#movementstudies

[cerbereos]

some more movement studies, bc i really started to like them a lot again.🌿 . . . used artmodeltips.com for references. . #art #movementstudies #sketchbook #blueandred #croquis #women #cerbereosart https://www.instagram.com/p/CL4k8nRFWCt/?igshid=11dnpu7mptb20

[zengowellness]

Fascia Training - Level 1

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Hétvégén elvégeztem az Oriolus-Med Fascia alapképzését, ennek apropóján itt egy apró leírás, miről is szól ez. 

A fascia szó szerint formát ad testünknek, fejünktől lábujjainkig összetart minket, és fontos feladata van, az érzékelés. Ez a kollagéndús, szakadásnak ellenálló, szalagszerű szövet körülveszi az agyat, csontokat, izmokat, valamint az egyes izomrostokat, és a belső szerveket is összefogja.

Régebben a fascia kapcsán majdnem mindig a cellulitről volt szó, alábecsültük és alig vettük figyelembe. Mára már megállapították, hogy ennek a hálós rendszernek sokkal nagyobb befolyása van testünkre. Kutatók időközben az egyik legfontosabb érzékszervnek is mondják, ahol receptorok és idegsejtek vannak nagy számban jelen.

A fascia training

Mivel a háló rugalmassága meghatározza a mozdulatok, egy-egy mozgásfolyamat pontosságát, precizitását, helyes tréningje nagy jelentőségű pl. sportversenyek felkészülési időszakában, a versenyeken, amikor másodpercekkel, tized másodpercekkel jobb eredményre van szükség. Ugyanakkor egy rendkívül nélkülözhetetlen eleme a sérülések utáni időszak, vagy a krónikus megbetegedések rehabilitációjának is.

források:

http://www.physio-vit.net/component/k2/item/313-mi-is-a-fascia-legfontosabb-erzekszervunk

http://www.physio-vit.net/physio-blog/185-fascia-rendkivul-titokzatos-szovet-a-bor-alatt

ajánlott:

http://www.webbeteg.hu/cikkek/sport_egeszseg/16545/miert-fontos-serules-utan-a-fascia-edzesevel-is-torodni

So this weekend I participated in a Fascia Training level 1 course, here is a little description what is this and why is it important. 

A fascia (/ˈfæʃ(i)ə/; plural fasciae /ˈfæʃii/; adjective fascial; from Latin: "band") is a band or sheet of connective tissue, primarily collagen, beneath the skin that attaches, stabilizes, encloses, and separates muscles and other internal organs.[1] Fascia is classified by layer, as superficial fascia, deep fascia, and visceral or parietal fascia, or by its function and anatomical location.

Like ligaments, aponeuroses, and tendons, fascia is made up of fibrous connective tissue containing closely packed bundles of collagen fibers oriented in a wavy pattern parallel to the direction of pull. Fascia is consequently flexible and able to resist great unidirectional tension forces until the wavy pattern of fibers has been straightened out by the pulling force. These collagen fibers are produced by fibroblasts located within the fascia.[1]

Fasciae are similar to ligaments and tendons as they have collagen as their major component. They differ in their location and function: ligaments join one bone to another bone, tendons join muscle to bone, and fasciae surround muscles and other structures.

“Fascia training” is currently taking the sport and fitness world by storm, whether it be in the form of books, research articles or special training tools like the popular foam roller.

A well-trained and well-integrated fascial net optimizes peak forces, as well as the coordination of detailed movements. It is not the joint receptors giving information about how the body behaves kinesthetically but the many receptors located in the fascia. That means not the skin is our biggest sensory organ but the fascia. With fascial training you can push your limits of performance. Some sportsmen say: “Today I’ve been able to give 110% of my capacity”. Fascial trained sportsmen will answer: “I could give 140% and had lots of fun with it.”

sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascia

https://www.runtastic.com/blog/en/fascia-what-is-it-how-do-you-train-it-and-why-bother/

https://fascial-fitness.de/en/fascia-training/

[via-design]

Long Exposure light up toy

Movement/mechanism Studies

[via-design]

Aperture Iris Model

Movement/Mechanism studies

[alixsliwinski]

Layering the patterns

This is a reflective text over the past month for my movement studies module.

Looking at three new patterns this past month, the mouthing pattern with awareness to the digestive system, pre-spinal pattern with the soft spine, brain and spinal cord, and on to spinal pattern with the hard bone of the vertebra. Awareness to all elements has enabled me to understand the density of my torso, what it contains and the connections and systems within it. 

Moving with awareness to the brain and spinal cord has allowed me to connect my skull with the rest of my body the image of sensing and receiving signals and sensations through out the body sending them to the spinal cord and up the brain the center of intelligence to be processed. The nervous system being a web and network throughout my body engages my whole body in the action of sensing and perception. Tiny fibers alive within the tissues of my body travelling towards and away from the spinal cord which runs down the central line of my body and up to the brain. Being aware of the inter connectivity through my body allows me to be present to the many systems working as a whole. 

 Before I think I underestimated the length of my spine, the  journey from tail to skull is a very long journey from the base of my coccyx up into the base of my skull. Visualizing the space between each vertebra has enhanced my exploration of movement capability in my spine. I have explored using the pull of the spine to create a ripple of movement throughout my body. Finding and allowing the length in my spine creates more space for movement. 

