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Speaker: Welcome everybody to another episode of the Beyond Terrain podcast. I am your host, Leo Dalton. If you're new around here, consider following the show or subscribing. And if you enjoy the show, leaving a review or a comment helps immensely. Best way to support the show, obviously, is by sharing your voice matters and spreading these ideas.
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Speaker: um I've been following... ah her work for quite a long time now. i love her approach, her philosophy, um just how she explains things. So I'm really, really eager to kind of delve a little deeper today, hear a little bit more from her. So we have a great guest on today, Lisa Rose. Thank you so much for coming on.
Speaker: Yeah, thanks for inviting me, Leav. It's been a, yes it's been a long time coming. I apologize. I've postponed for so long, but I'm really, really honored to be on the podcast among so many wonderful guests that you have on this show. So thank you so much for having me. Yeah, yeah. Well, we made it. We're here now. We're recording. So that's what that's what matters.
Speaker: um I do want to start with our introductory question. I'd love for you to define health. What does it mean to you? What does it look like? How does it manifest? Take it any direction that you'd like. Oh, for me, health was really about aligning with what I believe to be God's design. I am a ah ah believer. i i am a, I think first and foremost, consider myself a devotee of of God, our creator, i think we have a maker.
Speaker: um i did not always hold that that perspective. That was something that came later in life, probably after just going through a lot of direct experiences where it seemed undeniable. And interestingly, my study of movement has made me all the more certain that that is the case.
Speaker: that we have a creator. There's a beautiful design. And I think health comes from aligning ourselves with what that blueprint, what that design is. And in our modern culture, of course, we've really lost our way in and a lot of respects in terms of understanding what that design is. And the more that we're able to ah restore the the patterns ah that we see in nature and restore, again, the...
Speaker: again the the design intended for us in this world, in this world and this life, then that creates what we see as as health, thriving, happy, physically, mentally, spiritually ah thriving and abundant.
Speaker: What a beautiful way to start things off here. i really appreciate that answer. right couldn't agree more. You know, sometimes I like to reduce um health and disease and and kind of say that disease is the distance from the creator.
Speaker: You know, that's how I really reduce it when it comes to health. you know, studying the the terrain perspective on everything, right? Like what actually causes disease? It's all these synthetic things. It's things, it's even natural things out of balance, right? Consuming too much of, you know, something that an excess of something, right? All these things are what causes disease and it it all can be summed up by a distance from the creator, from what is real, what is natural, what is true.
Speaker: So I really, that really resonates with me. And You know, i can i can agree that that that's not something that's always kind of been in my life, right? It's something that's developed and something that I had to kind of find and search for.
Speaker: and you know, I feel like in some ways it kind of found me, right? Like it kind of, It kind of comes to you, right, by spending this time reflecting contemplation and nature, different things like that. So, you know, it's it's such a beautiful journey that we're on. And I just really appreciate that perspective.
Speaker: I'm really curious. You mentioned movement helping you find this, you know, deeper connection with with the creator, with with nature and and and the truth in general. I'm really, really that That just is beautiful. I'd love to hear more about that. and Maybe obviously tie it into our discussion today.
Speaker: yeah absolutely. You said so many beautiful things that I, i pardon of me, just wants to like respond to so much that what you shared as well. just But it it definitely seems like we're on a very ah ah resonant perspective, you know, really thinking along the same lines. And um it's interesting. I always go to this, ah the analogy of an archery. when we When we miss the mark, it's called, it's a sin.
Speaker: um So this idea, this concept of sin has been and kind of re-contextualized in my life because really it's, sin is really just how are we straying from but design? How are we straying from ah patterns and and the and the creation and from nature?
Speaker: and and not Not to say that i equate God with nature necessarily, but I think it within nature we see the the fingerprint of God, the the the pattern of God. and um And so, and I also just love that it you said it came to you and through the observation. And I think that's one of the beautiful things also about the design of our creation is that through the observation, simply through a genuine and earnest interaction and observation of the creation around us, it is it becomes self-evident.
Speaker: there's a, there's an educational process that is innate within the experience of creation. If we take away all the layers of illusion and distraction and toxicity and artificiality, that's been superimposed upon it.
Speaker: So, yeah. Well, well put, well put once again. Yeah, that's great. Yeah. And I mean like that, that connection piece, like, like searching for it in a way, right. It's not, it's like,
Speaker: that always confused me when I first kind of got into this way of thinking as well, because it like, how do I start searching for it? And it wasn't about searching necessarily. It was about making myself open to it.
Speaker: You know, and I find that that is sort of this underlying theme of, um, you know, even what they talk about with like manifestation, you're not like, you know, I'm trying to manifest this. Like I need to, I need to do this. Like, you just got to be open to, to what's right and what's best. And that's, you know, that's the faith piece too. Right. So it's kind of just like, it it was confusing for me initially and now it, it seems so clear. And, um, but just that change of perspective is huge. So yeah, I love it. I love it. That's great. And obviously,
Speaker: um you know, you mentioned sort of the fingerprint of the creator. And I think that's, that's, ah you know, tying it into even our movement patterns and and the beauty and the aesthetic of how we move, how we interact with nature, um because that's, you know, that's what kind of sets us apart, right? From the plant world, at least, you know, we move, we move and not that plants don't, don't move, but we move in a much different way. Right. And we have this, this sacred, you know, these sacred patterns that are all,
Speaker: that are that are within our design and um you know ah i've noticed because i you know i i've spent a lot of time as kind of like a gym rat when i was in in school like high school and even started a university and stuff and you know in a way not that the gym is inherently bad or going to the gym is bad but just the movement patterns that i were i was doing was not in alignment with my own natural alignment alignment you know, it wasn't aligned with with with nature with nature's movement patterns, you know, even the shoes that I was wearing. Now I train and like, I try to train barefoot, but it's obviously really cold here. So I do wear some barefoot shoes and stuff, right? And that's really helped my my movement patterns. And it's just getting back to more natural principles, allowing that opening myself up to, to these natural movement patterns and manifest, I think we're going to take a look at
Speaker: my movement patterns today and kind of see a little bit of progress. Yeah. We're going to look at them in slow motion too. So we're going to get a real good look at them and have some freeze, freeze frames. um We won't, ah I mean, we could spend this entire podcast, honestly, dissecting the video you sent me and explaining, you know, tiny little things. Well, I'll just give you a really, really brief,
Speaker: ah summary of some of the main things that I saw in your gait pattern. um and But all'll I'll open it up by explaining a little bit about Just natural movement in general, what are we what are we even talking about when we say natural movement? If i say that there's a pattern that i you know believe in that that our creator has for us, what does that even look like?
Speaker: um Why has it changed? I'll discuss some of those um some of those ideas. And amazing yeah, because that's my that is my current wheelhouse, even though i have a I have a lot of different interests and a very weird and varied background.
Speaker: So but this is kind of where I've arrived at most recently in terms of my ah winding, very circuitous, bizarre career path. So well, let's get into it. um I'd love to hear more about this. um kind of really being able to visualize it as well. So for the podcast listeners, you might want to hop over to YouTube and hit the subscribe button there and, and make sure you're catching the video here because least it's gonna have a little presentation for us. So yeah, let's, let's get into that and and hear a little bit about that. You know, what, what,
Speaker: is natural movement, you know, because that's, that's sort of a huge question. Is it doing bicep curls and, you know, squats, ah with the dumbbells or, or barbells, stuff like that.
Speaker: Unfortunately that, that didn't make it into my, the presentation, but, uh, we'll discuss some of the other things. Um, I, I'll go ahead and, uh, yeah, share screen and I'll try to,
Speaker: um I'll try to make this ah explain verbally some of the stuff that we're seeing so that if someone is just listening to the audio, um that they're able to hopefully get something out of this beyond just um me referencing videos ah visuals that they can't see.
Speaker: Okay. um Yeah, the biomechanical blueprint. I like i really like drawing on architectural analogies because there's so much that is analogous in our in our physical bodies with architecture.
Speaker: um I love the the concept, the metaphor of the body as a temple. I think that is really, really accurate and probably has a lot more meaning than most people realize. um And that we do have a natural design and and that we are um we are wonderfully made.
