But for those of you that might not be ido portal is credited with being the world expert in all things movement . And the person who coined the term movement culture , which is the gathering in and around movement practices that span from sport to martial arts to dance . Gymnastics .
Having ITO on the podcast offered the unique opportunity to learn directly from him . And so rather than just sit in front of a couple of microphones , which we did , we also spent many hours doing movement practices . The first of which actually involved no movement .
It began by lying on the floor and IO gave me and Odelia , one of his colleagues instruction as to how to move out of a motionless state in very deliberate ways , as well as incorporating things like facial and eye movements , which felt very unusual . I confess , but quickly led to an expansion into other forms of movement that were dynamic and involved multiple people . You could call this dance or you could call this sport .
Gymnastics . I do and his colleagues have essentially combined all the different forms of movement that exist out there and expanded upon them to create patterns of movement that utilize all aspects of the nervous system and that can be incorporated not just into sport and dance , et cetera , but also into daily life . Having ITO on the podcast offered the unique opportunity to learn directly from him .
Um , my balance not being terrible , but certainly not being at a high level skill and certainly not having done these sorts of moving practices before I struggled quite a lot . But found that within each movement , practice at the point of struggle , there was often a breakthrough into getting it or suddenly feeling as if my body could perform the movements . Whereas a few moments before I couldn't , one of the more challenging drills , I guess you would call it or practices that IO put me through was one in which he would change the rules within the moments of movement .
