NICOLE OHME

My dear Yogis and Yoginis,

As some of you know, I love traveling!
Going on a road trip on my own just with my dog evoked a mix of emotions, including fear and excitement.

Through the experience of the 28+ reset, I became emotionally more stable and are able to shift my perceptions a bit more easily. I know that shifting my perspective from fear to excitement can have a profound impact on how I experience the journey.

If you feel similar when you go on your vacation or a trip, here are a few reasons why changing fear into excitement can make a significant difference:

– Embracing the unknown: Traveling often involves encountering unfamiliar situations, cultures, and environments. While fear might make you hesitant or apprehensive, embracing the unknown with excitement allows you to approach new experiences with an open mind and a sense of curiosity.

– Overcoming personal barriers: Transforming fear into excitement can empower you to step outside of your comfort zone. By embracing the adventure, you can challenge yourself and grow as an individual. Traveling often presents opportunities for personal development and self-discovery.

– Creating positive memories: When you approach a trip with excitement, you’re more likely to focus on the positive aspects of the journey. This mindset can enhance your overall experience and help you create lasting memories. It allows you to fully immerse yourself in the adventure and appreciate the unique moments along the way.

– Embracing flexibility: Travel plans don’t always go as expected, and unexpected situations can arise. By shifting from fear to excitement, you can adopt a flexible mindset that enables you to adapt and make the most of any situation. Embracing the adventure with enthusiasm allows you to find joy and opportunity even in unexpected circumstances.

– Opening yourself to new possibilities: Fear often holds us back from trying new things or taking risks. However, by changing fear into excitement, you open yourself up to a world of possibilities. You might discover hidden gems, meet incredible people, or engage in activities that you would have otherwise missed out on.

I am sure it is nothing you haven’t heard before or didn’t know. Something it is just a good reminder!

I am embracing to feel a mix of emotions before going on this trip. I will consciously choose excitement over fear. Extending my personal journey into this travel experience that can become a truly transformative and fulfilling adventure!

Like always we can practice this already on our mat to change consciously your perception. How does your body feel when it moves into a state of fear/stress? What is the quality of the breath then? Can you change your perception?

Monday 26.06.
Feeling Grounded
Flow

Wednesday 28.06.
Open to New Possibilities
Flow

Thursday 06.07.
Open Theme
Yogis Choice

Friday 07.07.
Embracing All
Slow Flow

Monday 10.07.
Creating Memories
Flow

Wednesday 12.07.
Giving up Control
Slow Flow

I am taking you with me on the journey! 🙂

Love,

Nicole

My dear Yogis and Yoginis,

The 28Day Reset has come to and end but my journey with Human Garage feels like just started. Here are some more valuable facts that might be of interest to you as well.

Points of Contact
Have you ever walked in a dark room and the only point of contact you had was your feet on the floor? You can’t see where you’re going so your body tightens in fear that you might walk into something. Then all of a sudden you reach out your hand and touch a wall, your body calms down and feels safe. You now have three points of contact to navigate you through the room.

This concept is really important to understand when working with the human body. When your body is in water, under a weighted blanket or being hugged by someone close to you it feels safe. The more points of contact the safer the body feels. That’s because it has more information of where it is in space and no longer has to make calculations to stabilize and moderate movement while protecting itself from external stressors.

We’ve found it takes a minimum of three points of contact to create the feeling of safety in the body and began applying this theory in the clinical setting with three practitioners working on one client at a time: the body would relax and release faster without pain.

Exercise: If you want to test this theory: have a friend place one foot on top of yours, one hand on your arm and one on your chest. Close your eyes and feel your body. Have them slowly take away the hand on your chest and feel your body change. Then, have them put it back on. Repeat this a few times and feel how your body reacts to having three points of contact versus two. You may even experience a heighten sense of awareness because the body is no longer using its energy to protect itself.

The Fetal Position

In our study of the human body we analyzed and broke down human movement. We observed each zone and side of the body and how they move in counter rotation to the other. That means when we walk: one arm goes forwards while one goes backwards, the head goes one way and the torso goes to the other, one leg rotates inward while one rotates outward creating equal pressure distribution throughout the body with each step.

As the movements become more complex we see the body wind itself into different positions to generate force and create movement. This can be seen as a baseball pitcher winds his body into a standing fetal position and then explodes in forward motion throwing the ball at high speeds. This winding and utilization of the fetal position is one of the most powerful methods to generate explosive movement and transition from one state to another.

