.
The myotatic reflex keeps muscles from snapping. When we reach the end of the stretch, we feel a slight bounce back. That’s the myotatic reflex signaling. To keep from triggering it, we move slowly, creeping in under the radar.
Happiness. It’s our constitutional right to pursue it, but what exactly is it? Most people associate it with a mildly continuous feeling of joy, but it’s closer to a state of contentment in which one is okay with life as it is. It’s less a…
The ability to repair – be it your body or relationship – is a life skill. We’re not taught this. We’re a fast-paced culture that doesn’t encourage slowing down, but that’s exactly what healing demands.
A balance body is a powerful one, full of energy, ease and grace. It is something anyone, at any age, can achieve with a dedicated exercise program. To rebalance the body, we need to bring it back into alignment by moving the whole musculoskeletal system.
The simplest and most effective way to recruit all the bones is by doing large, full-body movements using the weight of your body as the load on the bones.
We sculpt our body every day of our lives in the way that we hold them. In other words, you get what you train for!
Every cell requires a source of energy to power its life. This energy “power plant” is called mitochondria. Most cells have only a few, whereas the muscles house 95% of the body’s mitochondria.
The body was designed to move on a daily basis, but we live in such a way that we can literally never leave our desk and have anything we want delivered to our front door. The only thing we can’t buy online is movement. This one is on us.