Do you really need a warm-up for a yoga session? Isn’t yoga gentle enough on its own? If you need a little kickstart, how about just doing some sun salutes? The answers are, respectively… Maybe not, probably, and yes, often that’s enough… But haven’t you ever got a couple of postures into your routine and thought that something’s just a little sticky? Maybe there’s one little bit of your back that feels a tad locked, or the hips are just not as supple as usual. Well, if you have, somatic movement might just be the answer… Read more »
The best warmup for yoga? How about Somatics?
June 4th, 2011Manage Arthritis With Hanna Somatic Movement Education
February 6th, 2011There are so many methods out there for easing the pain and stiffness associated with arthritis, so why should you need another one? Well, imagine a gentle exercise routine that you will be much more motivated to keep up because it causes no pain, positively discourages any stress or discomfort, teaches you more about your illness, and actually feels wonderfully soothing! Read on… Read more »
Thoracic Spine Pain Cures With Somatic Movement Education
February 6th, 2011Although thoracic spine pain is not so common as lumbar pain, it can be a difficult area to treat effectively, especially by yourself, as it isn’t so mobile as the lumbar spine, and there is often rib involvement too. Whatever the cause, Somatic Movement Education’s gentle routines can be a great help in unlocking the causes of thoracic problems and tensions, leaving you pain free in a relatively short time, and leaving you with the knowledge and techniques to dissolve the problem in the future should it arise again. Read more »
Beat Your Neck Pain With Somatic Movement Education
February 6th, 2011How nasty is a ‘cricked neck’? Maybe you’ve slept in an odd position, or maybe you’ve reached for something and felt a shooting pain that develops into a horrible spasm that lasts for days or longer, limiting your movements and making you feel just dreadful. Several packets of painkillers later and a few visits to the chiropractor and you might just get some short-term relief, but wouldn’t you like to find out why it happens and discover a way to get to the root of the problem so it never happens again? Of course you would, and here’s how… Read more »
Lose the Lower Back Pain with Somatic Movement Education
February 6th, 2011Lower back problems and sciatica are some of the most common reasons people suffer with chronic pain and have to limit their lifestyles and even stay off work. If you are one of those for whom this is a recurring nightmare, and you spend fortunes on painkillers and expensive trips to the chiropractor, wouldn’t you like to discover how to take control of this condition yourself and stay pain free while saving all that money you spend patching up the symptoms and not getting to the root cause? A system of gentle exercises called Somatic Movement Education might just be what you need… Read more »
Lower Your Heart Rate to Reduce the Impact of Cardio Workouts
February 6th, 2011As enjoyable and invigorating as a good cardio workout can be, it’s often much longer than interval training or weight training, and they can take their toll on the system, especially for such athletes as long-distance runners and cyclists. However, it’s not just the professional athletes who can benefit from reducing the impact on the body without cutting the workouts short. So what is this magic formula that can keep us exercising safely right into our later years? Read more »
Five Ways To Go Holistic and Get Super Healthy
February 6th, 2011Ok, so what does it mean to be super healthy? Is it to get muscular, or fit, or just to get your abs out? A lot of this type of physical-only goal is pushed by the media these days, but are the models in the photos really super-healthy? Well, maybe, and maybe not. A lot of how good the body looks can be down to genetics, and underneath the rippling abs, a whole host of problems might be brewing. To get super-healthy, you have to look at several areas, and not all just to do with the body. Read more »
Eating A Varied Diet
February 6th, 2011Eat a varied diet – we’ve all heard it a million times, but why exactly is it so important? Why shouldn’t we just stick with our favourite foods? Life would be so much simpler, shopping would be easier, and we wouldn’t have to become some kind of cookery expert. Well, at first maybe that would be the case, but eating the same foods over and over can result in all sorts of problems… Read more »
Why Doctors Say There’s No Cure For Arthritis And Other Autoimmune Diseases
February 6th, 2011While it’s true that there’s no magic bullet to relieve all the causes and symptoms of such diseases as arthritis, this is not to say there’s no cure. The problem is that the cure is often very complicated, as complicated as the circumstances that caused the imbalance in the first place, and doctors just do not have the time for that sort of an investigation. Read more »
How To Turn an Illness Into a Blessing
February 6th, 2011Normally the articles I write are about how to prevent any imbalances in the body by following, among other things, Ayurvedic principles of diet and exercise. But what if you have already fallen foul of some unpleasant ailment – is it the end of the world? Quite often it can be just the opposite… A new beginning… Read more »
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About this blog.
Having written a diet and exercise book, I could always just have pretended that I was in superb shape, as many online ‘gurus’ probably do, but I decided to take a different tack for this blog…
I’m going to do something unusual here for a proponent of health and fitness, and admit that over the five years or so up to January 2010, due to life circumstances and downright laziness, my focus had changed somewhat, and I had ‘fallen off the wagon’. I only spent a fraction of the time that I used to on maintaining body and soul, and my diet had deteriorated into more of an exercise in recreation than in nourishment, with predictable results. It’s surprising how quickly a neglected diet and a focus on the complexities of modern life over and above one’s health can catch up with you, and at the time of starting this blog, in early January 2010, I had never been so out of condition.
However, having made that admission, I think it put me in an even better position to start this blog. The first posts cover a four-month period when I used the principles from my e-book, Pure Activity, and Brian Ingle’s Somatic Movement Education video. I describe my own experience of how they got my body back in the great shape it was in 1996 when I originally wrote the book. I hope I can inspire you to take the journey too, and to succeed in getting your own body into great shape using these beautifully balancing techniques.
The Pure Activity e-book and the Somatic Movement video are now available for download together for just $47.95.
