In this article, we are going to go a little sci-fi and talk about an alternate reality. In this alternate reality, the training of movement is actually unknowingly the training of anti- movement. The health and fitness industry inhabits this alternate reality on a regular basis, through all sorts of interesting but not quite accurate […]
Author: Joanne Elphinston
Joanne Elphinston. A Performance Consultant, international lecturer, physiotherapist and former coach, Joanne has spent over twenty years immersed in the fascinating phenomenon that is movement. Drawing from the fields of biomechanics, motor learning, neuroscience, philosophy and psychology, Joanne’s passion for exploring and stimulating beautiful movement in her clientele has led her from her native Australia to the USA, UK and Sweden, working with an extraordinary range of people, from children to the elderly through to high performance athletes. Website:http://www.jemsmovement.com; Book: Amazon
The Dark Side of Scapular Positioning Cues
The scapular region can be a particularly challenging area to work with. It must be simultaneously stable and mobile, a tricky balance to strike when so many people have very little sense of connection to this area. A very specific biomechanical misunderstanding about function in this area has led to the use of a cue […]
A Little Less Trying: Notes on Language in Client Interaction
No matter how many times he has seen it before, my husband will sit glued to a Star Wars re-run on television, completely and blissfully absorbed. Cup of tea in hand, I joined him on the sofa at a pivotal moment in young Luke Skywalker’s journey towards becoming a Jedi knight. When given the task […]