http://www.PracticalMovement.com http://massagenerd.com http://worldmassagefestival.com Practical Movement is a technique that takes your clients beyond pain relief to lasting recovery. While hands-on work and stretching provide relief and lengthen muscles, those techniques alone do not restore proper movement patterns. And although neuromuscular re-education results in better functionality overall, it does not necessarily provide the specificity to restore postural balance. Practical Movement links these approaches by targeting neuromuscular re-education to specific muscles, thereby retraining them and restoring proper posture and movement patterns.
Practical Movement is:
Muscle-specific, function-specific movement.
Practical Movement is a systematic approach to therapeutic movement. It maps over 160 movements specifically designed to re-educate the neuromuscular system, activate muscles that are not functioning well, and create postural balance through targeted lengthening of shortened muscles.
Structurally-based movement re-education.
Practical Movement is designed to help clients retrain faulty movement patterns and restore postural balance. The movements in the Practical Movement curriculum are used to wake up the musculature to get it functioning again (activating movements) or to address postural imbalances by lengthening shortened muscles (balancing movements). By exerting conscious control over processes that we have allowed to become unconscious, change occurs.
A technique you can immediately use.
Practical Movement provides a method of assessing postural imbalances and selecting movements to address the involved muscles. The techniques that you learn over a weekend can be used immediately to help change pain patterns and correct postural imbalances. The manual in each course is a valuable resource, enabling you to find and apply the movements right away. The goal of Practical Movement is to find the right movement for the right time in an individual's process. Practical Movement seminars teach the skills that enable you to do that.
How Practical Movement Works
Somatic movement practitioners agree that moving with awareness allows the body to reorganize and regain neuromuscular control. Practical Movement takes this core philosophy and builds upon it.
Over time we can develop faulty movement programs that are not physiologically correct. For example, we might be compensating for an injury or we perhaps mimicked dysfunctional behaviors in early childhood as we learned how to walk. These movement programs, also known as engrams, interact with postural reactions to help us determine what feels normal to us. If what we learn is not physiologically correct, then our sense of normal is skewed. It is this concept that explains how postural imbalances stay locked in and clients gravitate back to these imbalances even when our hands-on work reduces the imbalance.
The targeted movements taught in Practical Movement seminars are designed to help clients retrain faulty engrams and learn to change what "normal" is so that it is closer to physiologically correct movement or posture. Practical Movement adds targeted movement to your massage session to bring a different level of release to the musculature and enable your hands-on work to be more effective with less effort.
