Select the best exercises

Being an Osteopath or manual therapist doesn’t keep you in good physical condition, it highlights the need for you to be in good condition.

Strength and flexibility. Alignment, balance and coordination. Stability, proprioceptive awareness and mobility. How well you integrate these to perform movements needs effective control. Not just motor control, but sensory-motor control, to continually respond to stimuli throughout a movement. And not just physical stimuli, as previous experience and expectations affect how you move, and your thoughts and emotions create an embodied experience. Maybe it could be time for a new experience…

Having a direct, first-hand experience of knowing how to move more skilfully will enhance the way you teach others. If you are an Osteopath or manual therapist you will then be prescribing from a place of authenticity, of knowing in the body.