Moving Well

Our minds, insight, knowledge, biases, and ignorance are not disconnected from physicality and embodiment. 

I have to work at moving out of my head and taking my body more seriously. 

 I enjoy watching GMB.io and other teachers of movement culture using small gentle movements and body weight exercises to work on flowing control. A dance of gravity and strength. 

I definitely feel that I have to make time for exercise, and don't. Particularly when I am desk-bound. I wrestle with deep soaked guilt. Maybe less guilt... and more prioritisation. Even though I *know* I need to move, the bottomless pit of things-to-do always seems to scream loudly. 

 

Movement culture proponents try incorporate movement into life, rather than explicity making time for it. 

How are you working? How are you sitting? While you are making a cup of tea, can you do some stretches as the kettle boils? Building movement into your lifestyle. Like kids, when they have to go somewhere... they run! 

Strength builds endurance. Like weight training where some stress in a controlled environment builds your capacity for when chaos descends. For when you are pushed outside your energy and power comfort zone. 

Flexibility builds resilience. Ideally. you are not just focused on one set of exercises, but you can adapt and adjust to whatever is happening. 

 

Control is the intention behind creativity. Where you move smoothly and consciously, despite - ambiguity, - randomness, and - complexity. 

When you watch masters of calisthenics, their bodies seem to operate according to different laws of physics. Yet their movement looks way more natural than the awkwardness of niggles and knots, when we normally don’t use our bodies then expect them to jump to action.