Rehabilitation Tips & Tricks (1/2 Day workshop).

Course Details

Date and Time: Sunday, 13th October, 2024. 9am – 1pm
Location: 47 Silverton Drive, Ferntree Gully, Victoria 3156 Cost: $25.00 (G.S.T. Included)
For more information and to book a place (numbers limited to 8): contact Paul on 0417 110 755 or email paulturner@iprimus.com.au Morning tea provided.

What is this workshop about?

This short workshop provides an opportunity to come together to learn about and practice some of the basic principles of self help and rehabilitation from and postural and exercise oriented perspective.  I call this an outside-in approach in contrast to my other self healing workshop with looks at healing from and inside-out perspective.   We are going to cover some of the basic building blocks to helping set your body up to move and function more efficiently.  It’s not about QUANTITY and doing more advanced exercise programs but rather about QUALITY’ making sure that the exercises you are doing are done well, with good quality and control and in a way that the whole body is in a balanced state and working together for the well-being of the whole.  Mostly it will be about exercising with ‘AWARENESS’; walking with awareness, breathing with awareness, stretching and strengthening with awareness and making sure the whole body is involved in a balanced integrated way.

By following some simple principles, I will help you notice which areas/muscles/ tissues you are using and which you are not; what you have control over or not, what is overactive, what is underactive and what is balanced, etc.  Knowing all of this and making sure the basics are covered well you will be better set up to progress to more advanced exercises and also the make sure your life is headed towards self-healing and not further decline.   This also helps set up healthy function on many other levels of the human mechanism and may thus may help over time support recovery from a wide range of health issues.  People with chronic health issues for example, rarely if ever perform these exercises well, but when learned, they do help set up healthier health outcomes.  We start simple so this workshop is suitable for beginners and those with challenging health issues but also, even people who have been exercising for years (e.g. yoga, sports) may benefit, especially to refine or polish their practice.   I have found for example that clients who are quite proficient with exercises, still may often miss some of these essential elements and so will benefit.   Thus, the exercises we will cover are the fundamental ones that clients need to perform well in order to improve long term health.

Basically we will spend some time making sure you are doing some basic exercises important to your health properly.   The depth to which we go depends on the group.

Why is this healing needed?

If you watch many people just walking along out in the streets its not hard to see that most people are not using their own bodies efficiently.  Arms and legs are wiggling around but the trunk/core are doing nothing quite often.   Its no wonder people have gut issues, back problems, various aches and pains and so on.  Also, people are so focused on doing routine exercises (like a prescription), sport, gym etc but don’t necessarily check to make sure the rest of the whole body is stabilising and supporting the exercise properly.  For example, a person may stretch the hamstrings without realising that the hamstrings are tight because there are more primary issues through the low back or pelvis.  Thus, more beneficial effects would happen in the legs when stretching the back and pelvis than by working on the legs themselves.   People may be trying to stretch the low back but the abdominal area (front and or sides) may not be activating/stabilising correctly, thus increasing the load on the spine and thus stretching on its own doesn’t do anything because the spine is doing all the work and other areas aren’t lifting their own weight. It can’t relax because its doing its job and everyone else’s too (SOUND FAMILIAR!).   Again, deal with an effect and it won’t go away.   Likewise with breathing, many people don’t breath all directions and instead may use the upper chest rather than expanding the low back/ abdomen. Or they may use the front of the body and not the back and then wonder why the back gets so tight.   The saying is ‘move it of lose it’.  Are we holistically doing our exercises (any exercises) effectively and with full awareness?    This is why I am offering this workshop    It gives you a chance to explore what you are doing and see if you can do it better.

Our goal with this workshop (as with the self healing one from inside out) will be ‘TO HEAL OURSELVES SO WE CAN SPREAD HEALTH INSTEAD OF DISEASE’.