Sit to Death
Sit to Death

$197.00 2 Sections 7 Lessons

Course Description

In this course, you will learn how to sit more dynamically to improve your health and life span and reduce the negative impact of sitting for long periods of time.  This course includes guided movement lessons and curated information to help you create more healthful sitting habits. 

This course is designed for people who sit for long periods of time at work, desire to be active but don't have time every day to workout.  The movement lessons will support you to embed activity breaks that make a difference to alleviate headaches, stiff necks, painful low backs and rigid hips from sitting for hours at a time. 

Cheryl is a certified Feldenkrais practitioner, Integral Master Coach (tm) and Being in Movement practitioner.  Cheryl has followed her curiosity to become a somatic coach over the past 12 years exploring ways to embrace the complexity of being human in an embodied form.  

To learn more about Cheryl: https://www.peaceandpower.ca/categories/about-cheryl

Course Content

Section One: Sitting is the New Smoking - the Hazards of Unconscious Sitting and Sedentary Habits

In this section, you will learn about what happens when we sit too long and why good posture is so difficult to keep. You will also experience two movement lessons to bring awareness to your sitting.
Lesson 1: What Happens When We Sit Unconsciously Too Long
Lesson 2: Why is good posture so difficult to keep? Why do we slouch?

Section 2: Introducing Dynamic Sitting

In this section, you will be introduced to dynamic sitting as a way to reduce the harm from unconscious sitting and sedentary habits. You will also learn practical and easy movement strategies to create a more dynamic sitting habits.
Lesson 3: Sitting is Not Doing Nothing
Lesson 4: Dynamic Sitting with the Pelvis
Lesson 5 Activating Your Core for Dynamic Sitting - 4 Points
Lesson 6 Dynamic Sitting - Lifting Arms with the Pelvis
Lesson 7: Dynamic Sitting - Moving from Sitting to Standing