It’s 2011, I’m 29 years old, fit, healthy and obsessed with sports. I’m strong. I’m in the prime of my life and don’t know much about physical suffering. Then after a long day of studying together, in a flurry of excitement and joy I lift my colleague up in the […]
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Many lines of work these days require us to sit for long periods of time, something which our bodies are just not cut out for. Sitting without doing anything to counteract the negative effects on your posture, musculature and fascia can be genuinely bad for your health. Rolfers see the […]
Have you ever wondered why it is that we sometimes get tense and stressed despite knowing that there is absolutely no reason for it? Why is it that occasionally even in a rare instance of British summer and Friday afternoon we still feel uneasy and not exactly living the beauty […]
Last week I went on one of Luke’s Centaur workshops. It was very different to what I expected – actually I had no idea what to expect – and when Luke asked if I could write about my impressions, I was happy to. A small group of us got barefoot […]
Two weeks ago I finally got the courage to launch this quirky project called the Centaur. The idea came from a long-inhibited desire to create a group space where we could investigate the impact of the body on communication and where the knowledge coming from Rolfing, Anthropology, Psychology and many […]
If you search for “improve your posture” and look at the top results, you are going to get a lot of images of bracing harnesses promising to get you sorted for under £5. The sad and ironic news about it is that strapping yourself with ropes will not only not […]
Good postural alignment is a universally desired state. Regardless of time and place we always wanted to and continue wanting to look poised and graceful with our body in perfect alignment. In our aesthetic judgements of ourselves and others we instinctively know that the most honest statement of human vitality […]
Who is in charge here? Let’s talk about how your nervous system deals with the fear of public speaking and what to do about it. In the last blog article I wrote about why is it that most of us are afraid of public speaking. We looked at our ancestry, […]
Let’s face it, speaking in front of a large, or even small, group of strangers is a terrifying thing. Some people would even prefer death to a major public speaking gig. So what is it that makes us dread public speaking and what can we do to overcome that fear […]