Speaker: ah We are beautifully made. And the more we understand how everything operates and how everything is connected, um that's a point that I will probably be emphasizing ad nauseum throughout the day.
Speaker: presentation because everything is truly connected. So that's in some ways, that's how we can discuss movement, but it also touches on areas of spirituality and, and you know, just because everything in our body is connected and our body ultimately is a microcosmic reflection of the larger macrocosmic creation.
Speaker: um And that's part of what makes it so beautiful. And yeah, so okay, we'll get into it. We'll get into some of the kind of more, ah let's see, sorry, ah kind of a nitty gritty of of what it is that we're actually looking for. We're going to focus more on the physical and then we'll expand into kind of some of the more maybe esoteric and bizarre interpretations that I have.
Speaker: So we were looking at the foot and ankle first. So just like in a building, if you're doing a building inspection, you better hope that your inspector is looking at the foundation of of that structure. So really, really important that we have a nice strong foundation for the rest of the structure to rest upon.
Speaker: ah You don't want a foundation that's cracked, mushy, falling apart of because the rest of the structure is just gonna follow suit and ah have some major problems. So within our body, the foot and ankle complex, I don't like to think of them really as separate things. I really think of the foot and ankle as and as a ah connected structure um when I'm especially assessing posture and and gait in and clients and things like that.
Speaker: So one of the really important things, and this seems so simple, but having a straight foot is something that is part of our natural design that many, many people just from the get-go have strayed from already. So um we want to see a ah foot pointing straight.
Speaker: One of the systems, I draw from a lot of different systems. I do not consider myself a coach of one particular system, but one of the systems that I have trained in is called GOTA. um And they're very specific with some of their...
Speaker: and definitions of what a straight foot is. They actually define it as the second toe, the second metatarsal is pointing straight ahead. um i think, you know, roughly speaking, if your your foot is basically straight, you're you're in good shape. But what we don't want to see is like a really wide turnout, which I have some slides later that I can show you what starts to happen.
Speaker: But what this does when the foot is placed straight, when we have pressure on the outside edge of the foot and what we and we have um for those of you who are listening, there's a image of these um feet and ankles um where there is an upward angle from the outer bony landmark of the ankle leading to the inside of the ankle.
Speaker: So this is what in Gota they would call an inside ankle bone high, IABH. ah We want to see this upward angle from the outside to the inside of the of the ankle structure. Also through the foot as well. We want to have a nice high arch.
Speaker: um And again, straight foot with ah pressure along the outside edge of the foot versus collapsing to the inside. of the foot. um And this is because we have tension that spirals internally up the leg starting at the foot.
Speaker: So the foot is the base of that spiral. We need it to be nice and grounded and strong in order to create this spiraling, almost coiling type of tension um in order for the leg to operate the way it's designed to. And we'll we'll understand a little bit more about that when we get into talking about the the body in motion and looking at the gait mechanics.
Speaker: So um the reason we have, well, part of the reason we have this um internally spiraling tension throughout the leg is because we have internally spiraling direction of the tissue.
Speaker: So the Achilles itself is set at an inward spiral. So part of this um understanding the the fingerprint of God that we see in nature, that we see in movement, nature is spirals.
Speaker: I talk about this a lot on my Instagram page and and the content that I put out. because part of the brainwashing from the conventional system of kinesiology and, you know, academia and things like that has it's turned everything linear in all of the movement models and things like that. They've really like roboticized human movement.
Speaker: Um, I won't get into the whole atrocities of the Flexner Report and all of that and how, you know, the educational system was completely, you know, um hijacked. But basically, we we took what um was natural movement and then they created this whole artificial ah interpretation through dissecting cadavers and lifeless models and then extrapolating movement models from from these lifeless cadavers essentially.
Speaker: And then it's taught over and over that, oh, this is how we move. This is how we move. People no longer look with their eyes to see how things move and how things operate. um Anyway, so we have this spiraling tissue in our bodies.
Speaker: And so that's part of what creates that internally spiraling ah tension through the leg. There is directionality of tissue. So that's another really important thing to understand when looking at and movement.
Speaker: There's spiraling tissue and it has a direction and we want to respect that direction. So what starts to happen when we stray from this, when we start to deviate from the um from the directionality, we start we stop respecting it, right? we stop moving and We start moving in the opposite direction.
Speaker: This is when we start to see a collapse. So when the feet are no longer straight, they're going to be turned out, um turned out wide. This is kind of ah a compensation effort by the body. to restabilize itself.
Speaker: um The body is incredible. ah The body is extremely adaptable. But unfortunately, some of these adaptations are going to take us in a direction that will lead us towards pain and injury. and And that's what starts to happen. You can actually see. So the images that I have here are of feet that are turned out, the tissue is starting to collapse inwardly, we see a collapsed arch.
Speaker: um And this all this is all weakening the structural and integrity integrity of the foot and ankle. um What you see here is basically a collapsed foundation. If we're looking at a house, this foundation is in really, really bad shape, it's crumbling, falling apart, um it's not going to offer any kind of structural stability.
Speaker: And unfortunately, a lot of people have really messed up feet now. um And I'll get into some of the reasons why, but you brought up that, you know, you started training barefoot, try to wear barefoot shoes. That's a huge part of it.
Speaker: um I have a whole slide kind of dedicated to the point, which I'll, you know, I'll bring up again later, but anything that we do make to make our lives more comfortable, to quote unquote, help our body perform some sort of function that it's naturally designed to do, it's going to create weakness.
Speaker: Weakness is going to create disease, injury, pain, all of those things that we hopefully are trying to avoid in our lives. So, Feet turning out, collapsed arch, this is when we start to run into problems. Foundation is starting to fall apart.
Speaker: um This becomes especially ah crucial to understand when we put the body into motion because then we're we're suddenly dealing with huge amounts of force once we set the body into motion.
Speaker: um So this is ah a video of a runner. Sorry, it's ah a close-up clip from from an Instagram video. um It was actually from a very, very popular physical therapist who has a huge following on Instagram. I won't name his name, but he was basically creating this whole video warning everybody about terrible charlatan coaches like myself who warn about pronation, essentially like the inward collapse of the foot when you're running.
Speaker: And he brought up this example. This is ah an Olympic runner. And he's like, you know, this is a high level athlete. And you can see as her foot is coming down, that her foot is collapsing inwardly.
Speaker: Also, her foot isn't landing straight. She has a little bit of a turnout when she lands. And there's all this inward collapse of pressure. And so the point that this guy was trying to make was like, look, all these coaches telling you, oh, no, no, don't pronate. But look, here's an Olympic runner who pronates. It's not a big deal. it's He was, I think, kind of trying to claim that it's it's natural. It's what happens when you run.
Speaker: What he failed to mention is that, oh, this is the runner he was referencing, who was plagued by all kinds of injuries, had to withdraw from the Olympics. There's like a really sad video of her crying in an interview that she's like her career, you know, her career's ended and she's super sad.
Speaker: And so I bring this up and I include this in my presentation to make and what I think is a really important point that we can have high level performance, very high level, the highest level of performance, Olympic level performance in our bodies and not be within the natural patterns and the natural design.
Speaker: But there's a price to pay. There is going to be most likely at some point Maybe not today, and maybe not tomorrow, but some point a price to pay in the form of injury, pain, something like that.
Speaker: So i I don't. To me, that that kind of sounds like ah like an appeal to authority, right? It's like, well, look at this high level athlete.
Speaker: If they do it, it must be good and, you know, health. Oh, yeah. That seems kind of an interesting claim, you know, given the context. But, you know, that was that was kind of the point. Right. And but it's it's just not a really doesn't sound it just doesn't resonate with me as a valid way to even form the arc.
Speaker: You know, it doesn't sound logical whatsoever. So that's really interesting. I'm glad you brought that up. Yeah, thank you. And well, it happens all the time on Instagram. And with a lot of these training systems, they'll point to professional athletes and be like, look at how they move, look at how they perform. And therefore, we should model ourselves after these athletes, um which really points to i have this whole thing about, you know, i really hope that people stop worshiping it, you know, these idols of professional sports. I think it's really, um, uh, a huge problem, um, that, that our culture faces that we've, you know, created all these idols for ourselves. And, um, anyway, professional sports being one of them. And that's definitely something that I, I personally think is, you know,
Speaker: um is intentionally done to distract, especially young men from um the more important things in life and just creating this um this system that kind of sucks all of their attention and energy. And then, you know, they try to model themselves after these these athletes. Most of them are horribly injured. I mean, the number of injuries too is is starting to increase.
