It’s funny how one study can make headline news while countless others collect digital dust in academic archives. Case in point: "Standing desks are bad for your health"..
read more ...I used to think the more new techniques I could learn, the more I would be able to help those clients with more persistent pain. But I think less about my own techniques and more about...
read more ...It’s very rare for me to mention Feldenkrais in the UK and for someone to reply that they had heard of it. I'd never heard of it either, until a few years ago, a pain specialist recommended that I see a Feldenkrais practitioner. It was to become the start of a new pain management and movement journey for me, and if it had been 20 years earlier, I probably would’ve trained to be a Feldenkrais practitioner!
read more ...Pilates is a form of exercise that is often compared to yoga. There are some similarities; there is a focus on the breathing and form. However, they are also very different. Pilates movements are generally continuous, with an emphasis on core stability, strength and flexibility, rather than holding a series of poses that have been done for thousands of years. There are also two different types of Pilates classes, equipment-based classes in a studio rather like a gym, and matwork classes, which looks more like a yoga class.
read more ...We all know that sitting for long periods of the day is bad for your general health. Maybe you’ve thought it’s because your heart and circulatory system are not getting a good work out and it makes you feel sluggish. Or maybe sitting for long periods hurts your back and gives you a sore neck and shoulders. But there could be more bad news for sitting for extended periods. I recently read a study (UCLA 2018*) that looked into sitting and the thinning of a part of the brain which forms new memories.
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