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24.01.2022 Much needed disconnect from technology and reset at Simon Thakurs Natural Movement and Re-Wilding Spring Retreat. Grateful for the chance to meet, learn from and "fight" Rafe Kelley The gym has its value, but doesn't always transfer over to the real world so well. The natural environment is hard to replicate, and facilitates a variety of movement nutrition. There are rarely any straight lines and the ground isn't always flat and even. It requires much more resiliency, adaptab...ility and all round capabilities. Your body hates straight lines. It's stuck in rigid chairs all day, it doesn't want more perfectly aligned seated rows or ab crunches. Explore different angles and you will feel the difference! Check out Simon at www.ancestralmovement.com he is a huge influence on my practice and is doing some amazing things! Check out Rafe at www.evolvemoveplay.com for some awesome outdoor natural environment parkour and roughhousing - much needed missing component from physical education, especially in this 'cotton wool' era.

23.01.2022 "Make the impossible possible, the hard easy, and the easy elegant" - Moshé Feldenkrais https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reotYRnvpyI

12.01.2022 Functional Long Term Flexibility = Strength and Control At End of Range If you have tight hips, rounded spine and shoulders but no amount of stretching seems to help give this a go. Reverse those sitting adaptations if you're stuck in a chair all day. This is one of my favourite 'stretches'. Initially might feel like a torture device but you'll quickly loosen up the whole anterior fascial sling. You'll come out flying.... Great tool for bridge work and hero pose, and smoothing out the breathe - getting comfortable in the uncomfortable. Try 2-3 sets of about 20-40 seconds or 3-5 contract-relax cycles at moderate intensity. I am using 5kg in the video but have used 10kg to great effect. https://youtu.be/t1spp7BJddw

11.01.2022 Mobility is King - Sunday night pancakes Haven't done these specifically for over a month, but this is the furthest I've ever got and it felt reasonably comfortable. I've still got a long way to go, but this used to seem impossible for me. You're never too old, injured or [insert excuse] to be mobile, flexible and unrestricted in movement. ... The body adapts. What are you asking your body to adapt to?

10.01.2022 THE MAP IS NOT THE TERRITORY - THE ILLUSION OF DISEASE, DIAGNOSIS AND HEALTH I love music and movement. I've come across this gem of a book on the topic of music, but the parallels to health and movement are both obvious and profound. The author is trying to blend eastern and western theory of harmony into a unified whole, by redefining the modern as an evolutionary transformation of the ancient. They are generally believed to be related but distinct and opposed systems. ... But akin to health, we need a revival of ancient values. To bring it into modern context allied with the power of modern science. What is the essence behind 'health and fitness' that we are trying to cultivate? Labels of health and disease are just that - labels. "Knowing the name of a disease tells us nothing about its true cause; nor does it lead us to the right treatment." - Dr Mark Hyman A few key ideas from the start of the book to think about. 1. Health education - Intellectual knowledge vs embodied practice. "The chasm between music theory and music practice is immense. The way we think music is so greatly removed from the psychological reasons we do music that theory is often more a hindrance than a help". 2. Quantified data/Measures of health is not health itself. "Civilisation itself is nothing if not a panorama of sophisticated illusions: Zoos are wilderness, chemicals are food, reality is virtual, and twelve-tone equal temperament is tonal harmony" or...exercise and fitness is movement and physical wellbeing; medical treatment is health promoting. 3. "The universal acceptance of [modern medicine/fitness] in the West has resulted in a splendid body of [disease management/athletic performance], but the accumulated result of centuries of impure, approximate [self care/movement] has given our [bodies] a kind of jet lag, a condition of aesthetic depletion. We are so removed from the direct experience of the seed resonances of [ourselves] that generated [wellbeing] in the first place". Interestingly enough, Hippocrates - widely considered to be the father of modern medicine - had this to say roughly 2400 years ago, and we are now finally (re-)realising it: "The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it. Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food" - Hippocrates. "The good news is that as the century turns there is an awakening to what we have lost, and to our acculturated denial of loss". - W.A. Mathieu