Speaker: and um And a lot of this has to do with the way that these athletes are training. um which I'll talk talk about a little bit, um a little further on in the presentation. But yeah, that's a great point. Total appeal to authority. Like, you know, this this high level runner, this high level athlete moves like this and therefore it must be correct without paying any attention to the injury history of these and the longevity of their career. I think that's like another really important thing to take into account. And that is one of the really good things that came out of the GOTA system.
Speaker: um they spent a lot of time looking at the movement patterns of athletes who had very long, relatively injury-free careers.
Speaker: They also looked at the indigenous. They also looked at children. um and looked at how do these people who don't have chronic back pain as they age, or, you know, children who are able to just, you know run and jump and play and have such a ah you know, huge access to their movement vocabulary, you know, um how do they move and how is it different? And then they got into the question of, well, why, why does it degrade over time? And a lot of it, a lot of it has to do with,
Speaker: the unnatural training you you described yourself as a gym rat, you know, ah unfortunately but lot of the power lifting Olympic lifting, these types of, um, uh, training modalities have been used for strength and conditioning now for, um, professional athletes.
Speaker: And there's really a very, in my opinion, an undeniable correlation with the increase of that style of training and the increase in non-contact catastrophic injury among professional athletes.
Speaker: So, yeah, so this poor runner, you know, she's pronating, Instagram physical therapists are saying it's all good and she has horrible back pain and can't compete anymore. So people have it pretty backwards.
Speaker: um So in addition to the structure of the foot placement, um ah sorry, and the foot structure, the placement in relationship to the rest of the body of where we're placing the feet is really important as well.
Speaker: um I have a little clip here of the meaning of the ah the phrase, ah the straight and narrow. So um it's described as meaning that it's the honest and morally acceptable way of living.
Speaker: He's making a real effort to get back on the straight and narrow. I think that there are, there's a lot of really interesting truths that come out of these figures of speech that we that we use.
Speaker: and they And the way they relate to our posture and our gait and how we carry ourselves through lie carry ourselves through life, both figuratively and literally. There's a lot of overlap and just really interesting synchronicity there.
Speaker: So we want to be on the straight and narrow. I think the creator designed us to be on the straight and narrow to seek the moral way to seek um the right, the acceptable way of living and um And interestingly, our body reflects that. When we have our feet placed under our center of mass, directly under, um if you're looking at someone head on, we wanna see those feet really placed.
Speaker: If I were to draw an imaginary line from the sides of my head down to the ground, I want that to intersect my feet. I don't want my feet really on a ah wide stance because that's not gonna offer me optimal support. Again, drawing from architecture and analogy, if you're setting up columns,
Speaker: in a building. You don't want to offset them and have them at some like wide, funky angle underneath the weight that they're supposed to support. You want them nice and straight and aligned right under the the weight, under the under the load.
Speaker: um So we want our feet and our legs to be operating in a similar manner. We want them nice and and and tight, really ah tight placement of the feet directly underneath those imaginary lines coming straight down from the sides of the head.
Speaker: And so we see these ah girls who are at the beach, they have good foot placement. I just have some examples of what I would consider to be really good foot placement. You can see see this um tribal woman here has wonderful posture. She's stacked like how many, like five pots on her head, right? So wonderful balance, wonderful posture. Her feet, you can see are straight.
Speaker: You can see she has that nice, in the high inside to the ankle. Yeah, nice splay, wide feet. um So these are the kinds of things that we really want to to strive for when restoring ah restoring our posture, restoring our movement, and um and restoring our restoring our bodies in general.
Speaker: Okay, so foot placement also is really important when we're in movement. So not just when we're standing still, but also when we're running, we wanna make sure that the head is in line with the foot. So if I'm looking at someone straight on and we'll we'll look at Liev's run and see, we'll check his his foot placement with his with his head alignment.
Speaker: ah We want, um ideally, at least according to Gota, we want that the same side eye to be directly over the the second toe of that same side foot when we're running and looking at that runner from immediately directly in front of them.
Speaker: um So this is, again, we're placing the foundation, the physical foundation in the best location to absorb and transfer force. And this is so important when we're running because, again, we're dealing with huge amounts of force when we start to set the body in motion. We're really absorbing a lot.
Speaker: um So we have also a loading pattern and a release pattern. So the way that we absorb force and release force is really important. And again, it plays into the directionality of our tissue.
Speaker: So because we have this inwardly spiraling tissue in our leg from the from the foot up to the hip, When we load pressure, the pressure is going to be moving in an outward direction when we absorb force, typically, because we're going from one leg to another.
Speaker: Right. So the direction is coming from one side of the body to the other, which is going to send the force away from our center line. So it's kind of an outwardly moving pressure wave or of force direction of force.
Speaker: So in order to absorb that, that outward pressure is going to be absorbed through this internally spiraling tissue. And when they meet, it's going to bring the leg outward slightly. The tissue is going to absorb that outward force and create ah this kind of bow shape.
Speaker: So here in the image that i that I'm showing, that blue line is showing the absorption of force, that outward shape to the leg, that kind of outwardly bowing shape to the leg. That's what we wanna see in natural gait mechanics.
Speaker: It means that the that the tissue is properly absorbing force in the correct direction. And again, it's that outwardly rotating force meeting the inwardly rotating tissue, creating tension.
Speaker: Our body operates on, it's it's a tensegrity model within our body. um It's not levers and pulleys. It's not just muscle creating tension. force pulling our bones, you know, like levers and our joints or pulleys.
Speaker: um it It has to do with a much more complex system of interaction between compression and tension in the body. So that makes alignment and directionality hugely important in order to properly harness the biotensegrity of the body.
Speaker: So this is our loading pattern, this outwardly bowed shape. ka Then we're gonna move into this release pattern where the leg itself is going to rotate inward as the pressure wave releases.
Speaker: okay So our loading pattern This is the release pattern. I just moved to this next slide. This is where the leg internally rotates as the pressure releases. And what we're gonna see, the the hallmarks of a correct release pattern is that the heel, well we'll notice the heel of the foot moves away from the midline of the body.
Speaker: And the knee rotates inward. So this whole leg, the whole structure, it's not like just the foot is is rotating in one direction. It's the whole leg. The whole structure of the leg is internally rotating back to...
Speaker: the direction of the tissue. So essentially you can think of it as like, this is a very, it's a massive oversimplification of what's actually happening in the leg, but just for the sake of basic understanding, if you have a coil, right, or a spring that's wound um inwardly, and I,
Speaker: rotate it away from the direction of the fiber, right? Or the direction of the coil. I'm gonna open up that spring. I'm gonna load it with some, with pressure, right? In the opposite direction. Then when I release the spring, it's gonna snap back into that initial inwardly coiling structure, right? It's gonna snap back. So that's kind of what our leg does.
Speaker: We load it out, we open up the spring and then we release, boom, and it snaps back into place. So that's part of this elasticity that that exists within our body. The conventional gait model is like so laughable when you compare it to what you actually see with your eyes.
Speaker: They're all about, you know, like swing phase and like our legs kind of swing in this linear manner and that the foot just lands, you know, goes rolls from heels through the toe and it rolls through our big toe.
Speaker: it It doesn't account for any of this spiraling, ah the spiraling mechanics that we see in an actual natural gait pattern. So again, going to play this video and oops, sorry, to go back.
Speaker: um I'm going to play this video. So you can see again, we load to the outside, it makes this bow shape and then it rotates. Not that I'm actively rotating necessarily, but the the release of the pressure allows for the leg to respond um with this snapping back of internal rotation.
Speaker: Okay, so those are some of the hallmarks. So we'll see this in action. Sorry to those who are just listening, but I'm gonna play some videos, ah because a lot of this is really important to see visually. um So hopefully you guys all subscribe to Liev's channel seek and so you can check it out, check out these visuals.
