Hi all. I'm taking notes from last week's Group Class in preparation for this week. There was a great moment at the end when Glenn got a bit poetic. Thought I'd share it here in case anyone missed it. "We think of ourselves like machines, as if we were cars. A car doesn’t change shape – the parts are the parts. But that’s not how we are at all. Spend your time shaping a Bonsai Tree. The same thing happens to your limbs. You are shaped by gravity and time. That’s it. If you were to simplify everything that we’re f*cking around with here – it’s “you are shaped by gravity and time”. Learn how to play with gravity, and learn how to spend time doing it. F*cking Boom." (Mic Drop)

Sometimes we do things and get unexpected outcomes, pleasantly surprised by changes. Maybe we weren’t seeking these things specifically, or perhaps we were caught up searching for a different result that we were blindsided. Either way, it’s a lovely thing and it feeds the trust in the human body being a complex system. An example for me this week, a positive surprising result; since I stopped teaching regular classes and face to face PT my daily movement has significantly decreased in terms of variety and quality. I still move all day with the kids but it’s not intentional. Previously I might demonstrate foot rooting exercises 3-4x per day. I would hang regularly throughout the day. I would do reps of all types of exercises.. so my body felt great before I even put any time aside for my training. Nowadays that’s a different story. But this week, I got stuck into some jobs I’ve been putting off. Weeding my garden specifically. I got time in the sunshine, barefoot in nature, the kids helped fill the wheel barrow and dig around, my toes, feet and ankles got amazingly stimulated and I even got a sweat on which felt great. I had been a bit down because I haven’t found as much time to train as I would like to, but by taking on this ‘chore’ I was pleasantly surprised by how good my body felt. I was moving through squat, fisherman squats, and various low gait positions for a couple of hours, 3 days in a row. The only benefit to procrastinating this job so long was that I finally did it on the first days of spring when the sunshine was so glorious (hello Vitamin D ☀️). A few things I did to make this job nourishing to the body… I used both hands to pull weeds, I raked on both sides of my body, I squatted with flat feet, sometimes on the balls of my feet, and moved into fisherman squat regularly. I stood up from time to time when the legs needed a rest and then got straight back to work. When lifting the wheelbarrow to the greens bin I used my whole body. At the end of the night I lied down in the lounge room and did some thoracic rotation and rolling over the basketball. 💫

I’d love to hear if anyone has a win to share? Big or small it’s all worth celebrating. Perhaps simply being consistent? Or Does your body feel different, can it do something you usually can’t do? Or have you noticed a knock on affect in another area of life?