Move Your DNA: Restore Your Health Through Natural Movement

This Rhomboid Pushup is often mistaken for a cat-cow yoga pose, but in the Rhomboid Pushup there is not a change in the curve of the spine. You

The gross curve of your spine is created by the position of the vertebrae relative to each other. In the case of hyperkyphosis, the vertebrae can be rotated or slightly sheared forward, which means that these are the motions necessary to UNkyphosis (image bottom left). Lifting the chest is simply displacing the entire curve relative to the ground.

Sarcomeres pretty much have one way of organizing themselves, so if you, through your habits, change the average (read: most frequented) distance between muscle attachment points, your body will grow (in a process called sarcomerogenesis) or cannibalize (in a process called sarcomerolysis) individual sarcomeres in the effort to return the remaining

the process is more like this: Relax some of your mask (drop your ribs and relax your shoulders when you remember). Do a little corrective work to change the mechanics of the shoulder. Relax the mask some more. Do a little more work. Slowly toggling between these two will gradually reshape your body.

While perhaps accurate in certain situations (like standing, for an hour, holding your tuba, in a marching band), chronic knee flexion is not optimal for the human knee. But knee flexion doesn’t only shorten the calf muscles, it shortens the muscles on the back of the thigh as well. Over time, this shortness can pull the pelvis into a posterior til

Generally, injury and therapy researchers miss (or at least fail to mention in their research) that level walking, performed at the frequency (or lack thereof) with which we have done it, is in itself a cause of injury. When we’re seeking therapeutic solutions to chronic issues of the foot, ankle, knee, hips, and pelvis, we mustn’t ignore the well-

Now, with your ribs down and the medial border of your scapula flush, take a look at your spine in a mirror. This is the curve of your thoracic spine. This curve is not altered by bringing your shoulder blades together, nor is it altered by lifting your chest. This curve is always shaped as it is right now. And it probably needs to be reduced, whic

The painted spot changes the way the shirt experiences the loads. A gentle tug on the shirt causes the areas surrounding the dried paint stretch easily as they did before, but the area stiffened with the paint behaves differently. The same pull that used to deform the shirt down and inward now creates little (if any) distortion over the sticky area

A rainbow of joint angles assists in creating the ranges of loads you’d experience if you were interacting with nature. When you begin rainbow loading, remember to drop back on the intensity and frequency of your correctives.