Speaker: um But you can see here, there's good rotation, there's spiraling motion. Her upper body um is rotating. There's a counter rotation that happens through the torso, the leg lands, there's an outward loading of the leg, and then the leg internally rotates.
Speaker: as she releases that pressure. um Then there's also going to be from the rear view that we're going to get a really good look in slow motion of the heel as it lifts off the ground, as her foot lifts off the ground, the heel is snapping away from the body and you can see her whole leg is internally rotating as it releases.
Speaker: um I would say that most people that I see run do not operate with these mechanics, unfortunately. There's been a reversal of these mechanics.
Speaker: um So part of ah part of the reason why we talked about is just you know the wrong shoes, we have these comfortable lifestyles. um I'm gonna again show another video here. This is a child running in slow motion and you can see again really clearly this internal rotation of the leg as it releases.
Speaker: and the outward kind of bow, nice bow shape as she runs, and her torso also rotating um as she runs here. So that's another just good visual to see what are the mechanics that we're actually looking for when we see a natural run.
Speaker: um Now I'm going to show you what an unnatural run looks like. This is when the gait mechanics get reversed, which unfortunately for most people is the case, um ah at least to some extent. Very, very few people a perfectly preserved natural gait mechanics past a certain age. I would say a lot of kids, actually most kids that I see have the natural gait mechanics and then over time as they grow older, the the pattern gets degraded.
Speaker: um So here is an example. I don't even know where this is from. This is just some poor lady on Instagram that I screen captured. um ah because the run was so so backwards.
Speaker: Her mechanics are so backwards. I'm gonna just really um kind of go back in slow motion and wanna show you. So notice as her foot comes up off the ground, her heel, instead of going away, her heel is pointing inward and her knee is opening out.
Speaker: So she is sending pressure um and force away from the direction that she's moving. So she's moving in one direction and her leg, you know, half her, like a huge portion of her body is moving against the direction of her overall movement.
Speaker: So what this creates is a ah shearing effect on the connective tissue. um It's going to compress joints. It's going to do all kinds of things that we don't want to see happening in the body.
Speaker: um So again, I'm just let this play, but you can see the heels kind of come up and in. And it looks weird too. Like if you look at it, it just looks funky. It kind of doesn't have that beautiful um natural smoothness that that you see in the in the natural gate pattern where it just everything flows together.
Speaker: This is disorganized. It's disjointed. The movement, the energy is not moving in harmony. Things are not aligned. They're not synchronized. um It's it's all over the place. It looks really inefficient as well. Yes, absolutely. Hugely inefficient.
Speaker: um You're not going to you're not going to see a lot of. um Yeah, you're not gonna see a lot of really high performing athletes have a gait pattern this disorganized.
Speaker: it But what's interesting too is that you know there's a lot of pro athletes who amazingly don't have the most efficient gait mechanics um And yet they're still so high performing, you you start to think, wow, they're they're they're leaving so much performance on the table. Like if they actually went in and restored their their proper gait mechanics, what could their performance be like then? It'd be, you know, really mind blowing, I think. ah and And for that reason, actually, there are a lot of professional athletes who have started gaining an interest in in biomechanics and and working with
Speaker: you know, some of these like go to coaches and things like that. um And that's actually one of the main demographics that they go to does target, they really try to work with more pro athletes versus, you know, general population, at least that was my experience when I was when I was working with them.
Speaker: You know, and it has to be compensated by the technology of our shoes a little bit too, right? Like the reason why they can perform on that level, like obviously, this video, like she's barefoot, right? So there's no compensation, but maybe throw a pair of running shoes and it becomes a little bit more efficient. And you put those Nike shoes with the fiberglass in it. And all of a sudden you're, you're running a lot better. So stuff like that too. Right. Yeah. Yeah. I think so. But then it becomes a ticking time bomb, right? Because it's only going to be able to to compensate for so much for so long. And then it's just going to catch up with you because, because the body will continue to degrade and sometimes it'll even accelerate the, you know, the degradation of, of the, of the body. Yeah.
Speaker: by using well it sounds like you're still going against the grain too right so you mentioned like the the connective tissue in it like literally like if when it's going against it you said what did you say you the shed the shearing so shearing sharing yeah because it's tearing in opposite directions exactly yeah yeah so it's just bound to you can compensate all you want but if if you're going against nature, right? That's, it's always going to lead to to problems. So that's amazing.
Speaker: Absolutely. Yeah. Okay. So we've, so we've had enough of this poor lady. Okay. So and part of the reason why these gate mechanics go wonky on us is because of changes in our posture, in our posture, our postural alignment starts to, starts to change.
Speaker: um And there's a lot of reasons for, for the posture alignment to change. A huge one is just the sedentary nature of our current, you know, Western culture. um So a lot of people just sitting in chairs, wearing the big cushy shoes, um having a lot of different comforts.
Speaker: ah And so what this does is it shifts the postural alignment. So here in this image, We have a a postural alignment that's designed for forward movement.
Speaker: It's under the word drive, right? um And then we have postural alignment that's really optimized for moving in reverse. So moving backwards. And this is all determined by where where is the placement of the rib cage and pelvis in relationship to one another.
Speaker: So when the pelvis is sitting behind our rib cage, that's gonna allow for us to optimize forward movement. When the when the pelvis starts to move forward of the rib cage, we run into a lot of problems trying to move forward from that alignment because that positioning is optimized for reverse movement.
Speaker: So essentially we're trying to move forward in a reverse alignment. And so naturally that's going to cause all kinds of problems because we're moving against the design. That's not how we're designed to move forward.
Speaker: um So ah when we put this into motion, oh, sorry. So I have another visual example here of a backward posture versus a forward posture is what I call it.
Speaker: Gota calls it front chain dominant, back chain dominant. I've kind of abandoned all of those You know, all of that vocabulary to just try and use terminology that that's obvious to more people.
Speaker: um So we we have a backward alignment, forward alignment. um And you can see this model standing with her hips pressed. forward but almost in an exaggerated way. And yet so many women stand like this, like it's an epidemic almost. I just see, see i look around and I see all of these people just standing with their pelvis pressed forward. You don't really see that many people who have a default, uh, forward, forward aligned posture anymore.
Speaker: Um, this woman in in the photograph does. She's a, she's a, she's a i don't know if she's a pro athlete or she's a ah Olympic athlete. I can't remember, but um she is a, she's a, she's a runner, I believe.
Speaker: um Anyway, but she's, she's not someone who spends all day sitting in a chair. She probably doesn't spend a whole lot of time wearing high heel shoes. I think high heel shoes are one of the most awful, horrible inventions meant for it to, you know, destroy humanity, destroy women in particular.
Speaker: um They're just really, really, really bad for you. um ah Because they do ah tend to contribute to these, these ah ah toxic, you could almost call them toxic postural alignments.
Speaker: Okay, so we we're just going to revisit this really quickly and see a side-by-side comparison. Forward running, that forward posture in motion with the backward posture in motion.
Speaker: So that woman running on the beach with the inverted gait mechanics, she is most likely, whoops, sorry, she is most likely operating from a reverse postural alignment. I can almost guarantee it because what starts to happen when the pelvis moves forward of the rib cage is that it actually starts to force the femoral head, the the top of the femur where it inserts into your hip, hip joint, it starts to force it into this, um, ah external rotation.
Speaker: So it's almost like when we have that postural alignment, the body literally physically doesn't have the room or the space anymore to operate,
Speaker: and correctly to operate within the natural pattern. So it has to choose the only avenue open to it. it it has to send the force somewhere. So it's going to use the path that it has available to it, which is sending the force away from the direction of movement.
Speaker: So again, really problematic that we're we're seeing so much postural misalignment that actually prevents us from accessing our natural movement mechanics.
Speaker: um Another thing that's really problematic with the postural alignment um that we're seeing nowadays is the way it interferes with breath. So breath is obviously a very important function that our body carries out.
