Come to your Senses

Simple physical exercises that can be used to treat specific injuries, enhance sporting performance, and radically change the way in which we move.

This practical course is designed to re explore movement in a simple natural way that engages the whole body. It reawakens, incorporates and integrates the basic role our senses play through developmental movement patterns. Learning to move through our senses again is how we learnt to move as a child.

As a child we learnt to move through our senses in two distinctive patterns, unilateral and crosslateral movements. By identifying specific areas of restriction within these patterns it is possible to treat localised dysfunction as well as the global movement pattern.

This course is different from other movement or exercise programmes, as it takes the participant back to how they learnt to move as a child. A child moves to interact with and explore his environment, and the environment is experienced through the senses. Movement and our senses are inextricably linked.

It is through the combination of developmental movement patterns with the stimulation of the senses that makes these simple exercises so astonishingly powerful and effective. Your patients/clients will learn to move with less rigidity and greater fluidity, with less tension and greater efficiency. Movement and maintaining posture will simply become effortless.

From a sporting perspective, much time and effort is devoted to fine tuning skills practices, without actually paying attention to basic processes involved. For example,

some of the prerequisites of being able to catch a ball would be, having a good sense of balance, spatial awareness, and coordinated hand eye movement. The exercises from this course will enhance sporting performance at this very basic level.

Course Goals

Each participant will have :-

•  An understanding as to how the whole body has to be able to move in order to function efficiently and effectively.

•  A simple global assessment tool to identify patterns of restriction or dysfunction in the body.

•  An understanding as to how these global patterns impact on specific injuries or symptoms.

•  An experiential understanding of how our senses are fundamental to and influence the way in which we move.

•  A simple series of progressive developmental movement exercises combined with sense exercises that address patterns of restriction, addressing specific injuries or symptoms but within the context of the whole.

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Course dates planned:

Liverpool 27th June 2008