Growing Your Repertoire As You Age
In Body Wisdom, we say that the classes are ‘lessons,’ not exercises, and we want you to move gently and slowly because that is often the best way to learn. But the truth is, we aren’t teaching you so much as helping you access your own inner teacher. This is all the more important as you start to feel your age. Age can so often be a matter of having slowly let options go–through accidents and illnesses, through cultural pressures and by way of experience in how you sit or who you know.
You tripped on a curb, you guarded yourself while you healed, and then you forgot to let the guarding go, until now you don’t move your ankle as much as you used to. As much as you could. Maybe you even forgot how your ankle once moved.
In Body Wisdom, you’ll remember. Your body talks; you listen. And in this lesson that you teach yourself, many of your options can be restored.
One work shop with audio and one clinic
1. Balance in Motion: Dynamic Stability
This Series is about improving your relationship. No, not human-to-human relationships: human to gravity relationships. What people find through these classes is not only that they stumble less, but they also recover more--and it feels good. It feels safer, but it also feels satisfying, even powerful. I support you in this by guiding you through patient, gentle movements. I help you become more aware of how you use your weight and of how you orient yourself with respect to 'what's up' and 'what's down'--our dear wrinkly friend gravity. By 'awareness' I don't mean an intellectual, mathematical understanding, but rather an internalized knowing and confidence that will be there for you when you need it.
2. From the Ground Up: Reclaiming Your Feet and Ankles
Your feet are your interface with the ground - mobile, responsive, and intelligent. But most people have gradually limited their foot and ankle movement through protective patterns. Maybe you guarded after an injury, maybe your shoes constrained natural movement, or maybe you just stopped asking your feet to do interesting things. This series helps you rediscover the mobility and responsiveness your feet and ankles are beautifully designed to give you. Through patient exploration of toe movements, ankle articulation, and weight distribution, you'll restore options you may have forgotten you had. The changes ripple upward - when your feet work better, everything above them can organize better.