On today’s episode we welcome Gary Stockdale from Southern California. Gary is a kinesiologist and movement and aquatics coach with over 15 years of experience working to improve and optimise the bodily dynamics of his clientele. Gary and I have had many conversations over the last couple of years from all things movement to self discovery and anything in between. He brings a deep thoughtful approach to the movement world and pays particular attention to the seeking of symmetry and balance both inside the movement world and just outside of it. Gary is an expert in gait and aquatic development and it was an honor to have him share is vast knowledge on the show today

In Today’s Episode we talk about triplanar movement, distribution of load through various dynamics, the gaps in movement education, rotational movement for power expression, anatomy trains, how to organise thoughts around improving movement, the quest for symmetry and balance, the role and understanding of posture, environmental cueing verse specific drilling, the importance of educating people on what the body does especially in early education, the role of understanding self in empowerment, movements effects on the body as a whole, personal empowerment in movement and its implications to other elements of our lives, awareness of self vocabulary, personal responsibility in our relationships with our body, foundational movements including spinal elongation, breathwork and elasticity and finally the importance of understanding self in our development as coaches