Fridays 6-7pm
Miller’s Way Project, Shepherd’s Bush
£15
building strength and fluidity by refining the archetypal development patterns we made throughout our infancy and evolution. Self-tuning mobility, strength and human locomotion.
Start crawling, end flying
(Re)find and retune your body through moving on and close to the floor. Mobility and movement practice inspired by ancestral and childlike patterns, milestones and curiosity. From lying to standing, rolling to crawling, the progression is both restorative but can progress to a challenging intensity if wanted, with the class bookended with resting postures to leave you feeling restored ready for your weekend. Whether crawling like we once did as children or even further back in our evolutionary past, the class also connects to exploring the beginnings and decoded influences of dance and martial arts floor work/ground interaction, the class is for everyone who wants a simple way to move and feel better and invest in ageing gracefully.
Including:
Archetypal resting postures & movement: our original human positions from which movement emerged from and returned back to for rest. Reclaiming these postures Lying, sitting, kneeling & squatting to retune the joints
Transitions: The positions above are great landmarks, but the real magic happens with the motion and transitions between them. Patterns and connections children do often and don’t have to think about. So this class offers a way back to them as adults with clear and progressive steps.
Up & Down: Different strategies to stand up from and get down to the floor, whilst observing the effects of gravity, to understand the health of your joints working together. Reclaiming this vital ability we developed as children is key to giving us feedback on how we are ageing.
Locomotion/moving across the floor: - The balance, stability and strength created through crawling, rolling and other human and evolutionary locomotion patterns.
Floor to restore: Use the floor like a foam roller to give your body the diversity and softening it craves leaving it feeling and moving better.
The floor can be your friend: (instead of your foe as we age). How do we improve our relationship with the floor, so that we may interact with it more gracefully, from everyday life getting to and from the floor, to “life’s earthquakes”, such as falling safely. We start with gently regaining familiarity with the fundamentals and steadily building confidence and competence so that what was once a fall, becomes an unexpected visit to a familiar friend.
Some examples of crawling/animal patterns and ground transitions
