Questions:
[toggle title=”Maren … Why are cramps so good for you to try to work through?”]Jeff … Peacefully doing the cramp dance, leads to re-organization of the nervous system. They’re a sign of the body going into new territory.[/toggle]
[toggle title=”Joe… Sometimes when he has legs against the wall, especially when spreading them apart, he gets uncontrollable shakes in his hips and legs. Is it good to work through them just as with cramps?”]Jeff… Flexible people like Joe can often go deep in a shape but shouldn’t, always. If he is able to pull back and work in that shaking space, then re-organizing the nervous system is again going on and in six months maybe he won’t shake!
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[toggle title=”Lisa … When we do legs up the wall and then you cue us to pull knee into hip, you don’t always say “keep your heel in line with the knee”, but I try to do that all the time, is this right?”]Jeff… I don’t want to make it a rule, there are no rules in Avita! But if Lisa feels that doing that alignment helps work the hip, then that is the target of the shape.[/toggle]
[toggle title=”Julia… I work with brains, and they like ‘regulation’, deregulation is an unhealthy state. So what do you mean when you describe the body as being ‘disorganized’?”]Jeff… Athletic, flexible people like dancers and gymnasts and yogis have disorganized bodies that need new integration which Avita, by working with the joints and unifying the mind and body, can help alleviate or rectify.[/toggle]
[toggle title=”Maren… She has the tendency to flex her feet when in legs up the wall because it activates her knees and helps in keeping her legs straight. Is this correct?”]Jeff … We don’t always cue those things to allow YOU into the practice. If it’s a habit you learned from vinyasa or ashtanga then it works for you as a reference. What would you want to be, more supple or more flexible? I like supple better it suggests a freedom to do all the everyday things we need to do, not going overboard to try to be as flexible as possible.[/toggle]
[toggle title=”Mark… What is the situation with COVID, will we still be able to go into the studio?”]Jeff … There is a new level of lockdown coming on Friday but it looks like we will still be able to have the studio open.[/toggle]