Our Wellness through Movement philosophy is focused on how movement can be a transformational path to: |
Most of my clients show up with a distorted sense of themselves. They tell me about the parts that need to be fixed.
As if each part of their body has a pink sticky note on it, a label for what needs to be fixed.
When you become curious about your movement, you open a hidden door to your next possible move.
Learning to notice your body with kind attention, you open up unexpressed possibilities in how you move.
To shift your painful, disappointing movement and open up your whole person intelligence you need to:
I call this learning to move wisely, as a whole person - rather than moving to compensate for and protect the parts that need to be fixed.
It’s not your fault.
We learn to hold a machine-orientation to our body. We mostly ignore it until it stops working the way we want.
Then we see a helpful health expert.
We learn to view our body as a collection of problem parts rather than knowing our body as a resource and source of essential information. When helpful experts say, “There is nothing more that can be done.” We believe that as the whole truth, not allowing that there is a limit to their perspective. We believe them, not understanding that what they are really saying is,
“There is nothing more I can do for you.”
We try to squeeze our experience of our bodies into the categories that our helpful health experts use. When we act to get "fixed", we do not invest in a process of learning from our experience. We focus on finding the right fit so we can be fixed.
When I work with a client I take them through this process:
My approach is for you if you are:
My approach is not for you if you are:
Cheryl talks about the four pillars of our philosophy in this video: