Freedom In Your Chest — Breath and

Movement

We breath all the time - we have to or we die! But we seldom think about how we breathe. When we get more energetic whether it is hurrying for the bus or in sport or dance we need our breathing to have a good foundation before it quickens for us to achieve our goals.

In this Workshop we will focus on the chest and how  we can achieve free flowing movement in the ribs, upper spine, lungs, heart, shoulders and diaphragm muscle (breathing muscle). The bony and muscular frame work of the chest is a complex piece of structural engineering that moves dynamically with breath 24 hours a day - the maxim that we get good at doing what we repeat is incredibly true here. If we have a poor breathing pattern we are really working to keep that bad habit every minute of every day. By bringing attention to our breath - beginning to embody the incredible elegance of the chest’s natural design we can start to overcome these bad habits of breathing to liberate our breath to support us as we live our daily lives.

Our breathing is incredibly important in maintaining our posture - the mechanics of the bones and the muscles are part of that but another part of it is the subtle shifting support of the organs held in the chest’s embrace. Working with improving the alignment and freedom of movement of the chest organs - heart and lungs - can greatly improve our posture.

The skills and ideas embodied in this workshop are useful beyond their personal application in daily domestic life. If you are someone who works in coaching movement (sport, dance or martial arts say) then what you learn here can enrich you professional life. Likewise for Heath Practitioners like Osteopaths, Doctors, Physiotherapists and other bodyworkers - what you learn in these workshops in terms of experiential anatomy and its use through movement and imagery work in facilitating better body awareness is something you can begin to use with your clients /patients. If you want to know more about this aspect of this workshop, or the workshops I run in general, then please contact me David Kellett DO, Franklin Method Teacher

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