Made to move
You live in a physical body - is it your duty to make it perform at its peak? Or simply to craft what you’ve been gifted at birth? Or will it just look after itself? Or a bit of everything.
Just as you would feed your body a nutrient dense, wholesome and healthy diet, fitbynature practices that we should also do the same when it comes to movement: a movement practice that combines a variety of wholesome ingredients that come together to develop a powerhouse of skills, optimise performance and focus on longevity for every BODY. We build strength alongside flexibility, we prepare our bodies to jump, twist, crawl, hang, balance, push, pull and bend in as many ways as possible.
We prepare in movement so we can be ready for life.
I sail a lot with my father-in-law, a seasoned and rather pedantic sailor. So much so he MUST avoid using the engine, ever, especially for leaving and returning to the mooring. After releasing the mooring buoy, there’s a moment when the sails are flapping embarrassing this way and that and then all of a sudden, when the wind decides, the boat direction is just so, the mainsail is pulled taught already but the jib catches as well and then voila like magic we’re away. No engine needed, as though everything was self organising.
This feels so like human movement. We often plough thru the reps and sets, determined to see a program thru from start to finish, beholden in the knowledge that we’re succeeding as we’re ‘seeing it thru’ even if it kills us! What if instead we facilitate rather than force? What if our bodies, like the lining up of grandpa’s boat in the wind, we are capable of self organising?
A structure that is elastic, resilient, yet soft especially in moments when we encounter irregularity and unpredictable.
A structure that is powerful, but not rigidly strong.
A structure that is interconnected in smartly adaptable ways, so when the shake comes it does not react as one solid piece that would crack or collapse.
A structure whose connections are open and ready to transport information to entire structure helping to rearrange its position according to actual needs to sustain dynamic balance.
We do this by designing ‘complex movement situations' where you are exposed to a variety of learning methods that can help you to learn more efficiently and with longer lasting effects, improving your cognitive and behavioral flexibility and tolerance to the unknown. We accept our own body’s feedback, to understand how intelligent, adaptive and creative we are in the moments that are not entirely in your control.
This is a movement practice: communication, physical dexterity and creative thinking and moving to be capable of solving real life problems to thrive in life.
