/About Kinetic Quest Wellness:/ We're all on a journey of movement together, and sometimes there are things we wish we could do better -- or at least, with less pain. ​Embark on your quest of self-discovery today, and discover the latent prodigy in you, which will help you move more easily and efficiently! I believe in the latent prodigy, the genius, in all of us, and I know that by learning about how we move, we can find better ways to move and live. I want to share with you lessons that will help you learn something about yourself; I want to help you discover a potential and power in yourself, for yourself. Embark on these lessons as quests -- begin with curiosity, and openness ... and you will be rewarded with new options in movement. When we know what we are doing, how we are moving, we are free to choose new movement patterns -- and our world expands. The impossible can become possible, and the possible can become easy, graceful and powerful. Prepare to embark on a journey of self-discovery as you learn to move easily and freely with Kinetic Quest! Join me in working through personalized quests (individual, as well as group online and in-person classes) that will help you increase your awareness of your body and how it moves or doesn't move and develop new movement options, I am ready to guide you on your path towards optimal wellness and whole body movement. /About Awareness Through Movement®/ Awareness Through Movement® quests are individual adventures, conducted in a group. The students are guided by the verbal instructions of a certified teacher to make slow, gentle movements while paying close attention to specific parts of their body and their breathing. By paying attention to our bodies and our breath, and noticing how certain parts move more easily than others, what works and what doesn't seem to work, we increase our awareness of our own habits. Once we are aware of our movement and breathing habits, we can decide if they are helping us or causing us tension or pain. If they aren't helping, we can actively choose to use the new ways of moving and breathing we learn in the Awareness Through Movement® Quests.​ Awareness Through Movement® works with the nervous system to bring about change. For example, is the way I have always walked the reason I have knee pain? If so, it is time to learn a new way to move. To make changes to those movement patterns, we need the brain to learn new ways and choose them over the habitual movements that are causing unnecessary tension and/or pain. Awareness Through Movement® doesn't require you to be flexible, nor does it involve stretching or holding positions. It also doesn't involve any practice to perfect positions. Instead, we explore small, gentle and innovative movements to become aware of habits that may be causing us movement difficulties, inefficiencies, tension, or pain, while also learning new ways of moving. There is no need for regular practice of specific moves or intensive training to receive benefits. There are no repetitive movements and no physical conditioning is required. Even if you already feel great and that you are in peak form, you can still benefit from movement quests: you can learn to do what you already do well, more easily, with less effort, so there is energy left over to go even further. ​Students will often do the quests lying on the floor. But if they have pain and can't lie on the floor, they can do the quest on their bed or in a chair. The quests often have applications to specific functional movements: - getting out of a chair, - sitting down into a chair, - balancing over one leg more than another, - getting down to the floor, - changing from sitting to lying on the floor, - rolling over from your back to your stomach, - rolling over from your stomach to your back, - moving from lying to sitting on the floor, - getting up from the floor, - walking, and - walking up and down stairs. We all learned to do these activities as very young children. What we may not have learned though was how to make these movements easy, while using minimal effort. But it didn't matter, because we were young and strong and our method worked. Until it doesn't. With injury and/or age, these are often the movements that we start to lose. Once we feel we can't move freely and easily, we begin to limit our activities and our world becomes smaller and we become more fragile. Kinetic Quest wants to help people of all ages and abilities improve their mobility so they become free to move and breathe easily, effortlessly, without unnecessary tension and pain. This is accomplished by offering Awareness Through Movement® quests. These quests can be attended live, in Vernon, at Tidal Elements Healing Arts Studio, with classes at 9:30 AM on Thursday mornings, with a 9 AM class offered every 4th Monday. ATM Quests are also offered every day, at multiple times of day via Zoom, where you can join from your own home. Interested? Head to www.kineticquest.ca to learn more, claim your one-time free Movement Quest, and book an adventure to empower you and improve your movement today!

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