Speaker: I don't know if I can overstate the importance of breath. ah Breath is the bridge between our mind and body, ah the breath of life, right? Life came into us, you know, if we want to ah draw from breath,
Speaker: from the Bible, you know, it's through the nose, the breath, you know, through our nostrils, this breath of life came into us. And that's what animates us. um And posture in a lot of ways, the way I've come to define posture is that it is a dynamic physical strategy to optimize our breathing, our body,
Speaker: places breathing at at the top of the list of priorities, you know, of things that it needs to maintain. So if our body starts to change in such a way that it starts to impair our breathing, our body is going to adapt posturally.
Speaker: And a lot of times, unfortunately, maladapt in order to restore our airway as best it can. So it's going to strategize. How do I get, how do I get the airway?
Speaker: You know, how do I get better breathing? air to come into the body. um So part of this, as the hips, as the pelvis moves forward, a big strategy of the of the body is going to be, or the nervous system essentially, is going to be opening up the rib cage and flaring it out to create some more space ah for for the ah movement of the lungs, for the diaphragm to diss descend.
Speaker: And this is what's gonna create what we know as rib flare. So you can see in this image here, the woman is kind of showing the difference between a neutral rib cage where you know there's this horizontal line, if we draw a line kind of almost through like the bra line here,
Speaker: Versus a rib cage that's flared upwards, this rib flare, where there's now an upwardly ascending line from the back through the front um that that's opening up the rib cage. And this is really a huge problem.
Speaker: And I dealt with rib flare and I didn't know it. And I was a movement coach and it took a long time and going through various systems and learning what was going on and how important it is not only to pay attention to the feet, not only to pay attention to the relative position of pelvis and rib cage, but what is the angle of the rib cage as well?
Speaker: Because what's going to happen here is that as the rib rib cage flares open to the front, we're also most likely going to see a compensation in the pelvis of excessive Anterior tilt. So the pelvis is going to start to really kind of tilt forward as well to open again. This is a strategy that the nervous system is coming up with to kind of optimize our breathing as our posture begins to degrade. And this is causing a misalignment of the diaphragm and the pelvic floor.
Speaker: So the pressure of every breath we're taking, instead of creating this necessary movement of our internal organs, kind of massaging everything, um there's a wonderful design within our bodies of of the body.
Speaker: the descent of the diaphragm and the pelvic floor and the way they kind of dance together with every breath that we take. This gets totally disrupted, starts to impair proper ah fluid flow ah through the organs.
Speaker: um It's going to weaken your pelvic floor and compress your lower back, ah compress the back of the rib cage. all There's like this whole cascade of negative effects that will also start to to happen because of this. And some of them are completely internal that we can't even see with with our eyes.
Speaker: And what interestingly, this position with rib flare, the pelvis pushing forward, this is something that is very, very common in women ah when they carry the bait, when they when they're pregnant and and carry their child. And this is something that I am still in the process of correcting within my own posture, because even though I knew all of this stuff going into my pregnancy with my daughter,
Speaker: um nature takes over and you you start to your body just starts to change and there's all of this ah weight that you're carrying in the front. And so to compensate for that, the pelvis moves forward to try to to try to stabilize everything um in this image. I have an image here on the screen showing how, you know, she doesn't have perfect posture to begin with.
Speaker: However, you can see that after she's gone through pregnancy and had her baby, her pelvis has shifted forward dramatically. Also, she's carrying her baby in front.
Speaker: And a lot of women do. a lot of women, and I do too, you know, um I try to carry on my back to to compensate and back carry a lot, which a lot of indigenous cultures do. But by carrying in the front a lot, we also contribute to this pattern of sending the hips forward to try to brace the body and and hold that, hold that extra And, um,
Speaker: and This is creating, of course, tons of compression on the spine. a lot of women post baby have all kinds of issues, pelvic floor dysfunction, diastasis recti, all of these things going on, back pain, constant back pain.
Speaker: And a lot of it has to do with these postural changes that happen. And they can absolutely be reversed, but it just takes it just takes some time and some know-how and and cultivating more postural awareness and recognizing that how we carry ourselves is important and so we need to factor that in.
Speaker: So like I was saying, when we have a misaligned diaphragm and pelvic floor, um I've moved to this slide here that's kind of showing what happens internally with the diaphragm and the pelvic floor, the pressure normally when we have a diaphragm that's aligned with our pelvic floor, the pressure moves down.
Speaker: right The pressure moves down into the pelvic floor. When we have rib flare and an excessive anterior pelvic tilt, that's gonna push all that pressure that's designed to go down.
Speaker: It starts to push it all forward. So I think that's also another reason why you know that whole term like mom pooch and like the mom belly and diastasis recti also where we have the separation of the abdominal wall.
Speaker: um A lot of these are becoming way, way more common. um in women. And I think, again, a lot of it has to do with this postural misalignment that we're starting to see.
Speaker: um And it becomes very, very difficult to heal a separation of the abdominal wall if there's kind of every breath you're taking is sending pressure forward, um pushing essentially against the back of that abdominal wall, preventing it from coming together and healing.
Speaker: um So I touched on this earlier um when we were talking that comfortable living is a huge issue that is part of this misalignment that we're seeing in the posture, in the gait mechanics, in the structure of the body, the collapsed feet, all of that stuff.
Speaker: um So I put one of my memes here. i like communicating my ideas in memes. ah But you know we have this idea, this problem of flat feet and people try to use orthotics.
Speaker: to fix their flat feet. And all they're doing is further weakening the structure of of the foot. And interestingly to a lot of orthotics, when you think about the the pressure dynamics of a dome or or an arch,
Speaker: If you push upwards, that's how you destabilize an arch is by pushing upwards on it. That actually is going to cause an arch to collapse. If you push up on that keystone in the center of an arch, that's actually going to collapse the structure.
Speaker: So you're taking orthotics essentially pushing up on that structure destabilizing it arches and domes they need that downward pressure and arch is strongest when there's that proper downward pressure on it so again it's all this inverted totally inverted backwards thinking that's making the problem worse instead of actually fixing it um but this can be said about anything that we're trying to do to help improve or make make our life lives more comfortable.
Speaker: ah Air conditioning is going to impair, but and heat and excessive heating to a certain degree is going to impair our body's ability to regulate its own temperature. If we're constantly keeping ourselves at a comfortable 72 degrees with all of this you know climate control, we're gonna weaken our system dramatically.
Speaker: um And that can lead to all kinds of problems, right? ah I was just reading yeah this book about ah the raw milk diet. And like one of the things that the doctor really emphasized was like this huge problem. This was in the early 1900s of them over prescribing laxatives to people who couldn't have a proper bowel movement. And it was just making people people so sick because instead of addressing the root cause problem, they're just, you know, taking a bunch of laxatives.
Speaker: um So, you know, trying to help our body perform some function that is designed to do on its own naturally is going to be a huge problem. And this even, this even has to do with chairs, like right? Like chairs are designed to make sitting more comfortable, easier. It's easier to get up and down, right? Instead of having to get all the way on the floor to sit um A lot of people i come across, they can't even sit on the floor, like sitting on the floor is so uncomfortable for them.
Speaker: So even something as simple, like seemingly innocuous, like a chair actually a problem. And that's where, you know, my, my view, my views start to sound a little extreme, but like, ah I do think for optimal health, we you should do your best to avoid the use of of chairs. We can't avoid it to a certain degree. You know, I have to, i i drive a car, i sit I sit in chairs. I'm not saying, you know, I've abandoned all furniture and I live this like purely like natural lifestyle, but but little little changes,
Speaker: that can have a huge impact, can have a huge benefit. So you don't have to go super extreme and be like, okay, and I'm just going to live in a cave with beeswax candles and no chairs and like never, you know, never expose myself to any of these like modern comforts.
Speaker: But you can you can still support your body, support your health by just making a few small things changes. you know don't Maybe instead of you know orthotics, look into strengthening your foot. you know Go barefoot a little bit more. um Try out a pair of barefoot shoes.
Speaker: I say that with a caveat too. like Some people jump into the whole barefoot thing and end up getting injured. so I think that there's a ah progression that I just want to give that disclaimer because a lot of people i know have ah injured themselves going too quickly into into the barefoot world. but That's just a an example of how far we have strayed from our natural design because going barefoot shouldn't injure anybody. And yet because of the extreme weakness that we see in a lot of people's feet and a lot of people's bodies in general, that we have to make the transition sometimes a little more slowly and conservatively um instead of just jumping right in anyway.
