Did you know?
There is a way to do movement, such as yoga, martial arts, biking, skiing, etc. that fosters your vital biological, instinctual skills for:
- Neuroception - your brain's unconscious ability to discern and respond accurately to physical threat and emotional manipulation, to keep you and your loved ones safe.
- Connection & prosocial skills — capacities eroding in a digital world, yet essential for belonging and relational health
- Ethical innovation — ability to realize solutions to situations that once felt impossible to resolve
And there’s a way to move that doesn't do this. Your practice can train these skills — or bypass them.
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Movement That Trains. Movement That Bypasses
Defining Movement
Activities that move the body in physical space. This can span to include all sorts of exercise, such as yoga, martial arts, biking, skiing, etc. But it could also span to include RV'ing, camping, traveling.
Train With Intention
What you don't use, you lose, and in today's society with all its conveniences and complexities, we are losing touch with our instincts. This loss should scare us. Our instincts are a essential to keeping ourselves, our families and communities safe. Instincts also play a strong role in helping us navigate, adapt and self-author within and through this complex world. We still live in a juggle of sorts, but now the threats and opportunities are much more hidden.
There is a way to train, to exercise and move that flex's these biological instincts to sharpen them. There is also a way to train, exercise and move your body that deadens them.
Movement That Trains
Our biological is designed to move, and it is designed to move in ways that cultivate 3 instinctual capacities:
-Neuroception (threat discernment and response)
-Connection and prosocial skills
-Generative and regenerative skills
When we train in ways that do not take our biology's instinctual needs into consideration, it makes our biology chronically anxious. WHY? Because these skills are absolutely VITAL to our survival and evolution.
Ever wondered why children spontaneously want to move and play? Ever wonder why babies instinctually know how to play Peek-a-Boo? It is instinctual and neuro-exercise. When children move and play it is flexing these 3 instinctual skills. Play and movement are serious business activities for our biology.
Movement That Bypasses
Much of the ways we move, play and exercise now a days do not flex these three vital neurobiological skills. Why? There are many reasons for this. One being, we are approaching it with the wrong intention. Second, we are all swimming in societal waters that prevent us from hearing the signal of our body and it's yearnings. We are raised in educational systems that perceive other learning priorities, etc. Symptoms that we are misaligned with the signal of biology are things like:
- Chronic feelings of depression, anxiety or impending doom
- Compulsivity
- Lack of an internalized sense of safety in body
- Feeling stunted or stalled in your own evolution and personal growth
- Escaping into compulsive play, movement and creativity, with little grounding in reality
- Or the opposite, escaping into the serious business of life and lacking joy, play and creativity
- Chronically feeling trapped, stuck in situations that appear to have no solution
There is a lot of talk these days of trauma being a strong contributor of many of these symptoms. I want to challenge this cultural narrative. While trauma is a part of life, it is not a life sentence. My question for you is: if your life embodied practices the flexed these neurobiological skills, to what degree would your symptoms reduce?
Embodi Movement programs help teach to train with intention. They are programs that help you water a few plants with one movement program, being the plants of aligning and listening to your biology to foster your ability to navigate, adapt and create through the ups and downs of life.