20 April 'Walk Your Shoulder Better'...
Monday 20 April 1pm BST / 9am EDT Live on Zoom We all love a beautiful walk. Accessible, free, meditative — one of the simplest pleasures there is, and genuinely one of the best things you can do for your body. But what if your walking mechanism is not working for you and your body as well as you think it is? What if there some is room for improvement? Maybe you come back from a long walk stiff, drained, even in pain and you can't work out why? If that's you, your walking mechanism needs some attention. This is true for many of us because modern life dismantles the natural walking pattern we were born with. Walking as a complex body movement is a fascial recoil system, a whole-body spring action which at best feels effortless, elastic, rhythmic and coordinated. When your walk is functioning like this it will be working for your body, especially arms that are painful, including your shoulder. However there is an alternative walking mechanism which relies more heavily on muscular action. This happens when your walk pattern is met with stiffness somewhere, resulting in a break in the mechanism. Your walk becomes tiring, uneven, heavier than it should be and this has a knock on effect throughout the body. I teach almost every patient I see how to walk, because most people I see in clinic need this work. In this workshop I've packaged that training into four essential components: 1. Shoulder freedom, arm swing and upper body rotation 2. Big toe push-off, the start of the fascial chain 3. Posterior chain activation, glutes and hamstrings 4. Breathing, the connector and conductor We're putting the shoulder centre stage, because the shoulder is a common area which takes the brunt of the problem, when the walking mechanism doesn't flow. But this workshop is for everyone who wants to use their walk as the powerful, restorative tool it was always meant to be. Come ready to move. This is interactive, and it will change how you walk. The zoom link is here: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82028578043