Speaker: and Yeah, another thing that is contributing to this is we have a lot of problematic training that is ah contributing to postural misalignment.
Speaker: Our body is going to adapt to whatever the repeated inputs are. um Obviously, there's going to be a limit to that adaptation. We we can stretch only so far before we tear, right? um But our body is really going to try and do a good job of of adapting. So if there's a repeated movement that we're doing over and over and over again in our training program Or, our you know, our training approach that is naturally going to show up in how we move our move ourselves throughout everyday life, eventually with enough input, right?
Speaker: um With enough input with enough load, perhaps with enough repetition, it's going to start to leave. and impact And this is what we were so what I was referencing earlier when we talked about the professional athletes who are injuring themselves. and There's and an undeniable increase in ah catastrophic non-contact injuries in the professional sports world.
Speaker: um And again, I think a lot of it has to do with this. introduction of powerlifting especially as one of the primary modes for ah strength training for these athletes.
Speaker: um I have a picture here, this guy's doing a barbell hip thrust which is probably one of my all-time least favorite exercises that exists in the world. um Simply because if you look at his posture, if I were to take that image and flip it vertically, right, if I were to take him from that that reclined position and set him up vertically, what position do we now see? We see that backwards reverse alignment, right? The pelvis is pushing forward of the rib cage.
Speaker: So we're seeing that. that toxic posture show up in this movement. And so if he's doing that over and over and over and over again, obviously it's going to have some type of impact on his body. And then we have this woman doing malasana, this, this wide leg squat with the feet turned out the pressure. You can see the pressure collapsing towards the inside edge of her foot.
Speaker: Um, I see this pose recommended all the time for pregnant women. And I just think it's just, again, these are like two of my least favorite exercises or movements or, you know, that that I think people um should absolutely avoid if if they are in the process of trying to restore natural movement.
Speaker: If you have a perfect posture and your gait mechanics are on point and you're pain-free, injury-free, like go for it, do whatever you want. Like it's not to say that the body can't be in these positions, but it's a matter of, you know, the dose makes the poison, right? Like,
Speaker: if you're doing it all the time and you're not balancing it out with just like natural movement, walking and, and, and not and focusing on holding your, your posture correctly, keeping your feet straight.
Speaker: um It's going to eventually cause some some issues. um Because ultimately everything is connected. So this is an image of um the tissue, the tissue line, actually, i believe this is the fascial line connecting the tongue all the way to our toes.
Speaker: So everything literally is connected in our body um through the fascial network and the tongue and the feet. ah I won't get into the details of it because this is like a whole podcast on its own, but our anatomy has a reflective and fractal nature to it. So as above, so below, we have all these different things.
Speaker: we have all these different um ah fractal representations of the whole system within the parts. So like, for example, like our hand um has a whole map of our entire body on it.
Speaker: Our eye, our tongue, our teeth. ah So these are all... um ways in which the the whole is represented in the part.
Speaker: So the the fractal nature of our body, which is actually really wonderful, beautiful, miraculous, because we can also focus on the part and have an impact on the whole.
Speaker: because of the fractal nature of our body. So even doing something as simple as focusing on our feet can have an impact through our whole body because everything is connected not only literally through that you know the fascial lines and the tissue, but also because we have these um fractalized representations of the whole body within various parts of our body as well. And our feet are included in that.
Speaker: There's a map of the entire body on our our foot as well. um So this is why i emphasize, going to kind of get into some of the things that are low hanging fruit that people can do immediately to have a huge impact on on their bodies.
Speaker: One, we talked about the importance of breath earlier, I touched on that a little bit. not just breathing, but nasal breathing is a game changer for most people. ah Even people who think they're breathing, they're, you know, I'm ah i'm not a mouth breather.
Speaker: If you really like observe and were to record yourself and when rewatch it and check for any instances of mouth breathing, I don't i don't know of anyone personally, and i I'm definitely not a pure nose breather.
Speaker: Right. um Obviously talking, singing, things like that are are exceptions. But most people breathe through their mouth and unconsciously at some point, maybe not all the time, but at some point they do.
Speaker: And with excessive mouth breathing comes a complete change in the structure of the face. So here's an example. This is kind of an extreme example, but this is a really famous image that comes from if anyone's familiar with the work of Dr. at Weston A. Price.
Speaker: he he talked about the impact that um nasal breathing versus mouth breathing had on the facial structure. So this little boy started having allergies to this pet hamster.
Speaker: Lo and behold, he started mouth breathing and his whole facial structure changed. and You can see the extreme recess of the of the jaw, his whole facial structure changes. And because, like I said, we have this fractal nature to our anatomy, this is going to impact way more than just his face, right? Way more than just his face is being impacted by this change in the pattern of his breathing.
Speaker: Because the changes in his breathing are changing the position of his tongue, right? ah Which is going to change the position of his facial structure. His face is going to narrow parts of the the bone is going to recess in the face as well.
Speaker: This is going to change how the jaw aligns. This is going to change how the teeth align. This is going to change the bite feedback that his nervous system gets. this is And this bite feedback is actually crucial in giving information to your nervous system about how you should stand and how your body should be positioned.
Speaker: um And then here's another example. I have an an illustration of the the teeth and how the teeth are all connected to different parts of the body as well. So um when we start to change the facial structure as well, there's all this teeth ah tooth crowding that starts to happen. People have to have extractions. There's an increase in decay, all of these issues. And that's going to affect, it can have a system-wide effect throughout the entire body when that starts to happen. All because you started breathing through your mouth, right? It seems like some like simple, small thing, but it has such a huge impact on your entire body. So again, everything is connected.
Speaker: Everything, everything in the body is connected and everything in the mind and the body is connected. And it's really, we can't even really think about the body and the mind being separate entities.
Speaker: when I work with clients, when I you know deal with my own um physical issues, because I was roughly 10 years ago, I was diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, which is a connective, a genetic, allegedly, genetic connective tissue disorder.
Speaker: And And i reversed all of the symptoms that I was experiencing, even though at the time when when I was dealing with it, i was totally it was debilitating. I was bedridden for several weeks. I could barely move. I was in pain all the time. i had like my My body literally was starting to fall apart and I had so much degradation um in my spine that I was starting to also get dysautonomia. My autonomic nervous system was starting to be impacted due to the ah misalignment of my spine, particularly like my cervical spine was really messed up.
Speaker: Anyhow, but I started to um also look at, well, how is the mind playing a part in this as well? Because the mind the body reflects the mind and and vice versa to a certain degree. i think you know I think it's not entirely a one-way relationship. I think how we carry our body can impact the mind, but the mind is so powerful.
Speaker: Like even if you just think about, you know if you were to think about the happiest moment of your life, you're The way you're holding your body is probably going to change, right? Even just the way, and if you were to think about something that made you really, really sad or really ashamed or embarrassed, your posture is naturally going to change. Like you look at the way animals are, right? Like a dog who, you know, did something wrong, yelling at it, their whole posture changes.
Speaker: So energy affects body. the material, the gross is informed by the subtle, the, the energetic um inputs are really, really going to have a huge impact on what we see materially in the body, in the posture.
Speaker: um And this has a lot to do with the fascia fascia is fascinating. Luckily it's getting a lot more attention in the movement and posture world. um And it's because fascia it stores and releases both physical and emotional energy.
Speaker: So trauma has been shown, it's been demonstrated to restrict the fascia and cause fascial restriction, like a huge amount of of pressure can actually be created through trauma in the fascial system.
Speaker: So ah I have a little slide here talking about it. Fascial restrictions can create tensile strength approximately 2000 pounds per square inch of pressure. So huge amounts of pressure can be created in the fascia simply through trauma.
Speaker: And I have an illustration here, the blue um the blue bands that we see are fascial bands. So these are um concentrated areas of fascia. And the colored spheres that we see are indicative of the the chakra system, the energy energy system that we can kind of ah we can think of it as as ah within the body as well. And there is a fascinating correlation between the location of these alleged energy centers within the body and the fascial bands and where they're located.
