Moving into Health

Without the right activation of muscles in the correct order, no amount of stretching and strengthening will balance the system.  In fact, they can make it worse.  Proper neurological patterning also includes bracing and trauma responses.   From a somatic perspective, the path forward is very much the same.  You must start off as gently as possible to maximize your ability to feel what is going on.  This generally means laying down.  From here, it is moving slowly that unlocks awareness of your movement patterns.  With greater speed, you would zoom past your areas of dysfunction with momentum without noticing what is happening.  

For some, there may be emotional content here.  For others, the sensations will be more physical.  Either way, curiosity must be cultivated around what is felt.  These are areas that we would generally rather not feel.  The job is to feel them.  Moving slowly, we find our places of discontinuity and that provides critical information to the brain.  Take your time with the process, it is setting the foundation for all the steps to come.  You know you are done when you can move slowly and gracefully through your range of motion.  It doesn’t have to be as big as possible, just smooth and comfortable.  This is learning a new skill, so it’s best to do more sessions that are shorter throughout the day.