The Power of Slowing Down with Rolfing Expert Mary Bond
05/26/20 • 45 min
Physical pain is often the reason people seek out body work, and it can also be the catalyst that leads them to greater body awareness.
As we discuss with author and certified Rolfing expert Mary Bond, body awareness is useful in learning your limits and capacities. By slowing down and learning to be present in yourself through your body, you give yourself time for more feedback to take place.
We talk with Mary about our movement starved bodies in this digital age, and how our tunnel of awareness narrows with our constant connection to screens. We also get into everything from dancing and aging to somatic resilience and boxing with Parkinson’s.
It’s easy to constantly judge ourselves for what our bodies can’t do. But if we remained curious and interested, celebrating our movement capacity right now?
Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
The Breathing Book by Donna Farhi
Physical pain is often the reason people seek out body work, and it can also be the catalyst that leads them to greater body awareness.
As we discuss with author and certified Rolfing expert Mary Bond, body awareness is useful in learning your limits and capacities. By slowing down and learning to be present in yourself through your body, you give yourself time for more feedback to take place.
We talk with Mary about our movement starved bodies in this digital age, and how our tunnel of awareness narrows with our constant connection to screens. We also get into everything from dancing and aging to somatic resilience and boxing with Parkinson’s.
It’s easy to constantly judge ourselves for what our bodies can’t do. But if we remained curious and interested, celebrating our movement capacity right now?
Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
The Breathing Book by Donna Farhi
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Physical Freedom - The Power of Slowing Down with Rolfing Expert Mary Bond
Transcript
You know, life in general has made it possible for us to live and not be present anymore. Various revolutions, the agricultural revolution, the Industrial Revolution, and now the electronic revolution, with with each one of those changes in the way we work and the way we use our bodies to live, we do less movement and we are less present, which is what that was the example I was saying before of how do you get your breakfast when you're an ancien
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