About
It is more important than ever before to take care of and nurture our body. This includes gentle exercise to support the body to heal and to build and maintain a physically fit, and strong body that is also a healthy and vital body. The exercise training we each do must be specific to our own body at an intensity that we can maintain a connection with our self and our body in. Exercising regularly in such a way we can build a deeper connection with our body - beginning to feel and understand what imbalances are present, so we can start to honour exactly what exercise program, our body needs and at what intensity or how much to complete.
Gentle Exercise Training is exercising in a way that we feel and stay with our body in every movement. Feeling every active muscle or supporting ligament we can become aware of when we go hard or tense from pushing beyond what our body truly needs, or from trying to do something that our mind thinks our body needs. Exercising then becomes a time of listening to our body and enjoying how our body feels when we move with it in a more gentle way, then taking this way of being with our body to our whole day.
Gentle Exercise Training is very different to how exercise is usually taught or practiced in a gym, exercise class, school sports or any sport, where much of the focus is on the performance of how much weight is being lifted, repetitions complete, time being achieved or even how many calories are being burnt. This conventional way of exercise training is normally aimed at building a more muscly body, loosing weight or increasing physical performance, with little consideration of how the exercises are actually feeling in the body and how the body is immediately responding to the exercise. It is common for someone's body to become very hard or tense or full of lactic acid when exercising in such a way, or for the person to be unaware of any imbalances that are not only not being dealt with, but are actually being magnified or becoming worse with each exercise. Although this way of training can be improved with greater awareness on technique and it does result in the short- to long-term outcomes (increased muscle size, increased muscle strength, reduced weight, reduced resting heart rate, reduced blood pressure and increased cardiac fitness), the long-term results can be much much worse or even crippling for later life, because there is little or no true connection with the body and what it truly needs.
About Harmony In Movement
Harmony In Movement is established on the principles that we must be connected with our self and our body before we move or exercise - so we can move and exercise our body in a way that our body truly needs. Moving and exercising in such a way builds the connection with our self and brings a greater awareness to the imbalances that may be present within the musculoskeletal system and internal physiology. Maintaining a connection with our self and having a greater awareness of the disharmony in our own body we can begin to feel and understand what healing, treatment or exercise we need to bring our body back into balance and back into Harmony In Movement. Exercise training in such a way is naturally a very gentle and playful experience - not adding any further strain, tension, stress or disharmony to the body - discovering and establishing our own Gentle Exercise Training.