Flexible Relief
August: Ease in the Lumbar–not your Usual PT
One workshop with audio recording and one clinic per week.
Tuesdays at 11 eastern time starting June 9th
These lessons offer flexibility, balance, efficient movement and pleasure, all rolled into one. They are for active people who are starting to feel their bodies changing - maybe shoulders are tighter after desk work, the back protests after weekend projects, or you're just not moving with the same ease you once did. Carie's underlying principle is to awaken your own inner teacher. Students are deeply satisfied by the transformations that they themselves bring about.
the August Series
Ease in the Lumbar–not your Usual PT
If your lumbar is overworked, two things come to mind: the flexibility in your ribs and the spaciousness of your hip joint. If your ribs can move your thoracic spine can move, and that’s where you want to get a lot of rotation–spare your lumbar. Think of your chest as an accordion, not a box. Now about the hips…. when you run your finger down your torso in a straight line to the front top of your thigh, and you cross the line from torso-ness to thigh-ness, does it feel soft and spacious and ready and available? Or tight? What Feldenkraisers call ‘opening the front of the hip’ would help your lumbar a lot.
The reference to PT? They are getting way better about this, but Physical Therapists might incline towards making you stronger so you can yank yourself around to the better posture. (So now you have two bad habits.) Our focus is on what needs to let go. How could you reorganize yourself so that you spontaneously use your hip joint in your best combination to support your lumbar? Come and find out!