Your Relationship with Gravity

Phases of Gravity Training

Each person has their own unique body, history, injuries and process for learning. We will select, create and continuously adapt a bespoke approach specifically for you from a wide range of possible methods.

There is therefore no specific order or hierarchy to the phases of Gravity Training.

There is usually a trend from physical to less physical, external perception to internal awareness, movement to stillness.

Learn to Stand before you Walk

The initial goal is to learn how to stand with grace. This means standing poised with the absolute minimum of effort. It means allowing gravity to flow equally throughout your body without concentrating at any joint or muscle.

Any effort more than the bare minimum required to create this vertical dynamic balance is in fact simply you fighting yourself. Remember, gravity is constant and ubiquitously without change or favour. It is up to you how you respond.

In Gravity Training, we roll back our focus to the fundamental building block on which all movement systems are built. We take a step back from even the idea of 'Learn to walk before you run'.

Instead we arrive at: Learn to Stand before you Walk.

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8 Movement De-Construction

Investigation of the way you currently engage with walking, moving and standing. Deliberate exploration of the range of alternative untapped movement possibilities.

Injury & Pain Specific Exploration

We collaboratively diagnose and create intelligent, interesting movement strategies to address your existing injuries. Pain means increased sensitivity. We harness this to re-integrate the injured area with the rest of your body.

Movement Re-Construction

Through increased internal awareness and improved movement (as pain and injury are reduced) you build a library of intelligent, gravity-connected movement patterns.

Movement Miniturisation

Focus shifts from large external movement to emphasis on awareness and relaxed control of tension and forces throughout your body as you move. Movement is shared as a collaboration across your whole body rather than limited to specific joints.

Stillness Deconstruction

Standing still becomes an actively poised, gravity-connected and deeply relaxed state of readiness and awareness.

Breath

Your breath starts to naturally regulate and integrate with your consciously relaxed body.

Nervous System

You acquire conscious awareness of the state of your nervous system and ability to deliberately calm or excite it.

Emotional Intelligence & Awareness

Emotions are physiological events in your body involving a release of neurotransmitters and other chemicals.

You can control them about as much as you can control the weather.

However, with increased body awareness you can begin to feel and recognise these emotions and develop the capacity to control how you respond to and interpret them.

9 Interfacing

As you begin to Know Yourself you interact and interface more skilfully with the ground beneath your feet and with your fellow human beings.