Plate V
Movement is something I practice, not just study.
Movement is not a separate interest sitting beside the rest of my training — the medical specialty, the fascial and visceral work, and the work with the nervous system and with emotion all deal with how a body organises itself. Below is where that has gone in my own practice.
Current practice
- Ki Aikido
- Chen Taiji and traditional Yang style
- Bagua
- Zhineng and Daoyin Qigong
- FRC
- Motorcycling
Previously
- Weightlifting — Romanian national vice-champion, 2022
- West Coast Swing
- Bachata
- Salsa
- Contact improvisation
- Canto
- Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
- Ashtanga and Bhakti Yoga
- Basketball
- Swimming
- Cycling
- Hiking
- Rock climbing
Practicing across such different disciplines has given me a direct experience of very different qualities of movement: strength and mobility, coordination and balance, stillness and flow, effort and relaxation, structure and improvisation.
I don’t believe a practice needs to be something I have personally done in order to be useful to a patient. My own experience gives me a broad reference point, but my recommendations are guided by what may be useful for the individual person, their body, their goals and their context.
The aim is not to find one “correct” way of moving. It is to help each person develop a more capable, adaptable and comfortable relationship with their own body.
