gary ward

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This podcast aims to empower listeners with HOPE that healing is possible when you know how. We discuss strategic tools addressing mindset, movement and emotional Health. 

I am your host, Marion McRae, a physiotherapist & movement addict on a mission to see the existing model of treating back pain evolve. The current model is broken. It focusses almost entirely on the physical body, neglecting the fact that we are all both thinkers and feelers. When the thoughts in our head, and the the emotions in our bodies are less than optimal, we fail to thrive. 

Our Guest for this episode is a man who I consider to be the "Leonardo da Vinci of Quality Movement" and his "Flow Motion Model" is the equivalent of da Vinci's Sistine Chapel. Gary observed loading pressures in feet whilst fitting ski boots for avid skiers on the slopes. His powers of observation and curiosity were so intense that he figured out some pretty "game changing" concepts for how we move through space. Since discovering his work, my personal approach to rehabilitation has completely changed and the purity of his model of motion is pure perfection in my eyes. Perhaps I am biased, but when you spend 5 days studying a foot and still walk away totally enthused by this one part of our anatomy, then clearly the teaching and the method are revolutionary.  

We discuss Gary's own injury history, how he created his model of motion and how it relates to back pain.  Including ; the relevance of foot pressures, why core work is not always useful, the futility of some standard rehabilitation protocols.   We discuss the role of movement efficiency for performance, but also for injury avoidance.  

Some Key Quotes - 

"If we are not aware of the things we can't do, we are only aware of the things we can do" = Consider Anatomy in Motion a Pattern Interruption for the Brain 

" You only have two legs" - why not load each one evenly ? 

"More access to Mobility creates Stability"  

Gary’s tools:

1.  Movement -  Anatomy in Motion - creating new opportunities for skeletal  re-organisation, learning new ways of moving gently, quietly and with curiosity to open and close joint spaces evenly throughout the spine. 

Gary’s Top  3 tips -

1.  Take ownership of your body, it's yours. 
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2.  Educate yourself about your body, and what it's habits are 
3.  Re-introduce to your body the movements it currently can't access

Links : 
Gary's Website https://findingcentre.co.uk/

If you resonated with any of today's conversations and think perhaps you may like to check out my website for more. 

Where to find Gary 

Anatomy In Motion Website 

https://findingcentre.co.uk

Facebook Personal Page 

https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=gary%20ward

Facebook Anatomy In Motion Page 

https://www.facebook.com/anatomyinmotion

Instagram 

https://www.instagram.com/garyward_aim/

All music, production & editing done by Gabe Kitzman & MK.BEATSX

Thoughts on Gary Ward podcast with Chris and James

Hey there and welcome to another episode of the weMove podcast.

Today we feature Gary Ward who was on our radar in Issue 1 of the magazine when we featured his book “What the foot” as an essential book to read for movement performance and health.

Fast forward 3 or 4 years and we're speaking to him person having been connected by our growing network of like minds.

Gary Ward is kind of a secret weapon in injury prevention, performance development and all around bodily health because Gary is interested in awareness and alignment. Awareness not only in the present sense but also awareness of our past.

Because tuning in to the events of our past can shine a light on how it has informed our present way of moving, living and being and with this awareness we have the potential to improve our alignment of our body and I think it goes much deeper and I believe it helps a line our body and mind and our spirit in order to to reach your potential.

Gary's credentials are working with some of the best football teams in the Premiership as well as various athletes and us regular folk. All starting life as a ski boot fitter in Chamonix. Who would have thought that those big stiff clunky boots would be the catalyst for working out how we can improve ourselves as human beings.

Chris has been working with one of his is students Dominic Koch for I think the last year now and has had great improvements albeit seemingly having to take a few steps back in order to move forward which reminds me of a great quote I had a great quote yesterday which was to “withdraw before making the jump” and I think there's something in that. 

We have got to go back into our past to clean things up and realign them in order for us to reach where we set our sights on, and I think that goes across sports performance, health, life, work, everything.

So enjoy this podcast , there are some really great ideas and insights from Gary. And if anyone's interested in ridding their body of the injuries that keep coming up for them its worth checking out what he does and his the methodologies Gary uses as part of his Anatomy in Motion methodology. I would certainly recommend it and from what I have seen and heard, it may well change the way you think and move and I'm pretty confident it will set you on a new path of achieving what you set out to achieve.