Movement & Psychology Workshop

Emotional Emotions: Adapt stress response. Conscious movement

Our ‘guides’ for identifying functional movement come from three main sources: scientific research on human evolution, developmental research on how babies have to organise their movements to eventually rise up on to two feet and walk, and ethnographic material that looks at movement from an anthropological perspective across different cultures.

Just as it takes alignment for someone to concentrate and act with intention, it requires alignment for a “movement” to move. Importantly, this is not a top-down formation, but rather a mutual agreement among individuals who pay intense attention to the same things and to each other.

Shift moves can be put into two categories. Shift moves that change our blood and body chemistry and shift moves that change our consciousness. When we are triggered or reactive our blood chemistry changes. The fight flight chemical cocktail courses through our veins and the body assumes reactive postures.

Truly authentic movement is unbelievable, shocking, and surprising.

The deep human body wants to connect to habitat, tribe, and culture. Relationship is food.