WORKSHOP
THE HUMAN FOOT
How good feet help you move with grace, joy and competence
The foundation of all standing Asanas is the feet. These strong and complex structures, contain 26 bones, 33 joints (20 of which are actively articulated), and more than a hundred muscles, tendons, and ligaments.
Healthy feet imply healthy hips and spine.
The average active person takes around 7,500 steps/day. In 80 years, you’ll have walked about 200 millions steps in your lifetime. Con-sidering all this, by taking care of our feet will we greatly benefit our quality of life, our daily movement and lessen the chance of injury in ankles, knees and hips.
In this workshop, we will:
- have a detailed look at the feet
- do different exercises to make them stronger, mobile, and resilient
- coordination games and tasks
There are no prerequisites, all you need is an open mind and an openness to play!
Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will.
Virgil SPIER
Former Olympic Athlete & Movement Researcher
Virgil is a former Elite and Olympic athlete from The Netherlands with over 30 years in track and field. After various international bouts as a decathlete, hurdler and sprinter he kept running into the same problem over and over again. Even though he should have been extremely fit and ready for everything he wasn't. He could lift heavy weights, sprint fast, jump high and have all types of high level abilities and yet he could not slowly walk for an hour, watch a movie in the theater or simply rest in a deep squat without pain.
How was it that he could do all the high intensity stuff but not the normal human stuff? It was because of this question he started to obsessively seek out the knowledge of several world renowned trainers, therapists and coaches to learn from them personally. In this search he first came in contact with what he now knows as the Movement Approach and it gave him so many insights that he decided to devote his life to it. Now he is attempting to truly define Movement in such a way that it can guide people to move with grace, joy and competence while never compromising on longevity.
