I always enjoy watching videos of sprinting Cheetahs. They are so powerful, yet slender and graceful as their body undulates with ease for maximum efficiency and speed. Notice when the spine is in extension the base of the tail points upwards, not downwards. The area between the base of the tail and the rear legs […]
Principles of Good Work Sitting Posture
These are easy to follow principles of good work sitting posture. Now observe your body sensations, does the posterior compartment of your pelvic floor, your coccyx area feel spacious? Does your spine give you support? Your sitting position should be comfortable, however keep in mind that the human body is designed for movements, not for […]
Chavutti Massage – An Extraordinary Holistic Experience
Chavutti Thirumal massage is massage by foot pressure. It is characterised by exceptional long fluid strokes from neck to toes. The arches and curves of the foot matching perfectly the contours of the body, as if the foot had been designed for giving massage, allow a full body deep tissue experience that other massages rarely […]
Tennis Ready Position: Support versus Compression
In the men’s Wimbledon tennis final today one could notice two champions with two very different ‘ready positions’. Novak Djokovic was flexing at the knee and hip joints keeping his spine neutral while Nick Kyrgios was flexing his spine. Who do you think gets more structural support from his spine and more support from the ground? Who […]
Rolfing for Scoliosis
Rolfing for scoliosis: Scoliosis is a condition in which a person’s spine has sideways curves; The symptoms can include feeling unbalanced and stiffness or tightness in the back; This client who is in her fifties had scoliosis since childhood; In one Rolfing session I used gentle Rolfing manipulation techniques to ease tensions in the connective […]
Looking to ease tension in your legs? Don’t forget the Adductors, they’re ‘Everyone’s Friends’!
Rolfing for Easing tensions in the legs and free movements. If like many of us, you experience chronic tightness in your thigh muscles this post might help. Exercises for releasing the quadriceps, hamstrings and abductors are well known and can help. However often, these exercises alone are unlikely to fully release tension and give a […]
Buttock Pain and Scoliosis
Buttock pain keeps coming back ? In Rolfing Structural Integration we look farther afield. The piriformis muscle is conventionally described as a hip rotator as it turns the leg and foot outward, but it does more. When the thigh is free to move (when we lift a leg off the floor), indeed contracting the piriformis […]