Speaker: um And this kind of gets into, again, this could be a whole a whole podcast on its own in terms of how fascia relates to energy. i think primarily because of um the way in which it holds water, right? It holds and structures the water and the the kind of within that fourth phase, that kind of plasma type water.
Speaker: um And it concentrates, it allows for it to hold ah energy in a very, very specific way within the body. And when that fascia gets restricted, it's going to have an impact on the way that the energy flows through the system.
Speaker: So it sounds a bit woo to talk about, you know, the the movement of energy, but there's just, I spent a long time studying, um,
Speaker: Sanskrit-based spiritual philosophy, things like that, meditation. um While I don't subscribe to it as a perfected system necessarily, there is a lot of incredible truth um within the within that system.
Speaker: And... um at least within the clients that I've worked with and in my direct experience, um physical injuries and things like that, that exist within the body almost always ah in my experience have a correlation with some type of energetic or traumatic psycho-spiritual, emotional injury that coincides with it.
Speaker: um So again, the mind-body dyad, we can't really think of the of of the body as being separated from the mind, they're going to work together and the things that we experience on an energetic level, the thoughts we have, the traumas we have, the emotions, um they will be reflected in how our body ah is holding itself, how our body ah carries itself.
Speaker: Okay. Also, I want to get to your sorry, I want to get to your, um, uh, your run. Yeah. Your analysis. Sorry. And I've been talking like a million miles a minute here. this is and Any questions, please jump in if there's, I will know you're covering everything very well. You're answering all my questions as you go. So keep it up. Awesome. Okay, good. I'm so glad. Okay.
Speaker: Um, but I, I do want to get to your, your assessment and I know we're, we're already kind of time already, but, um, So one of the things also that we see here, and we're going to see this in your run. So that one of the reasons I included this slide as well.
Speaker: We have internal asymmetries and like the right dome of our diaphragm is thicker, stronger than our left. And so naturally, even the internal pressure as it moves with our breathing, it's not symmetrical.
Speaker: And so our bodies, almost everyone I've ever seen, I'm sure there's there's always outliers, of course. So I try to be careful about saying everyone, but like basically everyone has this type of asymmetry within their their bodies.
Speaker: um And it is almost always represented as a twisting of the body to the right. So the right hip, the right side of the pelvis sits back and the left side is kind of pushed forward.
Speaker: And I have theories about this and we'll get into it when we look at your run. um But i have I have ideas around why this is from the context of the mind body dyad and why would we be shifted more to the right side of our our bodies.
Speaker: um So, okay, we're gonna get into your run, finally. Okay, Liev's run, here we go. I've broken it down into slow motion. So I just, after we've gone through all of these topics, right, and i've kind of described what it is that we're wanting to look at with natural movement, um we're gonna play this in slow motion. And I want you to just take a look.
Speaker: And just take a second to see what do what do you see as as you watch these? So how how do you think how do you think your run is?
Speaker: What's your just immediate self-assessment? whoop sorry it doesn't look It doesn't look terrible. i don't It's not as bad as the girl on the beach, but it doesn't seem like my the like my my knee is going in when I'm as much when I'm releasing, right? Like my knee's not really coming in and the the heels not popping to the inside as much as ah some of those videos that we watched.
Speaker: Yeah. It seems like I'm bearing the weight okay. Like it seems like there is a little bit of a like deflection, like um absorption on the landing.
Speaker: You're right on. You're good. You should, you got this. You're clearly paying attention. Awesome. Cool. well and I know you're tried to run any good tried to run as naturally as I could because i was like, oh I can't, I'm not going force it. Like, I want to do a legit, I like, maybe.
Speaker: You did great. And actually, that's why I told you to run, to sprint. Like, just, you know, run as fast as you can because because things are happening so quickly that we get to see the run as naked as it gets because it's things are happening too quickly to really control.
Speaker: um and that's a point that I would emphasize is like, we don't want to try and control or change necessarily how we run because it can be really unsafe. I actually injured myself that way. It was so stupid.
Speaker: I was like analyzing my own run and I'd been watching the video and I was like, man, I really need to get more rotation. Like I need to get more rotation, but instead of being patient and like training,
Speaker: my posture and alignment and doing the kind of restorative exercises, i tried to force it and I really messed up my knee one time. So all this to say, don't take these images, if you're you know watching this and try to force yourself. You should always run the way you feel safest. Your body is gonna self-organize in a way that's safe for you.
Speaker: um so ah But yeah, so but but when we're running really fast, typically we can't control what's going on and we're just going to get, we're going to see what's really there. And your run is great.
Speaker: yeah You have a really, really good run. It's not completely aligned with the with the natural biomechanics, but there's definitely parts that are still within the blueprint. It's really good. So I can tell through, you know,
Speaker: awesome that you wear barefoot shoes. you You spend a lot of time in nature. You're interested in like natural movement. And this definitely reflects on the floor too. Been sitting on the floor for almost a year now.
Speaker: I think that's a lot. I love that. Yeah. yeah That's awesome. It makes this such a huge difference. Like those things show it shows.
Speaker: So those small changes sitting on the floor, right, wearing barefoot shoes, it shows in your gait mechanics that and I think it has helped to preserve some of that that blueprint, even though you admitted to being a gym around probably doing it. You probably have done a lot of power lifting and barbell lifting in your in your day.
Speaker: um which can have a um definitely can degrade the the movement patterns. But I'll get into some of the specifics that I see. I have some screenshots here. So one thing that I'm going get you on is your foot placement.
Speaker: So it was a little hard to see with the snow. sorry that you have much snow. There was so much snow and the road was so icy. That's all what that's all we could do. But I think you you still caught me. You still caught me here.
Speaker: Yeah. So it's not, it's not huge, but there is a little bit of turnout in the foot. So that is one thing that we, that I, I think is fairly safe for us to control in our gait is the foot placement, right? Is,
Speaker: controlling whether or not we land with a straight foot. um So that is one thing that we can all focus on when we're walking, when we're running, is to intentionally you know have the foot placed straight. And it's going to have a huge impact, honestly, just but just by doing that small thing.
Speaker: um Because then every step that we're taking, we're bringing ourselves a little bit closer to to the blueprint. It's going to help, as opposed to taking us further away from it. right So that was one thing that I noticed, the foot placement slightly turned out not terrible, but that could definitely be something that you can you can change moving forward.
Speaker: um Also, foot placement in relation to the rest of the body. Your foot placement is not underneath your your head, basically. So if i draw a line from your same side eye down to the foot, um it's not as pronounced when you're on your left, the left side of your your stance.
Speaker: But on your right hand side, um it's definitely you can see the image that's on the left is your the right hand stride. And you can see how your foot is really your head is way further out from your midline. Yeah. And actually,
Speaker: um you know I'll talk a little bit about this. Your overall tendency, like I said, is twisted to the right. So your whole body is kind of rotated to the right through that pattern that I see in almost everybody. right And it's most likely if we were to take some time and look at your posture, i can almost guarantee that the right side of your pelvis is rotated back from from the left.
Speaker: So there's like this twist through the pelvis. Almost everyone I've ever worked with has this. well This manifests in my shoulders as well. Like I have way better range of motion going to the right when I'm rotating versus the left. I'm like stuck.
Speaker: It's so interesting. Yes. on both Yeah. it's It's like this consistent. Yeah. Because everything's connected. And then if your pelvis is twisted that way, then of course it's going to affect the the rotation of your torso.
Speaker: But like you said, when you're watching the video, your loading pattern is excellent. you still have a really, really good loading pattern through your leg. You have really good outward absorption of pressure. You get that nice bow shape from the foot to the hip.
Speaker: So really good. So that's excellent because that's where you're absorbing the most force, right? Is in that loading pattern. So if that's in alignment, that's going to really help protect you from any kind of major injury, right? Because when we're absorbing force is when we are most prone to getting some type of injury.
Speaker: So that's really good. I was really happy to see that. And then your release pattern is kind of mixed. So some strides you had ah good rotation and some strides you had an opposite rotation.
Speaker: So it was it could have been partly to the the snow and the slipperiness of the terrain. So I'll give you that, you know, I'll give you that pass. um But as you can see, the image on the left, we had an external rotation of the leg away from the direction the rest of your body.
