UNDERSTAND, GOOD, PLAY! Natures Natural Movement

Hi this is my journey to understanding then sharing the meaning of Good Play! from the day we are born we all have the ability to implement Natural Movement Practices, allow me to take you back to the mind set of curiosities and child-like exploration? “Example” when younger we could crouch down, kneels, roll, do hand stands, climb walls, trees, jump puddles, duck down, dive and weave?

So tell me how is it as we approach our fifties we suddenly get so stiff we start to bend from our backs instead of crouching down from our knees to pick things up from the floor? We sit in chairs to eat, to work, to watch TV, to rest even play! etc etc ... knowing this short descriptive outline are you surprised that knees, hips replacement surgery is at a all time high?

But strangely enough only in the WEST its a fact in the EASTERN countries like Japan its almost unheard of “replacement surgery” … no surprise you will find people in their mid even late seventies can sit on the floor crossed legged even jump up from that low position from the floor ...

So this is my project my passion! I have a good friend Dennis Bartram who for the last 35 years has worked, played, studied, he even built a school of therapist from around the globe who work the healing part of this Eastern martial arts art Ninjutsu this segment is called Amatsu there are four segments to this therapy Anma, Seitai, Shinden Jutsu, Kenku Jutsus,

Here an Amatsu practitioner therapy balance includes: all muscles are reciprocally balanced, that is to say they are in a balanced tension with a partner. Similar to guide ropes acting on a tent pole to maintain its position If one muscle becomes unbalanced the opposing muscle must adapt for those changes, which often results in joint strains. In fact 90% of joint problems occur due to imbalanced muscle pulls, to evaluate a person’s problem; with muscle testing enables the practitioner to elicit both the weak muscles and the tight muscles in your body.

My intension is to bring to the public arena what this guy Dennis Bartram does on a daily basis to keep himself in peek condition to be able to do the things he does to demonstrate what he preaches to others works for him in this first post you will find 2 videos of the Budo element from where this video maintenance workshop will start from then I will show you his school teachings where and how he trains his practitioners then how he unwinds by using all these skills to work in his own garden paradise.
So Stay Tuned In!!

All my best to you and your better agility
Phillip Skinner

think about it

Thought for the DAY Nothing Stays the Same As the decades fade by one thing for certain for all humans Yes’s this includes you oh peering one as you sit on this wonderful planet by surfing to this page please understand! … This has to do with wisdom related to and from life as lived with out any health wealth no-action barriers every thought can be and usually are “think about it?” … Materialized …

As we spin into the future we soon come to learn that really oh yes really Nothing Stays the Same even our body's respond differently in movement UNDERSTAND? so my quest is to pioneer a website with wisdom as the key to use with sharing learned knowledge that will help everyone who like me in the past few decades thought that in life every thing stayed the same.

The human upright bipedal walk has in it the potential for a body- mind- spirit principle known as SHIN GI TAI ICHI. This translates as SHIN our spirit or affective domain, GI as the person in the kin-aesthetic or psychomotor domain and the TAI the mind in the cognitive realm. As we walk move and work in this behavior, any performed task is in the NOW ICHI as one moment. This form of awareness and movement is our heritage of nature's evolvement of the psyche-soma of the upright bipedal human.

I utilise and explain the virtues of this kind of movement to the therapists I train. Firstly, it encompasses a high level of ergonomic safety for the practitioner and secondly becomes the generator of the tactile power and feeling for the psychomotor skill of the therapy. As my research develops, I hope to develop a program of videos demonstrating movement-orientated exercises to help bring out better wellness awareness in all body conditions.
A few years ago I heard the term floating bones back then it really did not have the meaning or impact it has today in my life as for my sitting, especially crouching, even standing my knees especially have to be maintained on a daily basis with exercises that fit into my busy life style … I know … I know … we all wait usually to late before we take our bodies maintenance seriously because in today’s society especially if your a GP a doctors trusting kind of person if your knees hurt for a long spell … you can simply put your name down to have knee replacement surgery or maybe a pain relief prescription might do the trick if your in real pain in your joints or any where else in the body

BUT what if through a series of instruction, reading, digesting information from those who understand the how to’s ... and of course taking daily action to maintain ones own body could give you the floating bones feeling every time you moved it was with a painless effort? … now that to me has to be worth some time and study to find out what the best way to treat our bodies so we can still be flexible to a ripe old age now this topic has to be worth every ones time and concentration

All my best to you and yours
Phillip Skinner