Moving Wellness

One of my favourite course deliveries sessions underway here in NYC in 2015. The four foot types...⁠
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🦶🏼Flat foot / Flexible⁠
🦶🏾High arched / Rigid⁠
🦶Flat foot / Rigid⁠
🦶🏻High arched / flexible⁠
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The message is that pigeon-holing your foot type is not a useful way to approach working with a foot. They come in different shapes and sizes and we should have a thought process about working with anything we come across. It comes with time but we just need a place to start...⁠
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Turns out that where to start is often a case of either a) starting to teach a foot to pronate or b) teaching a foot to supinate (so that it has a better position to pronate from!⁠
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At the end of the day a foot must have the capcaity to both pronate and supinate if it's going to efficiently and effortlessly make it's way through the git cycle with approproate timing and connections made through the whole kinetic chain.⁠
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So try this ensuring a tripod is present throughout:⁠
🦶🏼Flat foot / Flexible - PRONATE IT (so it can supinate in response)⁠
🦶🏾High arched / Rigid - PRONATE IT (so it can rest in a less supinated position and have more mobility)⁠
🦶Flat foot / Rigid - PRONATE IT (to mobilise the tissues) and SUPINATE IT (so the bones know where to go when they do supinate in response to the pronation)⁠
🦶🏻High arched / flexible - (these often look flat and turned out, which i teach in other posts that that is a set up demanding to pronate better so - PRONATE IT! (to enable it make the most of that natural arch set up).⁠
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In our Closed Chain BIomechanics courses I teach you what a pronation is and how to go about ensuring a foot can pronate, what to look for from the toe all the way up to the pelvis and the same for foot supination too. Turns out it's so much more than an arch going up and down 🤫😉⁠
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getting settled in our new home and looking forward to continuing the journey of improving alignment, relieving pain, and AIMing4fun!

I don't do this very often.... in fact I never do this. Who am I kidding? 😆 I never take the before pic and so don't worry about the after pic. Today I took pics because I knew it would help the guy and he kindly said I could stick them up on the old IG. The pic on the right is before and the pic on the left is after todays session. It's quite a dofference. Swipe left to see the areas I have highlighted. Thoracic - cervical alignment, shoulder height, and the S-curve in the spine. I even screen recorded the iPhone ruler as you get a chance to see just how straight that spine ended up 🙌🏼 👀 (just noticed that the red line in the upper spine is not as accurately drawn as I would have liked) Our bodies are truly wonderful organisms. Between the before and after pic was two sessions with me, two sessions of cranial work on an impactful concussion and the removal of a titanium tooth in favour of a ceramic one. One hell of a journey for this chap who has fully taken ownership of his body. Top man 👊🏼 Keep eyes open for the next Flow Motion Model course this month 👀 #flowmotionmodel #wakeyourbodyup #wakeyourfeetup #whatthefoot #anatomyinmotion

Our bodies can change and adapt in both hurtful as well as healing directions!

I figure if I'm going to be teaching Introduction to Anatomy in Motion classes, maybe I should explain what the Anatomy in Motion Method is, and how you (movement professionals) will benefit from the class: https://flowmotioneducation.com/what-is-anatomy-in-motion/