A joyful path at Create Movement
Although caring for your whole self is important for everybody, it becomes even more important than ever during the times of being a mother of young children.
Kim is a businesswoman and mum of two children. She depends on supportive conversations in the preand post-natal sessions and also she has taken up face-to-face sessions during pregnancy and after child birth. Regularly tuning into your BODY/ MIND and recognising when something feels off key, and seekingfor help can make such a difference.
In Kim case for example, she started in 2015, doing mat work Pilates with me without previousexperience in Pilates but set powerful goals and commitment to come back to the practice. She is determined to stay committed, even during times of feeling overwhelmed due to her twin roles at home and at work.
I have spent many years teaching in clinical environment for osteo's and physios and I had a wonderful career in a boutique Pilates studio in North Fitzroy teaching many mothers. Some sessions included the bubs. When Kinh started Pilates with me she was determined to continue her sessions, and she quickly noticed the changes in her body and posture and wellbeing. It was a no brainer. She would remain focused on her well-being in this phase of life as a mother.
Rather than trying to override dysfunction, or perhaps difficulty with body minded exercises and finding the time with two young children, the facia-based movement practice, focuses on the body's natural flow and that is exactly what I see happening over at least the past twelve years since I brought Myofascial release and Fascia Movement into the classroom.
Fascia is the largest sensory organ in our body. You could ask yourself now, if fascia is a living record of experience, what happens when that experience overwhelms us? Trauma, nervous system dysregulationand postural imbalance, when unresolved, lodges itself in the body. Not in the form of visible scars but in tension, restriction or pain that seems to defy explanation. Increasingly, both science and somatic therapy point toward to fascia as one of the key places where this residue collects. Not through conscious memory but through patterns of contraction, dehydration and dysfunction, that subtly alter the way we move and feel.
During my teaching sessions for pre and post-natal pregnancy, over the past years, I have noticed that women’s health and pelvic floor training and breath work is the key to the wellbeing of becoming a mother.
But I also keep in the forefront, that fascia stores everything that the body doesn’t have time to process ...emotions, trauma, tension and ancestral patterns. From a scientific view, fascia has over a thousand times more sensory organs than the brain.
Energetically it’s the interface between the body and the soul. Spiritually it is where you hold what wasn'texpressed, until it's safe to feel. Fascia can become dehydrated due to stress, emotions and trauma or repetitive strain. Now we could go on about the nervous system, but simply, all I want to highlight in this blog post is that you start the journey. You learn about the body, movement and breath.
When one commits over such a long stretch as Kim does, there is a wonderful journey unfolding from the learning about physical pain, understanding the changes in the body caused by becoming a mum. Moving through patterns, holding on, supporting with breath work, fascia movement and somatic therapy, all will assist and nurture the fascial system to help it communicate with nervous system.
This integrative mind body movement practice and fascia informed work will approach the body and mind in subtle and integrative ways and listening to the cues will allow stored tension to unravel through movement, awareness and breath. Win,win, win!
The body is healing. We can soften into the presence and surroundings and that will give us the wisdom to take it into daily life in a more functional and holistic oriented way. More resilience, more vitality and body consciousness.
Come along to our upcoming masterclasses or book a private session to find out what's really happening to your body and mind! For regular FAMO
Fascia Movement PRACTICE: WEDNESDAY 6.30 pm in Hampton at Castlefield Community Centre and Tuesdays 7 pm and Friday's 8.15 am online.