Stretching and Anatomy Workshops in Newark, Midlands, UK

Eleven days to go until the first Midlands based workshop. For the first time I am running 3D Stretching and 3D Anatomy workshops together over  a weekend.

Get fully immersed in Gary Ward's motion based muscle and joint system theories and have the notion of a global approach to working with the body drummed in to you for good! Not by my own forceful hand but by the very fact that we have no choice but to recognise the value of whole body function once we begin to understand the Anatomy in Motion.

3D Stretching elaborates on muscle function; what innervates the muscle (not what you think) and the three dimensionality of all muscles and muscle groups. Oddly, if you stretch one set of muscles fully in 3D, we stretch a variety of other muscles in 3D too.

Working in this way, we can easily tap into 3 important factors about stretching:

A.      Stretching requires tension in the body as a whole to relate to function

B.      Stretches become functional when the foot can appreciate it's role in motion relative to that muscle

C.      Stretches are never static inmotion... they are more like binary code (on/off; on/off)

Ordinarily static stretches:

-           allow the user to soften or switch off other areas in the body: eliminating tension from the chain.

-          omit the appropriate motion of the foot in the gait cycle where a muscle undergoes a 3D stretch in motion. Think of a hamstring stretch on your back - do you consider what position the foot is in when the hamstring is stretching in gait or do you let it flop aimlessly around?

-          utilise neither a concentric or eccentric contraction which is all the contractile properties a brain can appreciate in motion - so the stretch, the tension and the whole body link are lost in the process of a static stretch and the brain is denied the all important information to accept new length in a muscle.

All this focus on stretching and we are forgetting something crucial, crucial, crucial... Joint motion, skeletal manipulation and whole body mobilisers generate both concentric and eccentric movement in the soft tissue of the body.

Done correctly with the required movements at each joint, in each plane of motion and timed optimally with the movement patterns of the foot (sounds a lot - it isn't!) we naturally begin to tap into the three dimensionality of stretching. This is the realm of 3D Anatomy

Your Midlands two day workshop introduces these patterns in the skeletal system and shows the impact on the soft tissue system and leaves you with a host of tools to play with when you get back to your clients on Monday.

After just one day, a student of mine, claimed his hips were more 'open' than ever and his clients were experiencing the same. Three workshops later he's an AiM addict.

I dare you to move statically....

Contact Gary to book your place on 10th and 11th July 2010

 

 

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