Embodied Anatomy: Training the Calves to Improve Posture

Embodied Anatomy: Training the Calves to Improve Posture

Calves We don’t always think about our calf muscles in improving posture.  Where your shins stand in relationship to your foot influences your entire structure.  Balancing the muscles of the calves help with our function . With having ACL tears in both knees,  my...

Embodied Anatomy Reformer: Hippiness to the Knee w. Lesley Powell

With both knees having ACL tears, keeping the physicality of my legs is essential.  I find that I need to slowly wake up the coordination of my legs and spine.  Closed chain movements are important.  How you organize your legs in standing is very different than open...

Feet talks to the Legs to the Core w. Lesley A. Powell

Understanding the grounding of your foot affects the coordination of the leg and the spine.  Irmagard Bartenieff’s Fundamentals: Pelvic Shift Forward and Lateral is about how the legs transfers the body in space.  It is an intricate dance of the muscles of the feet,...