Movement Lessons With Elia Mrak
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I want you meet Elia Mrak. He’s one of our SBSM moderators, and he’s also my teaching partner for the Up & Down movement workshops.
Our body, brain and nervous system craves play (also known as curiosity-filled learning) so that it can let go and just BE.
Elia’s capacity to teach movement and inspire aliveness is like nothing I’ve ever seen. Enjoy!
A note from Elia:
Hello SBSM Participants!
I want to share a few words about how you adapt the movement lessons to meet your body where it’s at. All of the practices in the movement lessons can be adapted for a chair, or can be done lying down. If participating physically in the practices is too much right now, just listening and watching me do them is also a good way to spark your mirror neurons and will still bring benefit to your cells and tissues.
If you are able to do some amount of movement, ways that it can be adapted to a chair include:
- Just doing movements with your arms
- Using the chair as a support to gentle shift weight side to side and move the feet
- Finding gentle ways to flex and arch the spine, and gently twist left and right with the eyes and head
If you are lying down, options include:
- Gentle flexing the feet and wiggling the toes
- Gently rolling the head and/or torso side to side
- Listening to the practices while you also surrender to the ground and rest
As with all of the nervous system work you do in SBSM, it is important that when we move, we also titrate and go slowly so that our system doesn’t get overwhelmed and we can integrate the movements into our body to support our healing. Little by little, soft and gentle.
With love,
~ Elia