Thinkmovement: Recent Episodes
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Jenn Pilotti and Jereme Sanders join Chris Ruffolo in discussing first jobs, venturing out on their own, trial and error business building, and where they'd like their income to come from in the next three years.
The premise is this: pick a sport and an age group to get to teach kids about an underlying movement principle. Jenn picks elementary school and soccer and comes up with a plan (that Chris throws a few wrenches in).
In this special day drinking episode, Chris and Adarian discuss warmups and take questions from a hoppin' bar in Salem, Oregon. Simultaneously recorded with instagram live, being patient through the lulls will reveal some tremendous nuggets about his concepts and principles, such as up leg/down leg, p-squared, rotations, starts, and much more.
Jeremy Fein, Jenn Pilotti, and Chris Ruffolo discuss whether they believe coaches need coaches. Hard answers soften as multiple sides are presented.
Fanny and Zeynep combine their skillsets (play and pain/ problem solving) to create an engaging activity for 12-14 year olds. We discuss their process for figuring out needs/ wants, how they would handle the "I'm not doing it" crowd, and they offer up a collaborative game to fit the situation. [The Articulation Games is a series of teaching challenges. Video of these interactions can be found on the Thinkmovement YouTube page.]
Zeynep, Sam, and Chris discuss labels, problem solving, credibility, and trusting your intuition. We find that we all do the same thing and struggle with the labels in which to call it.
A conversation with Adarian Barr on being different, seeing the whole picture, crossing contexts, rotation, retraction, and global vs. local movements.
Gary, Jenn, Zeynep, Fanny, Chris, and Jeremy discuss on whether there is a distinction between life coach and personal trainer. We get into ideas of psychologists on gym floors, sensory educators, client responsibility, language bias, autonomy being bad for business, and how it's hard to find the right words to translate and/or communicate what it is that we do.
Audio from a zoom class asking kids how they know what they need. Split between being told and figuring it out on their own, this translates into blindly accepting vs. being skeptical and asking questions. The first step in the process of getting what you need.
Chris and Zeynep recap finding's that have helped curb (cure?) Chris's incontinence issues. [See 'A Session with Zeynep: Magic Breathing on thinkmovement.net]. The key was not in studying the pelvic floor, but the above xiphoid. Altering rib position at rest created space for air/ pressure to go elsewhere than down.
*Video with balloon visual can be found on our YouTube page (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz_ZtGRJmNBPxsDtTNthBhg)
Another from actual online Phys Ed. Care looks like many things to many people. What if it were talked about and discussed? Could it act as a learned and useful skill? We specifically talk about the selfishness dilemma and assumptions which lead to frustration. Care = spending time with and paying attention to. It is a form of active listening and adjusting.
Since school has started and I don't have any peer conversations to post, I thought I would give insight into how I'm starting with thinking and feeling in regards to Online PE. This discussion is asking kids why they seem to be more affected by depression and anxiety than their peers. (Self-reported).
Final segment taking a peek into the 2020 Thinkmovement Articulation Games. Team Coasts and Bay discuss their group project, and Cat Cowey and Rufus Nicoll give solo presentations on hypermobility and open handed listening, respectively.
Team Turkey talks about how they created a mental health + physical practice campaign, why they targeted women, and how doing less might be the answer to what ails us.
20min presentations from Sevinc Gurmen, Selen Gurmen, Jenn Pilotti, and Brandon Chien. Two challenges each. These audio tracks wil be the only public offerings of the event.
Michael Ryan and Chris Ruffolo welcome yoga teacher, IT analyst, non-profit leader, and bicycle enthusiast David Zundel to talk about where Phys Ed is lacking, the assumption of health and ability, and the opportunity that distance learning presents.
Kyle Pringle and Rufus Nicoll dive deep into ALL the holes, the trouble finding resources of a non-sexual nature that dig into these topics, and why being sensitive to what's happening in the pubic region can be as fundamentally significant as breathing.
Resource book Kyle recommended: Recognizing and Treating Breathing Disorders by Thomas Meyers (Anatomy Trains)
Physiotherapist Zeynep Seyran discusses her work with pelvic dysfunction as a whole and in working with the specific post-birth issues of Sevinc Gurmen, a pole athlete. The simplest solution is often difficult to implement because our bodies war with our egos. (Described 'magic exercise' to be posted to thinkmovement.net this Friday, July 24, 2020).
The episode that changed everything. We welcome 'outsider' Zeynep Seyran (physiotherapist who specializes in pelvic issues) to talk with Sevinc Gurman, Jenn Pilotti, Fanny Tulloch, Jenn Pilotti, and Chris Ruffolo about the need to keep pain a mystery.
An urban scholar and a woodsy forager agree to disagree on how the environments in which we reside shape us and form movement habits.
Jenn Pilotti, Gary Stockdale, and Chris Ruffolo discuss the barriers surrounding movement culture and how it's existence is a sifting and socio-cultural marker of privilege.
Dare Sohei takes the group toward sensing deregulation of the nervous system, the coping patterns we fall into, and ultimately, how one may right the ship to get back to calm and steady waters.
Jeremy Fein, Cat Cowey, Chris Ruffolo, and Gary Stockdale discuss the different worlds in which they reside in and how they put a cost value on their services. Alternative title is 'Chris gets a therapy session on her aversion to selling."
Part 2 of Mike and Rufus, the fisherman and the fighter go deeper into kittens vs. killers, definitions, needs, learning, and finding balance.
Gary Stockdale (aquatics/ locomotion), Cat Cowey (hypermobility), Chris Ruffolo (pain/ phys ed), Jereme Sanders (parkour), and Sevinc and Selen Gurman (pole) discuss the training identities one takes on while practicing their craft, from sexy to fearless.