Why Movement Matters

As the holidays approach, I start to feel like my energy is going in a million different directions. I'm in my to do lists, wrapping presents, planning events, batching content, organizing my schedule, preparing for visiting family, keeping the house tidy, finishing end of the year projects, and making sure that I'm still churning out bomb classes on the regular. It's a lot. And it doesn't help that my birthday is a week before Christmas.

It's in this rush that I start to lose sight of what's most important: feeling good in my body. All of my movement practices fall to the wayside. When we stop moving, entropy is a given. What we don't regularly make use of, the body stops expending energy to maintain it. That's when tension and tightness start to accrue in the body.

A dear friend of mine (hi Jill Modes!) likes to say that our body is the most important piece of technology we'll ever own.

Think about it: when we smash our phone screen, we're at the Apple Store the same day. When we tweak our low back or sprain an ankle, we tell ourselves we'll walk it off and learn to live our lives with little aches and pains.

What if we treated our bodies with the same reverence that we offer to our precious gadgets?