Some movement makes you sweat.
Some makes you stronger.
Some simply makes your body feel better when you’re done.
I’ve become increasingly interested in movement that does several of those things at once without beating the hell out of you in the process.
That’s one reason Qigong and Contracted Stretching have remained such a big part of what Peggy and I do.
They look very different.
Qigong is slow and flowing. You move, breathe, shift your weight and pay attention. It can look almost too easy from across the room.
Then you actually do it.
Balance gets involved. Coordination gets involved. Your legs are working. Your posture changes. And somewhere along the way you may notice you’ve stopped thinking about the seventeen other things that were bouncing around your head.
Contracted Stretching comes at movement from another direction.
Instead of simply pulling a muscle into a stretch and waiting, we use the muscle while it’s lengthening. There’s resistance. There’s strength. There’s control.
That’s …
