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Anatomy in Motion Instructor, Rehabilitative Movement Specialist, Wilderness Junky. Un-IG AF. Geeky content, grandkid pics, and beautiful skies.

Fall in the Eastern Sierra… more specifically, F

Fall in the Eastern Sierra… more specifically, Fall in the hood.

Leaf peeping from the deck...

Leaf peeping from the deck...

I just love “then and now” photos…me with on

I just love “then and now” photos…me with one of my very BFFs Wumby.

Confession: the “now” photo is taken from our “groover” location😂. River runners will know what I mean, but for the rest of you a hint: 💩💩💩.

Here's to the next 17 years of adventures together!

I just love “then and now” photos…me with on

I just love “then and now” photos…me with one of my very BFFs Wumby.

Confession: the “now” photo is taken from our “groover” location😂. River runners will know what I mean, but for the rest of you a hint: 💩💩💩.

Here's to the next 17 years of adventures together!

Why I teach for AiM (Anatomy in Motion)… Total

Why I teach for AiM (Anatomy in Motion)…

Total rookie mistake this morning. I was in such a rush to get to the trailhead, I forgot to pack socks🤦‍♀️. So, I decided to take a chance and do this steep rocky hike in my flip flops  !

Well, it turned out to be just fine — neither foot/ankle pain nor instability while actually hiking, nor after the hike!! Honestly, I credit the AiM exercises I have been doing since 2014. So many conversations about what shoes we should wear, and this morning proved to me once again, as @garyward_aim always says, it’s not about the shoes, it’s about your foot mechanics. Thanks to AiM, my feet have both strength and mobility. And equally importantly, their joint motions are well integrated with the rest of my joints (knees, hips, spine, shoulders, etc.).

There is an intricate dance between all the joints in every footstep, including the 33 joints in each foot — timing and coordination: which joints move when, where (what direction are the joints moving in all three dimensions?), and how much. The Flow Motion Model, upon which the AiM Method is based, answers all these questions, for all joints, in each phase of gait. The exercises I have been practicing since 2014, have trained my joints, including the joints in my feet, to perform this intricate choreography.  

Please understand, I am not saying my mechanics are perfect – far from it! Simply, compared to where I was pre-AiM when I would never even have considered attempting this, my biomechanics are so improved, that I could in fact do this steep hike in flip flops no problem!  

And lest I sound like I am in a cult, you can ask Gary…I am probably his most annoying student as I question everything…it’s my nature. So, thank you Gary, and apologies for being such an annoying student, and now staff member😂.

Look for our in-person 2025 course schedule coming up soon! And if you are in Toronto (or want to travel to Toronto), you’re in luck – a couple of courses in 2024 with my fabulous colleague @monvolkmar ! @garyward_aim

#garywardsanatomyinmotion

Posted @withregram • @qasimrashid This Labor Day

Posted @withregram • @qasimrashid This Labor Day, some facts about economic injustice in America you won’t hear legacy media dare to mention. Nor will corrupt corporate bought politicians mention this.

We are suffering the worst wealth and income inequality since the Great Depression. And it’s even worse for BIPOC people and women. This is class warfare by billionaires against working people. It’s critical we stand united to demand economic justice. Stop defending billionaires. Start taxing them. #justice #LaborDay

Mom (left) is 90. Every single day she takes a wal

Mom (left) is 90. Every single day she takes a walk and does a 30-minute exercise program I made for her. In fact, when hospitalized with COVID last November, her biggest complaint was they wouldn’t let her do her exercises. After a few days in the hospital, a physical therapist showed up, and tried to give my mother the basic exercises they give the elderly – e.g. sit on the side of the bed and kick your leg 10 times. My mother asked: “can I show you what I do?” Once the physical therapist saw her program, she came back every day to learn it.

Mom still teaches and takes classes, and she walks to campus. Whenever I offer to help her lift anything heavy, she just looks at me with a cocked eyebrow with a look that says “are you joking…as if I need help.”😏

Mom’s friend (right) is 83. She doesn’t just garden, she landscapes. She moves really heavy rocks – lots and lots and lots of them. Her property is known in the neighborhood for its rock wall and rock lined pathways (years of work). She has also transplanted many ferns from the surrounding forest – lots and lots of them. Each transplant takes her 4 hours – the ferns are quite large, so there is much digging involved. Then there are the large fallen tree limbs she drags up the hill by herself💪. She also still edits an academic journal.

Mom’s friend has had foot issues, so of course I had to dip into my Anatomy in Motion (AiM) toolbox to help her with her (self-described) “very flat feet.” She made it clear, she has neither time nor the attention span for anything complicated, so the video is my 20 second version of an AiM exercise to re-supinate the foot, or lift the arch – I needed to find something she could clearly see and feel for buy-in. Sold.

Thanks again @garyward_aim for your amazing AiM Method! Helping old ladies like me and Mom (and now her friends) keep doing what we love!

#garywardsanatomyinmotion

Mom says thank you @garyward_aim! I gave my mother

Mom says thank you @garyward_aim! I gave my mother a rehab program,using Gary Ward’s Anatomy in Motion Method, which she still does religiously even though we are now one and a half years post surgery. The progress, I observe:

1️⃣ She now has better transverse plane opposition between the rib cage and the pelvis, or in plain English, her rib cage and pelvis now rotate an opposite directions, which is what we want to see.
2️⃣ she now has it better frontal plain motion in the pelvis, or in plain English, she now walks with a better Marilyn Monroe sashay, essential for shock absorption.

