Extensorville Part 1 Remember Baby J and the development of his extensor system? See blog post here https://mewithlauriebb.com/baby-j-shows-us-how-to-develop-our-extensor-system/ and review the short video of Baby J showing us how it’s done! https://youtube.com/shorts/SDDKckKN17c?feature=share Co-contraction of the Flexor and Extensor System We are born in flexion. We develop Read more…
This blog post speaks to the way infants are born in “flexion” and must develop their extensor system so they can eventually sit, crawl, squat, stand, and walk, as well as pick things up from the ground.
Squatting is a full body movement, allowing us to function in the world around us. Without the ability to squat, it becomes difficult and/or impossible to lower ourselves towards the earth, to sit, to toilet, and to get back up again.
Squatting is a motor skill. Motor skills involve precise movement of muscles with an intent to perform a specific act. The precise movements for squatting are developed through a series of movement components we begin practicing in infancy.
Teaching yoga and movement classes gives us the perfect opportunity to explore the components that actually combine to make a squat.
The psoas is often blamed for hip tightness, low back pain, and more. The psoas is misunderstood. Read this post to learn a few interesting tidbits about your psoas and what it actually does.
My Husband got a Cramp…. My husband got a calf cramp while riding his fancy pants new bike up a steep trail the other day. Scientifically speaking, muscle cramps are sudden, involuntary and painful contractions of muscular tissue. He made the mistake of telling me about it while we were Read more…
My husband and daughter work as civil engineers. Early in their college education they studied “statics”. Statics is the analysis of loads acting on physical systems that are in static equilibrium with their environment, that don’t experience acceleration. Later in college, they also studied something called “dynamics”, which is the Read more…
