The body Moves!  Such a vast and intricate system of systems within ourselves; The sweet dance of the kidneys, the magical engineering of our vascular highway, the tidal wave that is PERISTALSIS!  This machine is no machine at all!!  We are a constant balancing act of movement and fluids and delicious juicy goodness!!  Heavy sigh!  And to my point, we have to move our bodies!  And to maintain the integrity of this glorious complexity that is the Human, we have to find diverse ways to move ourselves through space and with gravity!

As we hang upside down, for instance, our liver can lift and allow new blood and oxygen to flow through that space and a tiny fascial pull in the intestines might release.  Or if we walk backwards up a hill, our right and left brain then sends a new signal to the quads and glutes which expands the proprioceptors in those muscles telling them of the wide variety of their capabilities!  Truly, there is such a wide variety in our human body!  When we strengthen our whole self then we just become so much more powerful in what we do!

Instead of running with knee pain, hip pain, mental exhaustion, run with your whole self.  Then you can access your core and relax your neck.  You can drop into your systems;  feel the neural connections, recognize blood flow restrictions and really listen and hear what your body is saying.  Because the diverse movement expands your mobility, strength and brain power, you can really begin to listen to your body.

Life and its’ injuries and stress and trauma and drama is processed and stored in our bodies.  We are amazing human beings, our bodies know that our minds cannot process life’s struggles past a certain point, we then store this kind of information in our bones and soft tissues.  It sits and waits to come out so that we can properly let it go.  Allow yourself to let these stressors go.  Hold a stretch a little longer or add some jumps to your run or roll around with your kids or animals in the mud!  These are the ways we release our hidden stressors so that the treasure of our true whole self can come free!  Then gravity is our friend and the planet is peaceful!

video and choreography cred: Aaron Hannon, a movement expert!  These vids are from his Naturaletics classes.  All the moves!