5 Continuous Jumps, Plantar Flexion and Hip Extension

When effort is needed, effort will appear, when effortlessness becomes essential it will assert itself.  You need not push life about, just flow with it and give yourself completely to the task and the present moment. Nisargadatta Maharaj In the Thursday morning running efficiency class, it was just Nick Mitchell and I, and as we […]

Overview of Recent Happenings

I thought I might take the time to update on recent happenings.  I have enjoyed having a routine in recent weeks with stability and movement control classes on Tuesday mornings and barefoot running/nose-breathing classes on the hill up to the shrine off Domain Road on Thursday mornings.  This along with individual consultations has been a […]

Understanding core stability in the context of ideal posture, and the importance of intra-abdominal pressure working in concert with eccentric diaphragmatic control

When we meet a fact  which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted. Claude Bernard (Father of modern scientific method who did the preliminary work on the basis for understanding ‘homeostasis’.  Homeostasis functions through multiple dynamic equilibrium […]

Movement Efficiency

Barefoot Running combined with Nose Breathing This week in the Financial Review (28/10/10) there was an article discussing the research that had been done on Men and Women who had run the London Marathon with an emphasis on those who had experienced heart problems. The people who had experienced heart problems in the data from […]

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