STORIES
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Why your body won't switch off
Symptoms
Feeling like such?
Indecisiveness?
INSOMNIA
Sleep, or the lack of, seems to be a growing problem these days…
I have a good friend S who had a bad case of insomnia. After hearing me share about the various benefits of Rhythmic Movement Training International (RMTi), she asked if RMTi can help her sleep better.
RMTi movements help to regulate the nervous system.
After the first session, her sleep quality improved — Her sleep tracker charted a steady improvement. The duration of sleep also improved!
Two days later I get a text from S:
“My colleague claims that I have a glow these 2 days. Not sure if it's my hair cut. But I do feel calmer and happier today even though I thought I'll be upset and depressed after something that happened last night.”
“My colleague claims that I have a glow these 2 days. Not sure if it's my hair cut. But I do feel calmer and happier today even though I thought I'll be upset and depressed after something that happened last night.”
EASE OF MOVEMENT
When I first started learning the Rhythmic Movement Training (RMT) protocol, my first practice person was a 65-year-old friend of mine, K.
I asked him how he would like to improve his life… and he said: “I want to look younger!”
• Me: I can’t make you look younger… but I can help you feel younger!
• K: Ok!
K lives a very active life - windsurfing, golfing, etc. And he wants to be able to enjoy it to the fullest.
He had a tightness in his lower back that limited his reach when he bends over to touch his toes.
After doing some gentle rocking movements with him, he bend over reach increased by two inches!
What I didn’t know at that point in time is that he had Spondylolisthesis - a spinal condition that occurs when one of the vertebrae slips out of place onto the vertebra below it.
Said K: "I had to take anti-inflammatory and pain meds during the acute phase but after improvement, there was still some degree of stiffness and limited mobility.
Your exercises helped to soften the spasm that caused the stiffness and improve my range of motion. Less spasm means less pain also.”
POSTURE
Remember my friend S who had an insomnia problem?
One thing I like about RMT is that the benefits spillover to other areas of your life.
Even as rhythmic movements can help to regulate the nervous system, and help one cope with overwhelm...
It can also help release long term muscle tension & postural habits.
In the case of S, I noticed that her right upper back is more raised than her left upper back. (This was probably during our 7th session; I see S every fortnight.)
I took a photo just to show her, not expecting a dramatic before/after result.
After doing some isometric exercises with her, the muscle tension relaxed… and that raised part of her back flattened!
We were both amazed.