Core Practice 2 | Functional Synergy

Core Awareness Practice

Try this 4-minute practice and see what you become aware of

This shows a process for you to explore your abdomen post partum – this was part of my process more than 7 years ago that has relevance today.

Video 1 has me feeling my abdomen and mid line of my body, and how how I can feel my muscular response with my fingers.

Video 2 is my adding isometric hip flexion with my hand against my knee, it is a close up of my abdominal response, again I am feeling with my fingers.

Video 3 is my being ready to move into flexion and how I decided it was time. This was about 9 months post twin birth.

If you or your client is early in their post-pregnancy recovery, or have small remnants of diastasis present, even years after pregnancy these are exploratory exercises for you to reconnect, retrain and rebuild.

There's more to the core than you think

When the core is working optimally it:

Enables better motor control and coordination. It is like the orchestra of all of our parts is moving and working together more smoothly.
Facilitates adaptability which can help us to move from fast to slow, slow to fast and to quickly change directions.
Enables variability in movement, to have more than one movement strategy.
Helps us be agile. To be nimble in how we change position and direction.
easier shoulders
more effective quad engagement
faster recovery from total hip and knee surgery

Good core stability means we don’t have to use breath-holding or other bracing patterns to keep us together. We can settle into ourselves.

We know where our body is in space (proprioception). We can sense effort, force, equilibrium and balance.

Pause the thinking that your core is your abdomen – and look at what your core actually DOES.

Join me for Power of Pure Movement: Building a Responsive, Agile & Nimble Core and connect with your body and experience how much more steady and stable you feel through all of your being.

What you will learn

The multidimensional impact of your core.
The relationship of your breath to an optimized core.
What the evidence reveals about the core and core training.
The misconception of "good core" and "good core exercises."
A key secret to understanding your core.

The misconception of "I have good core, it’s my back that is the problem", and why back pain is a clear sign of a sub-optimal core.
The reality of effective core exercises: How to optimally train your core for the activities you love.
“Cueing” the core: Tips and tricks to help you and your students "get the core" and kinesthetically feel their way to building embodied core stability.

Core training really took on new meaning after helping my husband through Post Traumatic Stress and Hypervigilance as a Fire Fighter. Even though I knew the multilayered approach to healing, my own experience supporting him gave me a totally new understanding of how vital a responsive core is to be calmer, easeful and quietly alert (not wired alert).

This training blends all that I teach from a body-based perspective, and yet we experience it weaving through our whole system – body, brain, breath and being.

Power of Pure Movement: Building a Responsive, Agile & Nimble Core

– LIVE ONLINE PROGRAM –

September 10

2 hours of live video training that focus on the anatomy and mechanics of the core, movement practices and demonstration.
Opportunity to get your questions answered live
Exclusive access to the private Functional Synergy community group
Unlimited, ongoing access to full program & recordings

USD$97.00

Core Awareness Practice

There's more to the core than you think

Join me for Power of Pure Movement: Building a Responsive, Agile & Nimble Core and connect with your body and experience how much more steady and stable you feel through all of your being.

What you will learn

Power of Pure Movement: Building a Responsive, Agile & Nimble Core

The Mind-Body Connection