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 .
I became not hyper conscious of every movement but certainly far more aware of my posture in the various movements that I make . And I have to say that has continued not just for several days or weeks , but for several months after that single day of movement practice with you do , which I find remarkable and encouraging and has led me to start to incorporate some of those same movement practices into my daily routine . Needless to say it was a very special experience for me to get direct movement instruction from the luminary of movement io pal .
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 .
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 .
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 .
