Walking is the best self-care...but...
Want to walk more often or further but find it painful?
Has your balance been challenged lately?
Finding it difficult to get up and down from the floor? Have you given up on that vital possibility?
Want to find stability and flexibility at the same time…to be stable with ease?
Trying to find a simpler way to improve something you like to do? Your walking or running, your sport, your dance, your yoga or tai chi…just about anything involving movement…but find yourself hitting a plateau or suddenly finding it painful?
Watched your parents/friends age and want to make your aging easier?
Bones for Life® could be for you!
Questions?
- Call/text Brian at 513.300.5174
Brian Shircliff
Bones for Life Trainer & Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner
A Bones for Life Series
Stand Tall...Move with Delight
open to anyone ages 18+ (<17 bring a parent/guardian)
in-person dates at VITALITY, five Tuesdays from 10:30-11:45am, for $20 each: April 22, 29 + May May 6, 13, 20 ($101 for the series, Brian’s personal clients can drop in for $20/session)
Check out...FIND YOUR VITALITY!
sit in the quiet for a bit, move how you want for a bit, chat with friends all over the world…all by Zoom and from the comfort of your own home…and only costs you $1!
join Paula Dunson and Brian Shircliff…FIND YOUR VITALITY…FIND YOUR DELIGHT…FIND YOUR ROOTS!
Is it really that gentle? How could gentle do any good?
Bones for Life is definitely gentle and yet enables such profound changes. There are 90 processes…some are explored from a chair, some from the floor (or bed or massage table, if that’s easier), and some from standing. The teacher/leader invites small movements that can be explored by anyone, even in one’s own imagination.
Bones for Life processes rely on baby/toddler movements which grew each of our nervous systems. Those moves eventually helped us to figure out how to stand up on one’s own on this gravity-rich planet, and then take a step, and then walk a bit, and then walk efficiently. Humans are the only mammals who have to learn to move — we are born without nervous systems already wired into move. Most mammals walk within minutes of birth. It takes us humans about a year to stand and walk, maybe even longer!
When we revisit those baby/toddler moves and relate them to mature walking, something very powerful happens in one’s nervous system — old aches and pains can disappear, walking becomes pleasurable again or even for the first time, and bones can get the stimulation they need to grow through healthier walking.
Ruthy Alon created Bones for Life when she was about 65 years old to prevent to restore our joints to innocence so that we might more readily and easily build bone health through walking. Study after study reveals that walking is the best exercise we can offer ourselves — and the ONLY thing that all studies point to as critical in building bone health and preventing osteoporosis.
Ruthy was a longtime student of Moshe Feldenkrais. She uses his ideas of slow, gentle movement to change the ways one’s brain organizes the complex relationships in every human body between bone, muscle, connective tissue — one’s whole whole self — under the greatest force on the planet, gravity.
“Feldenkrais,” “Feldenkrais Method,” and “Awareness Through Movement” are service marks of the “Feldenkrais Guild® of North America.”
The Movement Intelligence Programs Bones for Life®, Walk for Life, Chairs, Mindful Eating and Solutions are the intellectual property of Ruthy Alon, PhD.