Get to Know Yourself

Perhaps more than anything else, the main goal of the FitzGordon Method is to help you get to know yourself. Let’s start with a simple question: do you know how you walk? Do you understand the way you move? Is your gait fast or slow? Is it easy or aggressive? Not until you can identify these traits can you try and understand why it is you have them in the first place. The program is about unlocking your patterns by first identifying them and then making an effort to change them, to take on new patterns by choice.

The first order of business in the FitzGordon Method is to acknowledge that you have a walk all your own. Once you’ve accepted that fact, you can begin to get to know it. Observe the way you walk. One way to do that is by looking at the way others walk, examining the myriad differences in step and gait and posture. This will help you gain a clearer picture of your own movement patterns. I believe that gaining an appreciation for the hows and whys of the way we move can be an experience that is both fun and enlightening.