I shared this video of one of my favorite weird exercises a few months ago, but I thought I would share it again and talk a bit about what’s happening when you do it! When I shared this originally, I talked about how I often use it with my students that tend to hyperextend their …
In my seemingly endless pursuit of sharing weird and silly exercises with the world, here’s a new YouTube video for you! This one is about body tapping. I learned body tapping through the Franklin Method. They use it to start waking up the body, getting the proprioceptors awake, and the fascia moving. The added bonus …
Something about me is that I love to come up with weird exercises. The thing about my weird exercises though, is that they’re not something to put in your workout. I don’t want you trying to bang out 10 reps or anything. The point of these exercises is to help create an experience, to offer …
I shared this clip of a shoulder warm up on IG the other day, and people were really into it, which is always nice. But then I got to thinking about what was happening in the body in the exercise, and that set off my nerd brain. And when that happens, I gotta write a …
I often talk about how pathways in aerial show up over and over. But maybe I don’t always explain what I mean. So let’s talk about a pathway I call “rolling over/keying over”. To introduce this pathway, I use a floor exercise adapted from Bartenieff fundamentals. It is important to note that we’re going to …
You might have noticed, I spend a lot of time talking about bodies and movement. Imagine how much more time I spend thinking about bodies and movement. It’s a lot. I’ve been doing this work for a pretty long time at this point, and over the years the way I think about these things has …
