Movement tips and fun challenges 💛
26/03/2023
The final clear out is complete.
Good bye physical space, hello to the next season of life.
Thank you again to everyone who’s been a part of this journey, from the support, to community members and friends 💛
30/12/2022
Favourite photo of the year.
Awesome humans (+one epic doggo) and the ol humble resting squat.
11/11/2022
How epic, Sunshine Coast has an epic event coming up with founder of
Date & Time: Sunday 20 November 2022 10.30am to 3.30pm (inc. 60-min lunch break)
Teacher: Thomas Emerson
Venue: 25 Premier Circuit Warana
Price: $200pp
Do I need to be a good mover already?
No prior experience of any kind is required whatsoever. This workshop is for everyday people who want to be able to express themselves more freely, regardless of current levels of strength, flexibility or fitness. It will also provide tools for more experienced movement practitioners to allow themselves to let go and truly improvise.
Why should I come?
Anyone who feels inhibited in their physical expression — who wishes they could dance without feeling embarrassed – will love this workshop. That description may apply to people with very little experience in physical practice or, at the other extreme, perfectionists with high levels of experience. We should all feel free to play, to dance and to enjoy our embodiment, regardless of how skilled or experienced we may be.
What will be covered?
1. Tools for developing the capacity to segmentally articulate the entire spine from head to tail, creating space for expression and also freedom from pain, discomfort and injury.
2. How to work with partners and more open movement scenarios to remap, reconnect with, and release unnecessary tension from our bodies.
3. Basic exercises to find more rhythmicality in our movement.
4. Drills to help regain elasticity in all of our tissues — from the tips of the fingers to the soles of the feet — in order to move with more youthful springiness, athleticism and power.
5. Concepts to apply during improvisation to create truly novel movements and achieve a state of flow.
You can learn more about the teacher by watching this: https://youtu.be/2Gm_jIS90MI or reading this: https://praksis.com.au/bios/emerson
26/10/2022
Spot the difference!
Here we have .piana doing 2 very nice tuck handstand positions.
One of these is taking it to the next level!
Comment below if you want to call out the differences or pop a ✋🏼up if you want a notification when I break this down 😀
What I will say before I do the analysis is the tuck gives some real bang for buck!!!
Pop your comments in and I’ll pop the analysis in over the weekend.
Epic Movement event coming to Corrective Culture this November.
Thomas a Emerson from Praksis will be travelling up from Canberra to share the joys of movement, inspired by tribal dance and contact improv to express movement freely.
This is a workshop that caters to all levels and experience!
Get your tickets by the 31st of October for the early bird price: https://praksis.com.au/workshops/correctiveculture
1 year tomorrow 😍🌻
Expressive Movement Workshop
Date: Sunday 20th November 2022
Time: 10.30am to 3.30pm (inc. 60-min lunch break)
Teacher: Thomas Emerson
Venue: Corrective Culture (25 Premier Circuit, Warana)
Price: $140 Early Bird (available until 31/10/22) - full price $200
Too often our physical practices lead us away from genuine freedom while purporting to take us toward it. We learn to move in a predetermined way that is considered ‘good’, ‘right’ or ‘beautiful’ by our teacher, our community or our culture. And indeed we can develop impressive physical skills through such an orientation. But we often do so while failing to ever truly express ourselves. We never just let go. We look free while feeling trapped.
The purpose of this workshop is to guide you toward the expression of your ‘self’ rather than the expression of some ‘other’. The material and perspectives shared will help you move with exuberance, rhythm and fluidity while relinquishing the inhibitive narratives that keep you from being yourself.
If you come along, you will feel like you’re doing a kind of mix between tribal dance and contact improvisation. And you’ll feel like you’re good at it!
The event will be led by the founder of Praksis, Thomas Emerson, whose work draws on many years of study under Ido Portal, Simon Thakur and others with the goal of helping everyday people conquer their fears and learn to become more unabashedly themselves through movement practice.