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.
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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