by Tim Harwood | Oct 30, 2024 | Exercises, Lower body
This movement is a way of lengthening the psoas muscle (one of the hip flexors) which has a number of key steps to it. These are using the mechanics of the body to try to focus the movement into the psoas and countering typical avoidance movements. This is an...
by Tim Harwood | Mar 15, 2024 | Exercises
This is a lovely movement that I find helps to soften the low back and pelvis. Is similar to the Scapula Scritch, but the other end of ths spine. Why do I call it a scritch? Well, it’s a word I’ve (possibly) made up that is kind of like a scratch or an...
by Tim Harwood | Mar 15, 2024 | Exercises
This is a lovely movement that I find helps to soften the shoulders and neck. It gets into the muscles that help to control the position and motion of the scapula and so helps with repositioning. In modern life the shoulderblades have a tendency to roll forwards as...
by Tim Harwood | Nov 23, 2023 | Exercises, Lower body
The feet are an area that many of us over look, and may try to not think about. However, they are how we interact with the world and move through it so we should at times give them some love. There are 22 bones (!) in the foot itself, and they have 33 joints! The...
by Tim Harwood | Oct 20, 2023 | Exercises, Lower body
This is such a classic stretch that many people do, and it can be seen as variation of Pigeon pose from the Yoga traditions, or the Sign of Four from Pilates. It can also be done lying on the ground and I have also shown it as part of my “Meeting...
by Tim Harwood | Oct 20, 2023 | Exercises, Lower body
This is a variation of the Classic Clamshell and this is meant to help focus the effort into one of the deeper hip stabiliser muscles. This is that is the Gluteus Minimus muscle. This muscle runs vertically from from the boney point of the Greater Trochanter (which...
