Results for: "Sensorimotor Learning"

Restoring Through Practice

This VS will explore the Baseworks Movement Principle: active stillness., utilizing breath to release tension, and how to promote good sleep. The objective, intention, awareness, and the way in which you guide yourself can make a huge difference.

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acupuncture model with needles in the meridians.

Self-Regulation Wake-Up Call

How one approaches a practice is a key to building a self-sufficient fallback tool to reset across any circumstance. The secret is to re-discover and develop the ability to tune in to what is appropriate across the randomness of life.

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Asia Shcherbakova and Satoko Horie performing a center of gravity transfer movement practice application

When Hips Lie About Symmetry

Evolution wired human brains for: (1) survival, (2) tool-making/manipulation, (3) efficiency to avoid perceptual bottleneck. As a result, we are typically very good at knowing where our head is (so that we do not hit this very important part against something) and where our hands are (so that we can manipulate objects efficiently), but the

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Patrick Oancia walking beside student who is layinmg on the floor after learning something challenging. Both Patrick and the students are light heartedly laughing!

Dismantling the Archetypes

The image of what a proficient practice outcome looks like is often represented with an element of aesthetic awe. Getting to any level of maximum proficiency however is always preceded by a lot of micro ah-ha moments combined with a failure or two. And they are often taken for granted. The reality is that the

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Satoko Horie in a kneeling position with a flexed spine reclining in a transition to another movement.

Rooting the Foundation for More Skillful Movement

We all have the ability to refine our movements in a way that allows us to better control the movements. Although there is a tendency to associate skillful movement with something exclusive to athletes, dancers, professionals immersed in movement, any well-learned movement is a basic skill that allows us to better interact with the space

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BASEWORKS ELEMENTS PRACTICE SESSIONS: TOKYO

Conducted every month, the 2nd and 4th Saturday mornings from 9:45-11:15 until July 3. Each session is facilitated by Baseworks certified instructors with a particular focus on progressively building a deeper understanding of the Baseworks Key Movement Principles through repetition and analysis.

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Patrick Oancia teaching a student in a blue room.

Physical Limitations as Learning Advantages

A physical practice most often works toward developing stuff like strength, flexibility, joint mobility and coordination. When some or all of these things don’t get immediately dialed in, anyone can be left feeling deficient. And sadly, from outside, we look at someone’s superficial level proficiency in any of these things as credible. What we don’t

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Asia Shcherbakova demonstrating a suspended Baseworks From in a large white room

Do More by Doing Less. Do Less by Doing More

When we reduce the intensity of muscular contractions and combine them with Micromovements, we increase the amount of sensory feedback from the muscles, engage finer muscle fibers, and have more attentional resources to allocate to our muscles without fatigue. At the same time, by engaging more muscles then necessary to perform a particular movement (and

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