Go Mom! I am so proud of you

#GaryWardAnatomyInMotion, #AnatomyInMotion

Yes, that's my mother last night saying: you have

Yes, that's my mother last night saying: you have to promise this is the last celebration of the F-bomb 90th!

OK, this was the 4th celebration already this year. But bad news for Mom...tonight is the real party with the real cake!

We took Mom to the Berkshires in Massachusetts where she's been going every summer for many decades. Only this year, I had a crazy thought...let's invite the relatives and have a 90th birthday extended family celebration...who's going to come anyway besides our immediate family and kids and spouses? Well, to my shock and delight almost everyone said yes!!! So we decided to treat this almost as a destination wedding, and besides the actual birthday party tonight, we bought pizzas for last night, and will have a bagels and lox brunch tomorrow. It's the least we can so as so many relatives traveled and rented lodging to come for the celebration.

So, sorry Mom...one more celebration tonight with an even more full house (not everyone arrived yesterday, so we were only 18) and a bigger cake....we're not quite done with the F-bomb 90th.
😂

Congratulations to Lee Vining high school class of

Congratulations to Lee Vining high school class of 2024, all 8 of them. I love living in a small town… definitely one of my favorite nights of the year.

I feel so fortunate to call @juliewiebept one of m

I feel so fortunate to call @juliewiebept one of my primary influences since 2014! IMHO, she does not get the credit she deserves for being the trail blazer she is. Much of what she’s been teaching for well over a decade is now the mainstream party-line in pelvic health, but that was not always the case. There was a time that all females were offered for pelvic health issues was Kegels, and in clinical practice, this is still often the case.

Julie has a new course out, Changing the Conversation. I confess, I have a knee jerk reaction when Julie puts out a new course, I purchase – extrapolating from my past purchases (all her online content targeting adult populations), I know the quality will be jaw dropping, worthy of many re-watches due to so many pearls. Social Media lends itself to black and white dichotomous statements -- solution <xyz> will solve all your problems. In reality, working with the human body is so much more nuanced -- watch this clip.

She has a coupon code for a 20% discount applicable for all her online content through June 4 (FLOWERS20), but if you subscribe to her newsletter, there is a 30% discount!

I have only just started watching, and so far, she is living up to my very high expectations!

Visit juliewiebept.com to subscribe to her newsletter and purchase this course. NOTE: I highly recommend all her content as well as private mentoring. Anyone who knows me professionally knows, my mind is always abuzz with questions. I have done several private mentoring sessions with Julie, always showing up with a long list of questions (usually generated from watching her online content), and she NEVER disappoints. She answers with depth and clarity, always making sure to differentiate opinion based on ample clinical experience vs sourced research. The fact that she is such a lovely human is just icing on the cake. Thank you, Julie, for all you do!!!

Another Strawberry Music Festival on the books. As

Another Strawberry Music Festival on the books. As usual the jamming in the campground was as much a highlight as the music on stage. And look out world...we have another generation of twirlers. Check out my youngest grandson's moves -- I especially like the kick-your-brother dance step! Sound most definitely on!

@physionetwork, thank you for making so much (comm

@physionetwork, thank you for making so much (common) sense of the, at times, conflicting evidence! A simple, elegant, practical synopsis. Thank you for reinforcing the idea that there’s a fine line between eustress and distress — That Goldilocks space between enough and not too much load that we must find in order to effectively progress. I have definitely bookmarked this blog, and I highly recommend to my colleagues.

Thank you @drstreich!

Thank you @drstreich!

My poor husband…life with a movement specialist.

My poor husband…life with a movement specialist.

Half asleep this morning, I snuggle up next to him, wrap my arm around his shoulder, think to myself: “I love him so – wait, what!?!?! What did his scapula just do when he inhaled!?!? Is he over-recruiting his accessory muscles of respiration!?!? Oh, we need to work on that.”

My poor husband.🤦‍♀️😂

My grandsons have decided they love to cook! Yeste

My grandsons have decided they love to cook! Yesterday, we gave the parents a ski-date-day; they got to come home to lasagna and Cesar salad (homemade dressing and all) made by the kids w/ just a wee bit of supervision😉. The kids even made the shopping list, and did all the shopping -- I was just the wheels (to the store) and wallet.

So fun!

Now, I just need to adjust to their musical taste shift from Tears for Fears to AC/DC....somehow driving along singing Back in Black (on repeat at the top of our lungs) just doesn't do it for me like Everybody Wants to Rule the World🤦‍♀️ 😂

Happy 90th (!!!!!!!) birthday to my darling mother

Happy 90th (!!!!!!!) birthday to my darling mother. OK...that's a lot of photos, but 90(!!!!!) is quite the big deal and I think she looks AMAZING. When my father (her husband for 67 years) passed a few years ago, she joined something called Learning in Retirement for retired professors to take and teach classes. So, she is not only taking classes, she is teaching one as well!!! And she walks to her campus. Thankfully, she is slowing down a bit, so I can almost keep up with her now😂🤦‍♀️.

What a treat to spend time with my dear friend and

What a treat to spend time with my dear friend and mentor @garyward_aim. We made HUGE progress on a project we've been working on for a while. And in case you're wondering about the matchy matchy...no AiM doesn’t have a new uniform. Gary came from sunny warm Bali☀️, and I came from the mountains of California (7000')🌨️. One of us had enough down garments to share in a surprisingly cold Southern California😂

My 90-year-old mother, one year post hip replaceme

My 90-year-old mother, one year post hip replacement says: "thank you @garyward_aim." She used Anatomy in Motion exercises to rehab from a hip replacement. She loves her program so much, when I offered to update her exercises she declined. She does her AiM exercises daily, even a year later. #garywardsanatomyinmotion

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