Finding the support from the grounding surface allows me to build upwards and find strength and stability, yielding into the floor to push my body out of the floor and into space. I have found that this gives my transitional movement a fluid rebound and bounce by finding and strengthening the foundation through the yield which travels through my body to build my movement and push outward. 

Reaching out of the centre of my body with my limbs finding the intention and initiation points such as head, tail or arm, which travels down to the spine and to the core pull the rest of the limbs with it. The quality that is gives my movements is resistance and connection throughout my body not just moving through space for the sake of moving but I am being pulled through space being I am reaching out for something, moving my whole body with intent and purpose. 

What has become incredibly clear to me over the past month is how all of these patterns do not have to be constantly present in my moving and awareness all at once but how each individual pattern is always available in my body and can be called upon to add a different quality to my moving. Transferring it to technique and phrase based classes or even improvised movement to change the intention and quality that is behind the movement even though the movements may be the same, each pattern can be individually explored. I feel that is this capable because that patterns from cellular breathing to reach and pull, are not independent and closed chapters of moving, they are overlapping and interlinked progressive stages that support each other. They are constantly present in the human body and therefore can be awakened in any movement, however some more challenging than others for each individual. 

[alixsliwinski]

My Moving 31 days in.

This is a reflective text over the past month for my movement studies module.

Over the past month I have learnt about and developed an understanding of many different movement patterns and concepts, from skull to tail, skeleton to tissues and cell to starfish. I feel I have developed in my understanding of somatic practices and Body-Mind Centering, that is evident in my moving, thinking and writing. I have embraced my artist journal actively moving away from the restraints of the written word, and developing my expressive skills through sketches, diagrams and colour, however awful they may be in comparison to professional art work, I have learnt that they aid my visualization and reflection of movement.

 Entering this new learning environment and style and approach to movement studies, I felt I had little understanding and knowledge of the definition of somatic practice, I specifically remember the sheer terror when asked to rate our understanding of this term in the first practical session. I have since within the first week or so, realized that I had a conscious awareness to my own body, its structure and how it moves and how it is influenced by my mind, and therefore had a level of understanding of somatic practice. 

 My new understanding of somatics is that it is a completely individual awareness and engagement with the body. Through deep listening to the body itself and the sensory input from the surrounding environment, I can connect with my bodies wants and needs in relation to movement exploration. 

I have established this deep listening through the study of Body-Mind Centering, discovering the fundamental importance of deep, full breathing to connect with ones self and the environment, through a continual exchange of energy through each inhalation and exhalation. BMC has allowed a rich engagement and understanding of the systems of the body, as individual systems and working as a whole bodily system, through internalizing my focus working with the eyed closed and working with visual imagery in my minds eye. In some practices this engagement has been strong enough to allow light into the eyes and the external environment to be present, but in others I have found this distracting, but I presume this is something that will come with time and practice.

The first movement exploration that was exposed to me was the connection between head and tail. I often find myself thinking about the placement in space more so actually outside of class in day to day setting such as walking up the stairs or sat on the bus. Not only the placement of head and tail, but also the space between them, which I now value as vast and crucial part of my body, that I should not squish or compress but lengthen and expand with each breath. Not only thinking about the length between them but the initiation of movement from the skull and pelvis area has highlighted a new range of movement paths to follow and play with. ‘Play with’ being a new concept as well, movement as play, not restricted, over thought, right or wrong, but playing with what feels right in my body today.

This notion of cellular breathing is something that was completely distant and unavailable to me at first. I researched the cell structure and could visualize it in my minds eye but I could not translate it to my whole body. I struggled with the idea of my whole body breathing, I could visually see and feel the trunk of my body inhaling and exhaling but the concept of this process happening in all the muscles and tissues in my arms and legs was something I could not find in myself. It was in fact during hands on work with a partner, when I was using a listening touch on her leg just above the knee that I did experience and understand further this process of cellular breathing throughout the body, I felt movement and expansion. 

It is through the use of touch that I have developed awareness to the different individual layers and areas of my body, through different types of touch ranging in pressure and motion, to allow for a fuller movement exploration in this specific area such as the spine or the tissues of the body. The use of touch has also been extremely beneficial to my FMP and dissertation research, exploring skin as a major sensory organ and touch being a means of stimulation, how can the awareness skin and touch be used to supplement other sensory impairments.

Most of all something that I have recently found extremely interesting is the movement pattern of naval radiation. The concept of six limb bodies is something new to me that I have connected with quite strongly, moving with all the limbs in relation to each other through the naval. I have enjoyed researching this pattern from the fetal stages to my own moving body. I have found that it has enriched my moving and awareness to my body as a whole structure, not just in class but in my pedestrian moving, and practice of Pilates and Yoga.

I have actively been able to interlink my own practice in the movement studies module to other areas of my research. I am contently learning new things which cross over into my research for dissertation, FMP, and IPP3 research project. I am able to take my own experiences in moving and engagement with somatics and apply them to other modules, environments and research projects, applying my new found body awareness to the outside world.