Speaker: So your body is moving to the right and your leg was rotating off to the left, if you can see that. um And then but on this other side, when you were releasing your right leg,
Speaker: um you got good rotation, you got good internal rotation. And this is probably also connected to the overall rotation of your body to the right. Because like I said, when the pelvis, it gets pushed forward, it naturally is going to externally rotate the femur, right?
Speaker: So on your left side, because it's more pushed forward, there's less room for your femur to internally rotate. It gets kind of stuck. But on your right side, because it sits further back, there's more workspace for the femoral head. So it's able to internally rotate more easily. And again, this this pattern, this asymmetrical right rotation pattern um is probably largely responsible for why your gait mechanics are showing up the way that they are.
Speaker: um And so I have this theory. This is just a theory, of course. um But because your entire body is more rotated to the right side, um I think maybe a contributing factor to that has to do with left brain, right brain dominance.
Speaker: Right. So because our right side is ruled by our left brain, which is our analytical brain, it's our sequential thinking brain. mathematical, logical, rational ah brain, right? That seems to kind of fit, I would say with, well, with actually most of us, most of us are trained to be more in that side of our mind versus the right side of our brain, which rules lateral thinking, creativity, emotionality, right? We're, we're I think, interestingly moved away from that, you
Speaker: that balance, which i think a lot of children have, right, where they're um kind of more creative, more playful, less less sequential and linear in their in their approach to things potentially.
Speaker: um but i But I have this idea, i haven't put it to the test, but I think if we can find our way back into a more balanced use of left brain, right brain, and perhaps cultivate more because we see so much of this predominance of a shifting to the right,
Speaker: um that by introducing more play, more fun, more, you know, um more of that right brained activity that we can restore ah our pattern more effectively, perhaps faster, perhaps more significantly.
Speaker: um i won't say that that's the only thing that we would have to do necessarily, but I think that could be a wonderful addition to any program or attempt to to restore natural movement and balance in the body.
Speaker: Absolutely. Wow. That's beautiful. I love that. I love that ah that that. That fits really well. Kind of, I'm just kind of reflecting on it briefly here. That just fits really well. resonates a lot. That's really interesting.
Speaker: I just struggle more with the creative side of things as well. I'd love to dig into that a little bit more too. Maybe in the next episode, it it sounds like we're going have to do another one here because, you know, we could go deep on, on many, many different topics here.
Speaker: Yeah. Yeah, sorry that I just like powered my way through the through that whole like, ah you know, the whole presentation of it. But um and I would love to, you know, have more back and forth and and conversation and questions, you know, and um yeah, ah but yeah, I would love to to be back on. But I actually I'm almost I'm basically at the end of my presentation. Oh, great.
Speaker: And the last the last slide is kind of just my closing thoughts on um how can we restore you know natural design? Because that's the big question, right? And that's what a lot of these different movement modalities are trying to figure out. And some of them claim to have the answer.
Speaker: i will say from my assessment and having been involved with many different training modalities, training programs and platforms, No one has all the answers. Everyone is still figuring it out.
Speaker: um They have some answers and some good thoughts. And there's definitely a lot of truth to be had in in some of these systems, but no one has everything figured out because, you know, only, only God knows really, truly like the whole picture. Right. So we're all kind of just fumbling through the dark, trying to,
Speaker: trying to come up with some answers. But so I wanted to come up with some just like free, easy things that people can do right away that don't involve, you know, again, purchasing some expensive program or equipment or shoes or whatever it is, right?
Speaker: Just to cultivate postural awareness is going to be huge. It sounds so simple. that people kind of just throw it away, but it's huge. and Looking at your feet, are they straight?
Speaker: Am I pushing my hips forward? Am I flaring my ribs out? Right. Just, just kind of cultivating some of that awareness and self-correcting as you go throughout the day, huge difference. It'll make a huge difference.
Speaker: um Also avoiding some of these excessive comforts, like we're talking like sitting on the floor, um you know, going barefoot more, um those are gonna have ah also a huge impact on your overall wellbeing and your and your postural health and your movement health.
Speaker: um And just avoiding some of these problematic training modalities. you know Maybe don't do 300, the three hundred ah you know, glute bridges that you were going to, you know, program in for yourself, you know, and and look into just, you know, walking, running, um jumping.
Speaker: ah Jump rope is like an amazing form of workout for most people, building strength. It's like lymphatic drainage, does all sorts of really wonderful stuff. It's easy. It's cheap. You don't have to buy expensive equipment. You can do it almost anywhere.
Speaker: And then healing trauma because of the impact that trauma has on our fascia, simply by releasing trauma, learning to forgive yourself, learning to forgive other people, healing yourself on an emotional level can change absolutely change your body and your physique and your posture and your movement.
Speaker: um And just make you you know feel better too. on all levels, like physically and and emotionally. And these are things that that anyone can do from anywhere. you don't need special location or equipment or anything.
Speaker: And just by doing these basic free things, ah you can have a huge impact on your posture and health. And I emphasize and in the content that I put out also, um that watching sunrise and sunset, getting, you know, proper light exposure, um walking in nature barefoot, climbing things, dancing and singing, ideally with others, um and playing. I feel like all of these things are part of the creator's blueprint for us.
Speaker: These activities, which are free, freely available to all of us, um are part of how we were meant to maintain our mental and physical health on a day-to-day basis.
Speaker: um And I think that that's part of, part of the design as well. Like these, these particular activities yeah and that's it. Yeah. I made it through. That's great. Yeah. Really great actionable steps there at the end too. I love that. So simple, so fun getting back to, you know, even like a childlike state in a way, right? Like having that, you know,
Speaker: creativity and movement even like we're kind of tie tie both those concepts together that's that's really amazing so thank you i mean that was a great presentation no honestly I really enjoyed that I can't wait go back and listen to it again in the meantime for the listeners you know how can they find you how can they support you what's uh what's the best way to to learn from you um I am in the process of kind of rebuilding my business. I've been gone for a while. Like, like we kind of talked about at the beginning of the podcast. I, um I wasn't even able to do this interview for a long time, even though you invited me quite a while back.
Speaker: um I've been just dealing with motherhood. i had, you know, I had my baby at the end of 2023 you And I stopped all of my clients. I took i I'm still I guess I'm coming out of maternity leave right now, you know, but um so I'm rebuilding things anyway. All that to say, I don't have a ton of offerings at this time.
Speaker: um I'm not I'm not training. students currently, but that's something that I do plan to change very soon. I'm planning to release an online course. um I've been talking about this online course for a very long time.
Speaker: I swear I'm working on it. um But just showing some of the some of the movements that I think are beneficial to help reverse some of the effects that we see um from all of these, you know, from the sitting in chairs, from from the postural misalignments that are caused by by modern life. So um that is forthcoming. In the meantime, the probably the best place to see content for me is on Instagram. I also have a Patreon.
Speaker: um So i have a Patreon where I put um ah some videos and I am planning, i have, I have a lot of Patreon content currently planned out. There's some breath work that's going to be coming out.
Speaker: um as well as some exercises. I'm kind of using Patreon right now as a testing ground for some of the material that will eventually be packaged into ah into a course. And then hopefully I will be taking on ah clients again once once things settle down. I've got a toddler, you know, we're potty training, we're like doing all the, I'm doing all the mom things. So it is really tough, unfortunately, to carve out a to carve out time, but I am, i am definitely back in the mix.
Speaker: I was off of Instagram for several months, you know, but I'm, I'm kind of slowly clawing my way back into the public sphere and, and, and hoping to, to just share some of what I know and in the hopes to, to just benefit whoever is interested. Amazing.
Speaker: Well, thanks so much. I've learned a lot from you over the last you know, year so or so, maybe a little bit more since i've I've encountered your work and I learned a lot today. So I really appreciate your time and all the wisdom that you've shared. Thank you so much for coming on.
Speaker: Oh, no, thank the pleasure's all mine. I'm again, so honored to to be on your podcast. I think the the information and and, you know, your content is amazing and so beneficial to so many people. So I'm really just happy to be ah included in in the mix.
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