We began exploring the fetal position in therapy to understand what impacts it would have on healing. Lying on one side, we would instruct our clients to cross their legs and hug themself as we rolled them into a ball and had them breathe. To our surprise, deep emotional and physical trauma would come to the surface and release.

But is it really that surprising? We know the body has memory and that the highest point of growth in a humans life is during the first 9 months in the fetal position inside the mothers womb. So why wouldn’t the body enjoy this position? Why wouldn’t it trigger a memory and stimulate healing? These are all the questions we asked ourselves as began to create the Fascial Maneuvers. When doing Fascial Maneuvers one of the core principles is counter rotation and the fetal position with each position winding and rotating the body to create internal pressure and release.
~ Human Garage

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I am so grateful to have found the guys from the Human Garage. I found them at a very challenging time in my life and it felt like they have thrown me a life line just before I started to drown.
These all in all 40 days reset has shown me a new holistic way to heal. By approaching my emotions on a physical level I have become mentally and emotionally more stabil that I can heal myself on all levels. I know there are still so many more layers to unfold, but I feel that I am on the way to finally becoming “me” again.

Monday 19.06.
Focus Within
Blind Flow

Wednesday 21.06.
Embrace Yourself
3-Breath-Flow

Thursday 22.06.
Open Theme
Yogis Choice

Friday 23.06.
“Oiling” the Joints
Adding-on-Flow

I am happy to have you by my side as I continue my journey!

Love,

Nicole

My dear Yogis and Yoginis,

Here are some more fundamental laws of the body worth to have a look at.

Pressure
We see the body as a bio-hydraulic system that balances internal and external pressure. At sea level, the average person has 14.7 lb pounds of pressure per square inch acting on their body. That means that the body has to generate enough internal pressure so it doesn’t collapse but not too much pressure so it explodes.

When we fly in an airplane and increase elevation, the atmospheric pressure drops, and our ears pop! That’s because there was more internal pressure in the body than external pressure acting on it. When we dive into the ocean there is a limit to how deep we can go before the outside water pressure crushes the body.

Through this understanding of pressure and its impact on the body, we began to look at things a new way. Instead of viewing the body as bio-mechanical, we investigated the way air and fluid moves through it. As blood rushes through a muscle sheath and swirls it expands the muscle, stimulates and stabilizes movement. Thus, making the human body a bio-hydraulic system. That means instead of stretching in one or two dimensions, we can use air, fluid, and pressure distribution techniques to expand and relax compressed areas of the body.

Electromagnetic
The human body has 50 trillion intelligent cells that band together and march to the commands of the mind creating our central nervous system. Every thought, emotion, sound, and stimulus creates a vibration that goes through the nervous system and is interpreted through the unconscious and conscious mind.

Each cell has a negative charge inside and a positive charge outside, averaging 1.4 volts of electricity. With 50 trillion cells, that means the human body generates 70 trillion volts.New discoveries in science have led to the conclusion that we are not solid structures but rather energy waves interacting with other energy waves. This helps us understand how without any physical signals a mother knows exactly what her child needs or how a dog knows their owner is on their way home the moment they set the intention. This supports our belief that the body is an intelligent supercomputer that receives and transmits signals. However, when dehydrated, injured, compressed or dysfunctional some signals are not able to reach the central nervous system or be interpreted at all. That’s why some people can’t smell, see or feel at the same level as others. We’ve found through the fascial maneuvers, hydration, and proper supplementation we can increase awareness and interpretation of these signals.
~ Human Garage

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Next week I am finishing my 28Day reset. It has been an amazing journey of reflecting and listening to the body.
This are the main take aways from the last week so far.
Mentally: More clarity – calmer mind. I find my brain looking for new words, moving away from habitual word and sentence patterns.
Emotionally: Haven’t felt such stability in my overall mood in years. Able to make better choices for myself and not according to other peoples wants and needs – without guilt! 🙂 Feel passion for things again and that it will lead me to changes in my life.
Physically: My body is still searching for its new alignment, little aches and pains from present and past appear here and there. My jaw is less tense. My knee is getting better and the cyst smaller. My skin is getting smoother and softer.
My vision starts to become brighter.

Monday 12.06.
Hands & Feet to Pelvis
Flow

Wednesday 14.06.
Sensing the Space
Slow Flow

Thursday 15.06.
Open Theme
Yogis Choice

Friday 16.06.
Moving from the Heart
Flow

I am so grateful that I can share parts of my journey with you, thanks to your loving kindness and openness,

Love,

Nicole