Mechanics

It is as simple as trying highlight the connection between improved mechanics and healthier bodies. So many aches and pains and injuries are the result of not understanding the specifics of the body’s design. If you know how the body is meant to work you will get injured far less. The FitzGordon Method walking program grew out of a need to synthesize many forms of exercise and bodywork into our daily lives 24/7/365.

We all go to get worked on but don’t often do much work on ourselves. There is no aspect of bodywork or fitness that I don’t love. The alignment of yoga is subtle and profound but all too often it is done well in yoga class and left behind after the last om. The incredible number of running injuries that occur each year could easily persuade you to think that we are not meant to be jogging by the millions. On the contrary we are designed very specifically to run, only we are meant to do it with an efficient harmony of muscles and bones that can actually allow a marathon to be relaxing. Likewise, massage and other forms of bodywork are wonderful at relieving chronic tensions from the body week after week. But what if learning better alignment in posture and walking freed you from those chronic tensions and allowed the body to move with ease and grace without needing to be readjusted all the time?

It is important to believe in the ability to change. We are not very good at it. To paraphrase the Buddha- “we seek permanence in an impermanent world”. Our explorations into the body and its movement patterns have shown us that not only can we change our posture and walking patterns for physical benefit but also structural changes can bring emotional changes through a freeing up of the body’s nervous system.